ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh, who led the major leagues with 60 home runs last year, hit his first of the 2026 season Monday night following a 10-game drought.<\/p>\n
Raleigh\u2019s homer was pulled deep to right field against two-time Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom of the Texas Rangers to end a 12-pitch at-bat in the first inning. Raleigh fell behind 0-2, fouled off six pitches with two strikes and connected on a 99 mph fastball low in the zone.<\/p>\n
His homer was Seattle’s lone run in a 2-1 loss.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust trying to put the bat on the ball there and fight, don\u2019t punch out,\u201d Raleigh said. \u201cI was able to have a pretty long at-bat, saw some good pitches and put a good swing on that last one.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was the second-most pitches in an at-bat that ended with a Mariners homer. Ra\u00fal Iba\u00f1ez homered on the 13th pitch he saw in June 2013.<\/p>\n
According to Major League Baseball, it was both the most pitches ever delivered to Raleigh in a plate appearance ending in a hit and the most pitches ever thrown by deGrom during an at-bat ending in a hit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was just an incredible at-bat,\u201d Mariners manager Dan Wilson said, \u201cto battle all the way through like that and foul off as many pitches as he did and then finally put that perfect pitch into the right-field seats.\u201d<\/p>\n
Raleigh’s longest home run drought last season was eight games. He had two homers last season through 11 games, hitting No. 3 in his 14th game.<\/p>\n
Raleigh entered batting .132 this year with only one run scored. He nearly homered on Saturday against the Los Angeles Angels in the first inning, but the ball was caught above the wall by Jo Adell, the first of three potential homers the right fielder prevented in that game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh, who led the major leagues with 60 home runs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,78830,91552,53311,91488,91487,23681,202,196,85772,42094,942,200,30586,91551],"class_list":{"0":"post-238427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news","11":"tag-cal-raleigh","12":"tag-dan-wilson","13":"tag-jacob-degrom","14":"tag-jo-adell","15":"tag-mariners-cal-raleigh","16":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","17":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","18":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","19":"tag-product-31999-ap-online-baseball-news","20":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","21":"tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","22":"tag-product-40820-ap-washington-state-sports-only","23":"tag-raleigh","24":"tag-raul-ibanez"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}