{"id":59319,"date":"2025-08-11T06:04:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59319\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T06:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:04:24","slug":"cal-raleigh-hits-mlb-best-45th-hr-mariners-win-7th-straight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59319\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Raleigh hits MLB-best 45th HR, Mariners win 7th straight"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE — Cal Raleigh<\/a> hit his major-league-leading 45th home run in a four-run first inning, and the Seattle Mariners<\/a> hung on for a 6-3 victory<\/a> over the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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Raleigh’s two-run shot came off Rays starter Adrian Houser<\/a>, before Eugenio Suarez<\/a> added a two-run single for the M’s in the first.<\/p>\n

Raleigh, who went 1-for-5, joins Ken Griffey Jr. as the only Mariners players to hit 45 home runs in a season, according to ESPN Research. Griffey did it 5 times.<\/p>\n

Cal Raleigh homered in all three games of Seattle’s series against Tampa Bay.\u00a0Alika Jenner\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Raleigh also moved into a tie with Johnny Bench (1970) at second all time for most homers by a catcher in a season. The Kansas City Royals<\/a>‘ Salvador Perez<\/a> belted 48 in 2021.<\/p>\n

Raleigh homered in all three games of the series.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s win was Seattle’s seventh straight, the longest active run in the American League. Josh Naylor<\/a> also homered for the M’s, who wrapped up a 9-1 homestand.<\/p>\n

Seattle starter Bryan Woo<\/a> (10-6) allowed three runs on seven hits over six innings with nine strikeouts. It was his 23rd start this season of six innings or more. Woo, who walked one batter, also tied the MLB record set by Hall of Fame pitcher Juan Marichal in 1968 for the most consecutive games at the start of the season pitching that long and also allowing two walks or fewer.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE — Cal Raleigh hit his major-league-leading 45th home run in a four-run first inning, and the Seattle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-59319","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\/59319","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=59319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}