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CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0By the time Emerson Hancock\u2019s first start of the 2025 season ended, he\u00a0had recorded just two outs.<\/a><\/p>\n

Once Hancock\u2019s inaugural outing of 2026 concluded, though, a few very different figures lit up the scoreboard at T-Mobile Park.<\/p>\n

Six innings.<\/p>\n

No runs.<\/p>\n

And most impressive \u2014 no hits.<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know<\/p>\n

Hancock joined F\u00e9lix Hern\u00e1ndez as the only Mariners pitchers to strike out nine or more in a hitless outing of at least six innings
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Guardians rookie Chase DeLauter lined a clean single leading off the seventh against reliever Cooper Criswell to break up Seattle\u2019s bid for a combined no-hitter
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Across the board, Hancock\u2019s velocity was down relative to last season, too<\/p>\n

Not only did the Seattle Mariners starter pick up his first win of the season Sunday in the\u00a0team\u2019s 8-0 victory over the Cleveland Guardians,<\/a>\u00a0Hancock also proved to himself in a very concrete way that he has made sizable steps forward since the spring of 2025.<\/p>\n

After all, Hancock won a spot in the Mariners\u2019 rotation in large part because of\u00a0a spring training injury to Bryce Miller<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cA year ago, right now, we\u2019re having a completely different conversation. Things went completely different,\u201d Hancock said with a laugh. \u201cBut, I think that\u2019s just part of this game. And you\u2019re going to struggle, there\u2019s going to be ups, there\u2019s going to be downs.\u201d<\/p>\n

There were no \u201cdowns\u201d to speak of Sunday, at least not according to the 30,800 fans on hand who rewarded the sixth overall pick in the 2020 amateur draft with a standing ovation after he worked a 1-2-3 sixth inning.<\/p>\n

In the process, Hancock joined F\u00e9lix Hern\u00e1ndez as the only Mariners pitchers to strike out nine or more in a hitless outing of at least six innings. Hern\u00e1ndez did so when throwing a perfect game in 2012.<\/p>\n

Hancock\u2019s nine strikeouts were a career high, a figure buoyed in large part by a four-seam fastball that generated nine swings-and-misses. Paired with a sweeper that Hancock spent a lot of time refining in the offseason, Hancock\u2019s fastball kept Cleveland\u2019s hitters off balance all evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re playing the speed game and the break game,\u201d Hancock said. \u201cIt\u2019s something slower, it\u2019s something that is breaking a lot through the zone. And if you can throw it in the zone, it can help a ton. And then the heater for me, I\u2019m just trying to see it as the mask and just kind of rip it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hancock effortlessly maneuvered through Cleveland\u2019s lineup. The only baserunners the 26-year-old right-hander allowed came when he walked Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez in the first inning and hit CJ Kayfus with a fastball in the sixth.<\/p>\n

But after six innings and 97 pitches, manager Dan Wilson decided Hancock was done, and there was no consideration to seeing if he could produce the seventh no-hitter in Mariners history.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat he did today was really good execution,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cReally hard to take a guy out after no hits, six innings. But, pitch count was where it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guardians rookie Chase DeLauter lined a clean single leading off the seventh against reliever Cooper Criswell to break up Seattle\u2019s bid for a combined no-hitter.<\/p>\n

Across the board, Hancock\u2019s velocity was down relative to last season, too. He and Wilson chalked that up in part to it being early in the season. It didn\u2019t help that the temperature hung in the low 40s all game on a chilly late afternoon in the Pacific Northwest<\/p>\n

As much as the elements may have shortened Hancock\u2019s start, though, they only added to its brilliance. From the outset, third baseman Brendan Donovan was impressed with Hancock\u2019s willingness to attack hitters, evidenced by the right-hander throwing first-pitch strikes to 12 of the 19 batters he faced, as well as not allowing a batted ball against him to leave the infield.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like he had confidence in everything that was coming out of his hand,\u201d Donovan said. \u201cMixing speeds, locations, high levels. Kind of in and out, down, everything seemed to be working for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such an assessment could not be applied to Hancock\u2019s first start of the 2025 season, one he ultimately finished coming out of the bullpen as Seattle\u2019s starting rotation got healthier. But if Hancock can spin the ball the way he did Sunday more frequently, Wilson will have tougher decisions to make beyond whether he should keep the righty in the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat an incredible performance by Emerson Hancock,\u201d Wilson said. “It was impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0By the time Emerson Hancock\u2019s first start of the 2025 season ended, he\u00a0had recorded just two outs.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[41445,2722,2724,852,363,3,6454,90616,48239,7739,99,452],"class_list":["post-554008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-cleveland","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cleveland-guardians","tag-ohio-cleveland-top-stories","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}