Well, you can throw out nearly everything that I covered in the Game Thread preview this afternoon. The Twins pitching has indeed been struggling, but they tossed their sixth shutout of the season in a brisk 5-0 win Friday night at Progressive Field.
The Indians were hot and the Twins have been stumbling since last weekend’s four game sweep in Minnesota, but tonight’s win brings the Twins back to 1.5 games behind first place Cleveland.
I’ve now seen Adelberto Mejia and he indeed does not appear to be much of a prospect. I was perusing Mejia’s preseason write-up in Fangraphs’ preseason prospect review which noted his “rotund” build and that his “body is completely devoid of projection”, but he pitched well enough over five shutout innings to pick up his second career win.