I've watched most of the pitches Gallardo has thrown this year, he hasn't been blasted. He's been dipped and dinged; the dude has allowed 6 doubles and 2 homers, and 2 of those doubles have been pop flys. At .370, he's allowed the 2nd lowest SLG% by Mariners starters. In fairness, he had a home run and a couple good plays made behind him, but that was in the plan. What wasn't in the plan was the .333 BABiP Yo is currently running on ground balls, 60 points above his career high.
I just want to be clear here, he's been unlucky, he's allowed one of the shortest average batted ball distances in the league (157 ft), and average to below average batted ball velocities on contact and has given up a .333 BABiP. Statcorner has Gallardo losing a career high 17% of his strikers I the zone and receiving a career low 5.1% of calls outside the zone. His competition hasn't been climate than any other starter, he's faced LAA, Houston, and Cleveland, and he's faced more LHH (77) than RHH (72). The home runs will increase once he, makes some starts outside Oakland, Cleveland and Seattle, but remember what I said about spending his career in parks that increased home runs while allowing a below average rate of home runs? The home run denial is a skill, he has a career rate of 9.5% HR/FB on the road, so 6.5% in Safeco is low, by a point, maybe a point and a half. Also, He's running a 3.33 FIP, a bloop double in Anaheim lead to 1 "earned" run, a botched double play lead to another, and the edge of Ben Gamel's glove lead to another the other night. Lucky he has not been.