DAILY MATCHUPS: Holland hosts the Royals

As a way to preview the day's games, the 2013 Daily Matchups column seeks to highlight the outliers or notable matchups on BaseballHQ.com's Starting Pitcher Report (also available as an 8-day scan). For more information on how to leverage the report, see our research article from 2012.

 

Today's schedule overview: Interleague play comes to an end for most teams on Friday with the exception of Toronto at San Diego. Every game except for Arizona at Chicago (2:20 PM ET) is at night. The highlight matchup today is in the NL Central, where Cincinnati and Pittsburgh will face off in hopes of catching up to St. Louis.

 

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  • Derek Holland (LHP, TEX) is showing this season why he's long been touted as a breakout candidate at...

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