sundin's lone mlb appearance came on wednesday, september 19, 1956, at briggs stadium against the detroit tigers. baltimore was already behind, 8–1, when sundin, three weeks shy of his 19th birthday, came into the game in the bottom half of the eighth inning. he faced two batters — tiger pitcher frank lary and harvey kuenn — and issued two bases on balls before he was relieved by billy o'dell. lary would later score an earned run charged against sundin (giving the baltimore pitcher an earned run average of infinity per baseball's statistics).