Woo gets roughed up again, M’s lose to Royals 7-6

Recapping the game, I wrote : Was Woo bad or do we just shake it off? Let’s be real here, four home runs is a lot. And he was genuinely missing middle-middle pretty regularly—this wasn’t some Chicago wind storm or something.

But on the other hand, you can’t get too worked up about an off day from a guy who’s had so much consistency that he literally holds the franchise record for most consecutive 6 inning games to open a season. All I know for sure is that, for today, pulling him after three innings was the correct move. It’s a lot harder to shake off a second outing like this.

Facing the other Missouri team tonight, Woo at least made it through six this time, but surrendered six runs on 11 hard-hit balls while striking out just two. The trouble was mostly contained to his first and last innings. The Royals ambushed him in the first with a pair of leadoff singles setting up a ball off Cole Young’s glove and a Salvador Perez line drive.

Before you could blink, the score was 3-0 with a runner in scoring position and nobody out. Woo took a beat and mostly settled down from there. That runner scored, but it was on a water balloon into shallow left that Leo Rivas couldn’t track down while Randy Arozarena wasn’t even in the camera shot.