Raleigh makes more HR history; M's atop AL West

SEATTLE -- Cal Raleigh tied Mickey Mantle's play grounds for astir location runs by a power hitter with his 54th, and the Seattle Mariners extended their winning streak to 9 by routing the Los Angeles Angels 11-2 Sunday to instrumentality sole possession of the American League West pb for the archetypal clip since June.

Batting left-handed, Raleigh deed a first-pitch homer to left-center disconnected Kyle Hendricks for a 2-0 pb successful the archetypal inning.

Mantle deed his 54 homers for the 1961 New York Yankees.

Raleigh's homer was his record-setting 43rd this play arsenic a catcher, 1 much than Atlanta's Javy López successful 2003.

In his 5th large league season, Raleigh had a erstwhile precocious of 34 homers past year. He is 2 shy of tying the Mariners' single-season grounds held by Ken Griffey Jr. (1997, 1998).

George Kirby matched his vocation precocious with 14 strikeouts arsenic the Mariners completed a four-game expanse and won for the 20th clip successful their past 23 location games.

The Mariners (82-68) moved 1 crippled up of Houston (81-69) astatine the apical of the division, winning 9 successful a enactment for the archetypal clip since a 14-game streak from July 2-17, 2022, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

The Mariners had not been unsocial successful archetypal spot since earlier play connected June 3.

It's the latest successful a play that Seattle has been successful archetypal spot since 2001, erstwhile the Mariners won their past part title. That 23-year drought is the longest progressive streak successful the American League.

ESPN Research and The Associated Press contributed to this report.