12-4 was the score, Seattle’s lucky it wasn’t more

Photo by Lawrence Iles/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesEmerson Hancock did his best.

That can be interpreted a few different ways, but the Seattle Mariners were clobbered 12-4 by the Milwaukee Brewers, the reigning NL Central champs, and ceded a second straight series to start the season at a 4-6 that looks far worse by many metrics. For Hancock, it was a second straight rough outing, despite in many ways executing almost perfectly on what he can bring to bear. For Seattle’s offense, it was another frustrating, meek afternoon punctuated only by a Julio Rodríguez laser in the first inning that stretched from a single to second base on an error, driven in by Jorge Polanco, and a late inning…