Welcome to the rotation, Zach Plesac. Here’s your complimentary outstanding start followed by a total offensive letdown. Don’t feel bad, it’s a ritual as old as time, or at least 2013. Corey Kluber, Carlos Carrasco,
Mike Clevinger, Trevor Bauer — everyone before you has had to be dramatically let down by their offense at least once. Now you, too, can count yourself among these legends as tonight you were left out to dry in the best game of your young career.
Part of me wonders what Francisco Mejia is up to these days. I hope he’s having a better time than his trade counterparts in Cleveland.