{"id":168135,"date":"2025-09-25T10:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168135\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T10:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:03:09","slug":"cal-raleigh-hits-his-60th-home-run-of-the-season-becoming-the-7th-mlb-player-to-achieve-the-feat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168135\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Raleigh hits his 60th home run of the season, becoming the 7th MLB player to achieve the feat"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Cal Raleigh became the seventh player in major league history to hit 60 home runs in a season Wednesday night, launching two solo shots for the Seattle Mariners against the Colorado Rockies.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s crazy. Sixty is \u2014 I don\u2019t know what to say,\u201d said Raleigh, who leads the majors in homers. \u201cI didn\u2019t know if I was going to hit 60 in my life. Just tonight, what a way to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Batting left-handed in the first inning, the switch-hitting catcher connected off Tanner Gordon and sent a drive to right field that reached the top deck at T-Mobile Park for his 59th longball of the year. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like a movie,\u201d teammate Julio Rodr\u00edguez said of Raleigh\u2019s moonshot. \u201cI\u2019m just so grateful that he\u2019s on our team, that he\u2019s able to do what he does. He\u2019s so special, and I can\u2019t say enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then in the eighth, batting left-handed again, Raleigh hit No. 60 off Angel Chivilli<\/a>. Raleigh also had a two-run double in the second and finished with four RBIs to give him 125 this season, most in the American League. <\/p>\n

With a 9-2 victory,<\/a> Seattle clinched its fourth AL West title<\/a> and first since 2001.<\/p>\n

The only other players to reach 60 home runs in a season are Babe Ruth (1927), Roger Maris (1961), Mark McGwire (1998 and \u201899), Sammy Sosa (1998, \u201999, 2001), Barry Bonds (2001) and Aaron Judge (2022). <\/p>\n

It was the 11th multihomer game for Raleigh this year, tied with Judge (2022), Hank Greenberg (1938) and Sosa (1998) for the MLB record.<\/p>\n

With four games remaining in the regular season, Raleigh has a chance to pass Judge for the American League record. Judge hit 62 homers in 2022 to break the previous AL mark of 61 set by Maris in 1961. <\/p>\n

Raleigh\u2019s latest homers came four days after he surpassed Ken Griffey Jr.<\/a> for the franchise record with his 57th homer of the season. Griffey hit 56 in both 1997 and 1998.<\/p>\n

Raleigh also broke Mickey Mantle\u2019s previous MLB record<\/a> of 54 home runs by a switch-hitter that had stood since 1961. And the Seattle slugger has set a new standard for homers by a catcher<\/a>, eclipsing the 48 hit by Salvador Perez in 2021.<\/p>\n

Raleigh is four home runs ahead of Phillies designated hitter Kyle Schwarber<\/a> and six in front of Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you look at how he has done it and the position that he plays \u2014 I was telling somebody earlier today that when you come off the field, you\u2019re mentally and physically exhausted,\u201d said Mariners manager Dan Wilson, a former major league catcher. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd for him to do what he\u2019s done offensively and to do what he does behind the plate, I honestly don\u2019t think we\u2019ve seen this before. It\u2019s been incredible. I think he deserves the MVP, no question.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Cal Raleigh became the seventh player in major league history to hit 60 home runs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[465,34670,78580,49,496,48,20757,5731,4021,39234,2841,38896,21555,463,19281,83698,462,4310,38898,86595,3999,86596,470,482,82,2845,38897,3642],"class_list":["post-168135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aaron-judge","tag-angel-chivilli","tag-barry-bonds","tag-ca","tag-cal-raleigh","tag-canada","tag-co-state-wire","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-dan-wilson","tag-general-news","tag-julio-rodrguez","tag-ken-griffey-jr","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-mark-mcgwire","tag-mickey-mantle","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-raleigh","tag-roger-maris","tag-salvador-perez","tag-sammy-sosa","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-u-s-news","tag-wa-state-wire","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}