Friday\u2019s 6-2 win<\/a> that moved the Seattle Mariners within one victory of their first World Series trip. \u201cBut, glad I got enough of that one.\u201d<\/p>\nCal Raleigh watches his solo home run leave the yard during the eighth inning of Seattle\u2019s Game 5 home win over the Blue Jays on Oct. 17, 2025. AP<\/p>\n
Seattle heads back to Toronto for Game 6 on Sunday night with a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven ALCS. Eugenio Su\u00e1rez hit a tiebreaking grand slam later in the eighth.<\/p>\n
Raleigh, a switch-hitting catcher who led the major leagues with 60 home runs during the regular season, has four more in the playoffs.<\/p>\n
He also showed his Gold Glove-winning defense. With the Mariners ahead 1-0 in the fourth, the Blue Jays loaded the bases with one out against starter Bryce Miller only for Raleigh to turn the second 2-3 grounded into double play in postseason history.<\/p>\n
Ernie Clement tapped the ball onto the plate. Raleigh grabbed the ball with a foot on the plate for a forceout, then threw to first.<\/p>\n
Cal Raleigh awaits the throw and forces Nathan Lukes out at home and throws to first base to complete a double play during the fourth inning of the Mariners\u2019 Game 5 home win over the Blue Jays. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Mariners manager Dan Wilson started the only previous 2-3 GIDP in postseason history, against the Yankees in Game 2 of the 2000 ALCS.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just a heads-up play,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cI don\u2019t think anybody could have placed it any better than where it ended up, and then for him to be able to pounce on that, touch home plate, and then get the easy double play at first.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bryan Woo (left) warms up with Mariners manager Dan Wilson before batting on Oct. 18, 2025 in preparation for Sunday\u2019s Game 6 on the road against the Blue Jays. AP<\/p>\n
Toronto went just 2 for 11 with runners in scoring position and was held to two runs after scoring 21 over the previous two games.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what he\u2019s done all season long, both sides of the ball,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cWe saw him make that play today, a lot of nice blocks today, and then to be able to deliver offensively like he did. It\u2019s just, again, in my mind, an easy MVP choice and today was just another perfect example of that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 Cal Raleigh\u2019s 64th home run of the year wasn\u2019t his longest. Just the most satisfying. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[127913,64,63,591,64736,5162,85,5161],"class_list":{"0":"post-224548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-alcs","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-playoffs","13":"tag-seattle-mariners","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224548","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=224548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}