Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh became the seventh player in Major League Baseball history — and the first catcher ever — to hit 60 home runs in a single season, blasting two solo shots Wednesday night in a 9-2 win over the Colorado Rockies that clinched Seattle’s first American League West title since 2001.
Batting left-handed in the first inning, the switch-hitter launched a towering drive off Tanner Gordon into the top deck at T-Mobile Park for his 59th homer of the season. In the eighth, again from the left side, he connected off Angel Chivilli for No. 60. Raleigh finished 3-for-5 with four RBIs, also adding a two-run double in the second inning.
Raleigh now joins an elite list of sluggers to reach 60 home runs in a season: Babe Ruth (1927), Roger Maris (1961), Mark McGwire (1998, 1999), Sammy Sosa (1998, 1999, 2001), Barry Bonds (2001), and Aaron Judge (2022). He is also the first Mariner to accomplish the feat, surpassing Ken Griffey Jr.’s long-standing franchise record of 56, set in both 1997 and 1998.
It was Raleigh’s 11th multi-homer game of the year, tying the MLB single-season record shared by Judge (2022), Hank Greenberg (1938), and Sosa (1998). With four regular-season games remaining, he trails Judge’s American League record of 62, set in 2022, by just two homers.
Raleigh currently leads MLB in home runs, holding a four-homer cushion over Philadelphia’s Kyle Schwarber and a six-homer edge on Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani.
The win secured Seattle its fourth AL West crown in franchise history and its first in 24 years. Despite the division title, the Mariners remain the only team in Major League Baseball never to appear in a World Series.
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