{"id":162869,"date":"2025-09-17T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/162869\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T09:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:36:07","slug":"cal-raleigh-breaks-mickey-mantles-record-for-most-homers-by-switch-hitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/162869\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Raleigh breaks Mickey Mantle&#8217;s record for most homers by switch hitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Cal Raleigh hit a pair of homers to match the Seattle season record set by Ken Griffey Jr., Dominic Canzone belted a career-best three homers of his own, and the AL West-leading Mariners routed the fading Kansas City Royals 12-5 on Tuesday night for their 10th consecutive win.<\/p>\n<p>Raleigh\u2019s first homer, a 419-foot shot off Michael Wacha while batting left-handed, gave him 55 on the season, breaking the record for a switch-hitter set by Yankees great Mickey Mantle in 1961. <\/p>\n<p>Raleigh\u2019s second shot, a 425-footer off Daniel Lynch IV as he batted right-handed, tied the club mark that Griffey set during the 1997 season and matched the following year.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.45661451;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37133074\" width=\"859\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cal-Raleigh.jpg\" alt=\"Cal Raleigh celebrates after hitting a homer i the first inning, the first of two of his long balls in the Mariners' 12-5 blowout win over the Royals on Sept. 16, 2025. He now has 56 homers on the season.\" class=\"wp-image-37133074\"  \/>Cal Raleigh celebrates after hitting a homer in the first inning, the first of two of his long balls in the Mariners\u2019 12-5 blowout win over the Royals on Sept. 16, 2025. Scott Sewell-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>It was the 10th multihomer game this season for \u201cThe Big Dumper\u201d and the 20th of Raleigh\u2019s career. <\/p>\n<p>The All-Star catcher also doubled in the first inning and finished 3 for 5 with three RBIs, giving him 118 on the year.<\/p>\n<p>Canzone homered in the second inning, the fifth and the ninth on a hot, humid, late-summer night in which balls were sailing out of spacious Kauffman Stadium. <\/p>\n<p>The designated hitter also had a pair of singles to finish 5 for 5 with four RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>Carter Jensen hit the first two homers of his big league career for Kansas City. <\/p>\n<p>It looked as if he had a third before his long fly ball in the eighth inning bounced off the right-field wall for a double.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.51032448;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37133111\" width=\"891\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-515036176.jpg\" alt=\"Mickey Mantle\" class=\"wp-image-37133111\"  \/>Mickey Mantle previously held the record for home runs in a season by switch-hitter. Bettmann Archive<\/p>\n<p>Logan Gilbert (5-6) allowed two runs on six hits over 5 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings while striking out five for Seattle. <\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old righty, who also pitched well against the Royals in June, has allowed just seven earned runs total over his last five starts.<\/p>\n<p>Wacha (9-12) returned after missing his last scheduled start because of a stint on the seven-day concussion list.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>He allowed a season-high seven runs on nine hits over 2 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings for Kansas City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Cal Raleigh hit a pair of homers to match the Seattle season record set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[77371,363,369,481,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-162869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-mickey-mantle","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york-yankees","11":"tag-seattle-mariners","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}