{"id":57521,"date":"2025-08-10T11:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T11:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/57521\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T11:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T11:25:06","slug":"raleigh-hits-mlb-best-44th-homer-and-rodriguez-connects-twice-as-streaking-mariners-top-rays-7-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/57521\/","title":{"rendered":"Raleigh hits MLB-best 44th homer and Rodr\u00edguez connects twice as streaking Mariners top Rays 7-4"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Cal Raleigh launched his major league-leading 44th home run, Julio Rodr\u00edguez went deep twice and the surging Seattle Mariners defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 7-4 on Saturday night after retiring Ichiro Suzuki\u2019s No. 51 jersey.<\/a><\/p>\n

Seattle extended its win streak to six, the longest active run in the American League, and moved within a half-game of Houston atop the AL West. <\/p>\n

After hitting the go-ahead homer in the eighth inning Friday night,<\/a> Raleigh delivered another three-run shot Saturday to put Seattle up 5-1 in the third. Rodr\u00edguez connected on the next pitch from starter Joe Boyle (1-2), who lasted 3 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

Rodr\u00edguez also hit a two-run homer in the first, a 436-foot drive, and has 23 home runs this season.<\/p>\n

Logan Evans (6-4) allowed three runs in 5 1\/3 innings before four Mariners relievers finished a five-hitter. Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz worked a scoreless ninth for his 27th save.<\/p>\n

Brandon Lowe homered for the second consecutive game in the first inning for Tampa Bay. Junior Caminero hit his 32nd homer in the sixth, a three-run shot off Caleb Ferguson.<\/p>\n

Cole Young scored on a wild pitch in the Seattle sixth to make it 7-4.<\/p>\n

Key moment<\/p>\n

Young\u2019s walk and Randy Arozarena\u2019s single set up Raleigh\u2019s homer to give Seattle a four-run cushion.<\/p>\n

Key stat<\/p>\n

J.P. Crawford\u2019s 17-pitch at-bat against Rays reliever Mason Englert in the sixth tied for the longest by a Mariners player since pitch tracking began in 1988. After hitting 12 foul balls, Crawford popped out to shortstop \u2014 and still received a standing ovation.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay RHP Adrian Houser (6-3, 2.54 ERA) opposes RHP Bryan Woo (9-6, 3.02) in the series finale Sunday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Cal Raleigh launched his major league-leading 44th home run, Julio Rodr\u00edguez went deep twice and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[16821,47320,64,63,4034,24617,47315,6099,31393,8103,2755,8100,47314,47313,47316,47318,27756,47319,591,6784,47317,5653,5162,85,1190,8105,3601],"class_list":{"0":"post-57521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-adrian-houser","9":"tag-andrs-muoz","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-brandon-lowe","14":"tag-bryan-woo","15":"tag-cal-raleigh","16":"tag-caleb-ferguson","17":"tag-fl-state-wire","18":"tag-florida","19":"tag-ichiro-suzuki","20":"tag-j-p-crawford","21":"tag-joe-boyle","22":"tag-julio-rodrguez","23":"tag-junior-caminero","24":"tag-logan-evans","25":"tag-mason-englert","26":"tag-mlb","27":"tag-mlb-baseball","28":"tag-raleigh","29":"tag-randy-arozarena","30":"tag-seattle-mariners","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","33":"tag-wa-state-wire","34":"tag-washington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57521","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=57521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}