Raleigh hits HRs No. 55, 56 to tie franchise mark

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Cal Raleigh broke Mickey Mantle's grounds for homers by a switch-hitter and tied the Mariners grounds acceptable by Ken Griffey Jr. erstwhile the Seattle prima deed his 55th and 56th of the play successful consecutive at-bats against the Royals connected Tuesday night.

Raleigh doubled successful his archetypal at-bat connected a hot, humid nighttime successful Kansas City. He came up again successful the 3rd inning and, batting left-handed against Michael Wacha, fouled disconnected a changeup and took a sinker for a shot earlier Raleigh sent a hanging curveball 419 feet implicit the right-field obstruction for his 55th location tally of the season.

That broke the switch-hitter people acceptable by the Yankees prima successful 1961, which Raleigh had tied against the Angels connected Sunday.

The All-Star catcher was backmost up successful the 4th inning Tuesday night. This time, batting right-handed against left-hander Daniel Lynch IV, Raleigh sent the archetypal transportation helium saw 425 feet to straightaway halfway for his 56th homer.

Griffey acceptable the Mariners grounds erstwhile helium deed 56 homers during the 1997 play and matched the people the pursuing year.

After some of the location runs, Raleigh got a lasting ovation from a tiny radical of Mariners fans down the visiting dugout astatine Kauffman Stadium. Many Royals fans, who had turned retired to ticker a nine fading from playoff contention, besides applauded the location runs. It was Raleigh's 20th vocation multi-homer crippled and his 10th this season.

There person lone been 9 60-homer seasons successful the majors. Aaron Judge had the past erstwhile helium deed 62 for the Yankees successful 2022.