{"id":159903,"date":"2025-09-22T00:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T00:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/159903\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T00:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T00:28:07","slug":"mariners-c-cal-raleigh-launches-mlb-leading-58th-home-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/159903\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners C Cal Raleigh launches MLB-leading 58th home run"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON — Seattle Mariners<\/a> star Cal Raleigh<\/a> hit his MLB-leading 58th home run on Sunday night, a two-run shot in the second inning against the Houston Astros<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Mariners were up 5-0 after a grand slam by J.P. Crawford<\/a> in the second when Raleigh, who was batting left-handed, connected off Jason Alexander<\/a> for his home run to right field to extend the lead.<\/p>\n

The shot comes a night after he passed Ken Griffey Jr. for the franchise’s single-season home run record with his 57th homer. Griffey hit 56 in both 1997 and 1998.<\/p>\n

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Raleigh has also surpassed Mickey Mantle’s MLB record of 54 home runs by a switch-hitter that had stood since 1961. He has also set the MLB record for homers by a catcher this season, eclipsing the 48 hit by Salvador Perez<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n

Raleigh is five home runs ahead of Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani<\/a> and Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber<\/a>, who are tied for second place with 53 each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON — Seattle Mariners star Cal Raleigh hit his MLB-leading 58th home run on Sunday night, a two-run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-159903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}