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ANALYSIS: San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Derek Holland has a 69.2% is the contact rate osince June 20. While he has a 3.92 ERA this season, he has a 2.72 ERA since the beginning of June and is striking out 11.05 batters per nine since June 1 as well. A strand rate of 81.8% since 6/1 has led to a drop in ERA. A 29.3% line drive rate and 38.6% hard hit rate are troubling, but, with Jeff Samardzija being reevaluated, Holland will return to the Giants rotation and could possibly get two outings in Week 17.
He has allowed two total earned runs in his last 16 innings and struck out 19 batters during that span. Starts in San Diego and Arizona are not particularly difficult as well. The Padres are 28th in runs scored (392 runs in 106 games) and tied for first in team strikeouts (997) this season. Arizona is sixth in team strikeouts (955). While they are 10th in team wOBA (.329) against southpaws, Holland has not been terrible against the DBacks this year: 0-1 with a 4.61 ERA and 17 strikeouts in 13.2 innings of work.
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