Cal Raleigh Home Run Watch: After two more on Tuesday, will the Big Dumper hit 60?

The Big Dumper conscionable near the gait again!

In what has go a regular occurrence during Cal Raleigh's unthinkable 2025 season, the Seattle Mariners catcher added 2 much location runs to his historical full connected Tuesday -- and passed different MLB fable successful the process.

Raleigh has already surpassed the anterior grounds for location runs by a catcher and by a switch-hitter and joined the prestigious 50-homer club, and who could hide his Home Run Derby triumph earlier this summer?

What grounds could Raleigh acceptable next, however galore location runs volition helium decorativeness with and conscionable however awesome is his season? We've got it each covered.

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Raleigh's existent pace

Raleigh is present astatine 56 location runs and connected gait for 60 with 11 games remaining.

The American League grounds is 62, acceptable by Aaron Judge successful 2022, and determination person been conscionable 9 60-home tally seasons successful MLB history.

Who Raleigh passed with his latest location run

With his 55th and 56th location runs connected Tuesday, Raleigh passed Mickey Mantle (yes, you work that right: The Mick himself) for the astir successful a play by a switch-hitter.

Raleigh and Mantle (who reached the people twice) are the lone switch-hitters successful MLB past with 50 agelong balls successful a azygous play -- good up of Lance Berkman and Chipper Jones, who each deed 45 successful their astir prolific location tally season.

Who Raleigh tin drawback with his adjacent location run

The adjacent milestone up for Raleigh is passing Ken Griffey Jr.'s Mariners franchise grounds of 56, which Raleigh tied with his two-homer time connected Tuesday. That's a fig Griffey reached doubly -- successful some the 1997 and 1998 seasons.

Raleigh has already joined Griffey arsenic the lone Mariners with 50 location runs (or adjacent 45) successful a season. Raleigh is besides the archetypal Seattle slugger with 40 homers successful a play since Nelson Cruz successful 2016.

Raleigh's 5 astir awesome feats of 2025

Most location runs successful a play by a switch-hitter

With his 55th location run, Raleigh knocked Mickey Mantle, who deed 54 successful 1961, from the apical spot. Breaking Salvador Perez's record of 48 location runs by a superior catcher understandably got a batch of attention, but beating Mantle's people is arguably much awesome fixed however agelong the grounds stood and the Hall of Famer's stature.

One of the champion months ever for a catcher

In May, Raleigh deed .304/.430/.739 with 12 location runs and 26 RBIs. Only 4 catchers person deed much location runs successful a calendar period and lone 8 with astatine slightest 100 sheet appearances produced a higher slugging percentage. Raleigh was astir arsenic bully successful June, hitting .300/.398/.690 with 11 location runs and 27 RBIs, giving him two-month totals of .302/.414/.714 with 23 location runs and 53 RBIs. In 1 blazing 24-game agelong from May 12 to June 7, Raleigh deed .319 with 14 location runs.

Reaching 100 runs and 100 RBIs

Raleigh is sitting connected 101 runs scored portion starring the American League with 115 RBIs. Only 8 different superior catchers person reached 100 successful some categories successful the aforesaid play -- Mike Piazza did it twice, successful 1997 and 1999, and helium and Ivan Rodriguez were the past catchers to bash it successful '99. Of the different catchers, 7 are successful the Hall of Fame (Piazza, Rodriguez, Mickey Cochrane, Yogi Berra, Roy Campanella, Johnny Bench and Carlton Fisk). The lone objection is Darrell Porter, who reached the milestone with the Royals successful 1979.

Tying Ken Griffey Jr.'s nine grounds for location runs

Griffey deed 56 location runs for the Mariners successful 1997 and 1998, starring the AL some seasons and winni...