{"id":58741,"date":"2025-08-10T08:33:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T08:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58741\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T08:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T08:33:17","slug":"raleigh-hits-mlb-best-44th-homer-and-rodriguez-connects-twice-as-streaking-mariners-top-rays-7-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58741\/","title":{"rendered":"Raleigh hits MLB-best 44th homer and Rodr\u00edguez connects twice as streaking Mariners top Rays 7-4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Cal Raleigh launched his major league-leading 44th home run, Julio Rodr\u00edguez went deep twice and the surging Seattle Mariners defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 7-4 on Saturday night after <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mariners-ichiro-suzuki-jersey-retired-5978df142bc526e72a2622248e4de8e9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:retiring Ichiro Suzuki\u2019s No. 51 jersey.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">retiring Ichiro Suzuki\u2019s No. 51 jersey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seattle extended its win streak to six, the longest active run in the American League, and moved within a half-game of Houston atop the AL West.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>After hitting the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/rays-mariners-score-2fc63411eb8b3cb2e3d7a89197da4581\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:go-ahead homer in the eighth inning Friday night,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">go-ahead homer in the eighth inning Friday night,<\/a> Raleigh delivered another three-run shot Saturday to put Seattle up 5-1 in the third. Rodr\u00edguez connected on the next pitch from starter Joe Boyle (1-2), who lasted 3 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Rodr\u00edguez also hit a two-run homer in the first, a 436-foot drive, and has 23 home runs this season.<\/p>\n<p>Logan Evans (6-4) allowed three runs in 5 1\/3 innings before four Mariners relievers finished a five-hitter. Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz worked a scoreless ninth for his 27th save.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Lowe homered for the second consecutive game in the first inning for Tampa Bay. Junior Caminero hit his 32nd homer in the sixth, a three-run shot off Caleb Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Cole Young scored on a wild pitch in the Seattle sixth to make it 7-4.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Young\u2019s walk and Randy Arozarena\u2019s single set up Raleigh\u2019s homer to give Seattle a four-run cushion.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>J.P. Crawford\u2019s 17-pitch at-bat against Rays reliever Mason Englert in the sixth tied for the longest by a Mariners player since pitch tracking began in 1988. After hitting 12 foul balls, Crawford popped out to shortstop \u2014 and still received a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay RHP Adrian Houser (6-3, 2.54 ERA) opposes RHP Bryan Woo (9-6, 3.02) in the series finale Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luke Olson, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Cal Raleigh launched his major league-leading 44th home run, Julio Rodr\u00edguez went deep twice and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[15288,9012,14098,38657,49,496,28236,48,38652,1443,38653,38656,16629,18286,3989,38654,38655,462,478,470,82,28240,480],"class_list":["post-58741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-adrian-houser","tag-american-league","tag-brandon-lowe","tag-bryan-woo","tag-ca","tag-cal-raleigh","tag-caleb-ferguson","tag-canada","tag-cole-young","tag-houston","tag-ichiro-suzuki","tag-j-p-crawford","tag-joe-boyle","tag-julio-rodriguez","tag-junior-caminero","tag-logan-evans","tag-mason-englert","tag-mlb","tag-randy-arozarena","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58741","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=58741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}