{"id":93141,"date":"2025-08-24T21:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/93141\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T21:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:09:07","slug":"cal-raleigh-hits-48th-49th-hrs-to-set-mlb-record-for-catchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/93141\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Raleigh hits 48th, 49th HRs to set MLB record for catchers"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE — Mariners<\/a> slugger Cal Raleigh<\/a> hit his major-league-leading 48th and 49th home runs on Sunday against the Athletics, breaking the single-season record for catchers set by Salvador Perez<\/a> with the Kansas City Royals<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n

The switch-hitting Raleigh, batting from the right side, homered off A’s left-hander Jacob Lopez<\/a> in the first and second innings. Both home runs were two-run shots.<\/p>\n

It was the 39th and 40th long balls Raleigh has delivered as a catcher this year. He has nine while serving as a designated hitter.<\/p>\n

Perez hit 15 home runs as a DH in 2021, and 33 at catcher.<\/p>\n

Only four other players in big league history have hit at least 40 homers in a season while primarily playing catcher: Johnny Bench (twice), Roy Campanella, Todd Hundley and Mike Piazza (twice). Bench, Campanella and Piazza are Hall of Famers.<\/p>\n

Raleigh launched 27 homers in 2022, then 30 in 2023 and 34 last season.<\/p>\n

A first-time All-Star at age 28, Raleigh burst onto the national scene when he won the All-Star Home Run Derby in July. He became the first switch-hitter and first catcher to win the title. He is the second Mariners player to take the crown, after three-time winner Ken Griffey Jr.<\/p>\n

Raleigh’s homers gave him 106 RBIs on the season. He is the first catcher with consecutive seasons of 100 RBIs since Piazza (1996-2000), and the first American League backstop to accomplish the feat since Thurman Munson (1975-77).<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE — Mariners slugger Cal Raleigh hit his major-league-leading 48th and 49th home runs on Sunday against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-93141","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\/93141","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=93141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}