{"id":871659,"date":"2026-08-26T03:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/871659\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T03:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:26:09","slug":"slugger-cal-raleigh-extends-homer-streak-to-four-at-bats-and-ties-mariners-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/871659\/","title":{"rendered":"Slugger Cal Raleigh extends homer streak to four at-bats and ties Mariners\u2019 record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Seattle slugger Cal Raleigh homered in his first at-bat against the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday night and tied a Mariners\u2019 record with homers in four consecutive at-bats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Raleigh led off the second inning against Philadelphia\u2019s Aaron Nola with a 362-foot shot to right field for his 18th homer of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The four-homer streak matches the Seattle record set by Mike Cameron on May 2, 2002.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was Raleigh\u2019s first at-bat after the switch-hitting catcher hit three homers in a 9-2 win against the Phillies on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Raleigh had struggled all season after finishing as the runner-up for the AL MVP last year with 60 home runs. He entered the series against Philadelphia with a .159 batting average and 14 homers. On Monday, he was 3 for 3 with a walk between the first and second homers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Mariners\u2019 team record for homers in a two-game span is five, set by Edgar Martinez on May 17-18, 1999. The last Seattle player to hit four home runs over two consecutive games was Kenji Johjima on June 24-27, 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Daimon Eklund, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Seattle slugger Cal Raleigh homered in his first at-bat against the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-871659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871659","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=871659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}