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Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh takes a curtain name after hitting his sixtieth dwelling run of the season towards the Colorado Rockies.
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Raleigh entered the night time with 58 dwelling runs, already effectively past his earlier profession excessive of 34 from final season. The switch-hitting catcher was batting left-handed within the first inning when he blasted a 93-mph fastball from Tanner Gordon 422 toes into the higher deck behind proper area for dwelling run No. 59.
Then, with two out within the backside of the eighth inning, chants of “M-V-P” have been already raining down on Raleigh as he stepped to the plate, batting left-handed once more, towards Rockies reliever Angel Chivilli.
One pitch later, the at-bat was over and Raleigh had made historical past. He ripped a 98-mph fastball from Chivilli 389 toes into the proper area stands to hitch Babe Ruth (1927), Roger Maris (1961), Sammy Sosa (1998, 1999, 2001), Mark McGwire (1998, 1999), Barry Bonds (2001) and Aaron Choose (2022) as the one gamers to hit at the least 60 dwelling runs in a season.
Raleigh rounded the bases, then took a curtain name in entrance of an ecstatic crowd that included his dad and mom, Todd and Stephanie Raleigh.
It was the eleventh time this season Raleigh has hit a number of dwelling runs in a recreation, which ties the MLB report held by Hank Greenberg (1938), Sosa (1998) and Choose (2022). Raleigh, who additionally had a two-run double within the second inning, completed with 4 RBIs to offer him an American League-leading 125 this season.
Along with Raleigh’s private achievements Wednesday night time, the Mariners clinched their first AL West title since 2001.
“It’s crazy,” Raleigh mentioned after the sport. “Sixty is, I don’t know what to say. I didn’t know if I was going to hit 60 in my life. And then I did it like this. Just tonight, I mean, what a way to do it.”
Raleigh has 4 regular-season video games left to attempt to break Choose’s AL report of 62 dwelling runs, set in 2022. The all-time MLB report is 72, set by the San Francisco Giants’ Bonds in 2001.
