{"id":175799,"date":"2025-09-28T17:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/175799\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:07:07","slug":"mariners-cal-raleigh-joins-johnny-bench-in-one-more-piece-of-mlb-catching-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/175799\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners&#8217; Cal Raleigh joins Johnny Bench in one more piece of MLB catching history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/news\/mariners-cal-raleigh-joins-johnny-bench-mlb-catching-history\/1793ffda3d821d52b544599e?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mariners&#039; Cal Raleigh joins Johnny Bench in one more piece of MLB catching history;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Mariners&#8217; Cal Raleigh joins Johnny Bench in one more piece of MLB catching history<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cal Raleigh has set all sorts of catching records in the 2025 MLB season for the Seattle Mariners.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, he joined Johnny Bench in one more piece of history.<\/p>\n<p>This was done simply by Raleigh getting to the plate a lot, thanks to his usage as a DH on the days he&#8217;s not catching.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Raleigh surpassed the 700 plate appearance mark for the season.<\/p>\n<p>Bench, in 1974, is the only other catcher to get over 700 plate appearances in a season with at least 75% of games played as a catcher, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GaryHillJr\/status\/1972137173475598469\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to Gary Hill Jr.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">according to Gary Hill Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, it doesn&#8217;t feel like as much of an achievement as the rest of what Raleigh has done.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>But in another way, it&#8217;s just as remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>Catching is the hardest thing to do day in and day out on a baseball diamond. It&#8217;s physically taxing.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Raleigh could hit so well while catching most days was remarkable in its own right.<\/p>\n<p>Add in the fact that he almost never missed a game, and it&#8217;s even more impressive.<\/p>\n<p>There really has never been a catching season as good as the one Raleigh is putting the finishing touches on this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>When the postseason begins, Raleigh will be in there every day hoping to do his thing.<\/p>\n<p>The Mariners wouldn&#8217;t mind if Raleigh kept joining Bench in the history books, because Bench knew how to win in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/news\/mariners-julio-rodriguez-1st-player-seattle-franchise-history-combo-record\/561259256183dd7eb6551aa5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:No Mariners player has ever done what Julio Rodriguez just did;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">No Mariners player has ever done what Julio Rodriguez just did<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mariners&#8217; Cal Raleigh joins Johnny Bench in one more piece of MLB catching history originally appeared on The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,496,48,89591,21557,18286,462,37039,470,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-175799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-cal-raleigh","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-catching","12":"tag-johnny-bench","13":"tag-julio-rodriguez","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-plate-appearance","16":"tag-seattle-mariners","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175799","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=175799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}