“There’s still a lot of baseball left. We’ve obviously said that a lot this year, and it’s frustrating,” Woo said. “Obviously, we’re not playing the way we want to play, but still a lot of baseball left.”

Woo’s seasonlong road woes continued.

In nine starts at home, Woo is 6-0 with a 2.20 ERA. In 11 starts on the road, he is now 1-7 with a 6.52 ERA.

“It’s baseball. It really it tests you,” Woo said. “I feel like we’ve had a good amount of games over the last month or six weeks that we’ve played some good baseball. It’s just not going our way. We’ve hit balls hard right at guys. Made some really good pitches and balls are just finding holes.

“But that’s part of a 162-game season. … You just have to continue to ride the wave of the season.”

The Rangers tagged Woo for three runs on three extra-base hits in the first inning. Ezequiel Duran drove in the first run when he sent a soft line drive into the right-center gap — 85.4 mph off the bat — past a diving attempt from Luke Raley, the M’s center fielder Saturday (Julio Rodríguez was the designated hitter).

In the second inning, the Rangers scored two more runs on three straight hits to build a commanding 5-0 lead.

Woo needed 25 pitches to get through the first inning, and 21 more in the second inning.

“I just have to do a better job of executing with two strikes, especially those first couple innings,” Woo said. “Then just some bad luck, obviously. A couple balls that just found holes. ‘Rales’ goes all out for that ball and it doesn’t go away … but I certainly I still take full responsibility for how it went.”

The Rangers were ready to hit Woo’s four-seam fastball — and they rarely missed. Of the 18 balls the Rangers put in play against Woo, nine registered at 95 mph or greater (officially categorized as “hard hits” by MLB standards).

Given how poorly things have been going for the Mariners’ offense, a five-run deficit immediately appeared insurmountable.

And, indeed, it was.

Nathan Eovaldi, the Rangers’ veteran right-hander, shut down the Mariners over seven strong innings, allowing just three hits and one run, with one walk and eight strikeouts.

The top six hitters in the M’s lineup combined to go 1 for 19, and that one hit was a Randy Arozarena single with two outs in the ninth.

Crawford, back in the lineup after missing the previous four games because of a sore left wrist, drove in the M’s only run with a triple down the right-field line in the fifth.

“We’ve got to try to keep our heads up, get these next two games because they’re really important,” Crawford said. “We’ve got to come out tomorrow, put a fire under our ass and be ready to play.”

Up next

Today’s game will match starters from Stetson University: Rangers RHP Jacob deGrom (7-6, 3.76 ERA) against Mariners RHP Logan Gilbert (8-6, 3.38).

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