{"id":590275,"date":"2026-04-07T01:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590275\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T01:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:31:09","slug":"seattle-mariners-catcher-cal-raleigh-hits-first-hr-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590275\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh hits first HR of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"56d60582-088f-6848-5180-1fb04440cf87\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sea\/seattle-mariners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Mariners<\/a> catcher <a data-player-guid=\"6c27dcb5-a741-d526-b5ac-f3988e288a70\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41292\/cal-raleigh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cal Raleigh<\/a>, who led the major leagues with 60 home runs last year, hit his first of the 2026 season Monday night following a 10-game drought.<\/p>\n<p>Raleigh&#8217;s homer was pulled deep to right field against two-time Cy Young Award winner <a data-player-guid=\"f17ac700-ad8b-0057-ed5b-a5199e7bad9a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32796\/jacob-degrom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob deGrom<\/a> of the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4fa2cf46-09fc-255f-74a1-2a8857b0e671\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tex\/texas-rangers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers<\/a> to end a 12-pitch at-bat in the first inning. Raleigh fouled off six pitches with two strikes and connected on a 99 mph fastball.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48403630\/mlb-2026-season-ranking-most-fun-teams-phillies-dodgers-mets-red-sox-yankees\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775525469_408_r1639138_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His longest home run drought last season was eight games.<\/p>\n<p>Raleigh entered hitting .132 this year with only one run scored. He nearly homered on Saturday against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"053868c7-8bff-5edb-3cb6-f5490f33ef99\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/laa\/los-angeles-angels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> in the first inning, but the ball was caught above the wall by <a data-player-guid=\"27484320-8709-db12-711e-c9ce30507d8c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40854\/jo-adell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jo Adell<\/a>, the first of three potential homers the right fielder prevented in that game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas &#8212; Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh, who led the major leagues with 60 home runs last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-590275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590275","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=590275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}