Cal Raleigh and Dominic Canzone each homered, and Julio Rodríguez and Josh Naylor combined for five hits. But the Mariners ultimately could not overcome a 13-hit day for the Athletics.Hancock entered the day as perhaps the story of the early season. Through four starts, he had a 2.75 FIP, 24.2% walk rate, and a top 20 WAR among qualified starting pitchers .

It’s been a pleasant surprise for the Mariners, who have been desperate for some depth beyond their top-five starters. In fact, Hancock so far in 2026 has looked like much more than depth. He made a ton of changes over the offseason, as Michael Rosen pointed out for FanGraphs last week, including tweaking his repertoire and fundamentally changing how he throws the ball.For the most part, Hancock looked like the new and improved version of himself on Monday.

He continued to pound the zone with fastballs at 95 mph, issuing zero walks. And he continued to expand the zone with sweepers to righties and the changeups to lefties. He racked up 11 whiffs on 51 swings and three strikeouts.Again, for the most part, it worked.

Hancock scattered a few singles, stranding a couple early, generating a double play in the fourth, and even picking off Lawrence Butler in the fifth. Again, with no walks, those were the only runners who reached base against him.Unfortunately, three others reached base and just kept running. In the fourth, Hancock threw an up and in fastball to Carlos Cortes leading off the inning — the pitch didn’t even catch the zone — but Cortes was sitting on it and turned it into the right field seats.

In the sixth, Hancock threw a middle-middle fastball to slugger Nick Kurtz, who crushed it out to center. Hancock threw the same pitch to the next batter, slugger Shea Langeliers, who also crushed it to center. The back-to-back homers tied the game at 3-3 and ended Hancock’s day.Your browser does not support the video tag.

Download the video.Here’s the locations of those homers:In the end, the stat line for Hancock was five innings, seven hits, three strikeouts, no walks, and three homers. That’s not a good line. And it could have been worse.

He also gave up a lot of hard contact in addition to the homers. Here’s an out he was fortunate to get, a sharp liner to center to leadoff the game, that seemed to knuckle and forced Julio to make an acrobatic play:Your browser does not support the video tag. Download the video.Still, this looked like the “good” version of Hancock we’ve seen so far from this year.

The velocity was there. The movement was there. And the whiffs were there. Is it good to throw a pair of middle-middle fastballs to two of the best sluggers in the league?

No. But this was a lot different from Hancock’s poor outings from the past three years.Jose Ferrer was next in line in the sixth after the back-to-back homers. He immediately gave up a hard single against the shift to Cortes.

He got the next two batters to fly out, but a broken bat single that Leo Rivas couldn’t quite get to and a hit by pitch loaded the bases. Ferrer then got Lawrence Butler to hit a hard chopper right back to the mound. Ferrer reached up and snagged it over his head, and after a bit of scampering to find the ball, he realized it was in his glove, tossed it to first, and escaped the inning Your browser does not support the video tag.

Download the video.Matt Brash worked an uneventful seventh inning against the top of the order to keep the game tied at 3-3.By the eighth, however, Dan Wilson seemed to be out of relievers. Andrés Muñoz and Gabe Speier had each pitched on back-to-back days, and Eduard Bazardo had thrown a lot of pitches recently as well. Wilson went with Casey Legumina, who wasn’t very good.

He gave up a leadoff double, followed by a single and walk to load the bases. For a moment, it looked like he might escape with minimal damage after a sac fly to make the game 4-3. But a single from Butler plated the remaining runners to give the A’s a 6-3 lead, and eventually, the win.It was overall a good day for the Mariners offense.

In the bottom of the first, Raleigh flipped a homer the other way to open the scoring. Julio followed with a rocket single up the middle, and Naylor doubled him home to make it 2-0.Naylor continued to swing at just about every pitch he saw Monday and this time picked up three hits, including his first two doubles of the season. He’s now up to a 54 wRC+ in 2026, which isn’t great