Before this game Gallardo was 10th among starters with 10+ IP in BABiP at .375 in spite of allowing the 159th weakest contact of 179 pitchers with 25+ balls put in play, he's allowed more than his share of flyners and 27-hoppers so far this season, and had bad luck on his hard contact before today (An .818 BABiP is 4th highest for 2017, near a 2nd place Felix Hernandez at .875). Play with the leaderboards in Baseball Savant for an hour or 7, it's pretty mesmerizing. Yovani has allowed impressively poor contact to this point (He's in the bottom 20% for Launch Angle, Barrel % per Batted Ball, he's allowed the 9th lowest batted ball velocity on line drives and fly balls)and gotten pretty unlucky, so I think the performance today was coming. I don't expect the 7 strike outs to occur too often, he did feast a bit on the A's 9-Hole Right Fielder, and I think he got the better side of the coin flip tonight on batters swinging at pitches just out of the zone. I think he's going to settle into a Tim Hudson-esque routine, around 6 K/9, just under 3 BB/9, and HR/9 under .9 with a GB% above 50%. He's using a change up more and more, in his career, he's rarely used it in 10% his pitches in individual games, and he's eclipsed that twice this season already; it seems to be better than previous seasons.