{"id":473207,"date":"2025-06-27T18:06:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T22:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/cal-raleigh-will-participate-in-the-home-run-derby-with-his-father-as-the-pitcher\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T18:06:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T22:06:55","slug":"cal-raleigh-will-participate-in-the-home-run-derby-with-his-father-as-the-pitcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/cal-raleigh-will-participate-in-the-home-run-derby-with-his-father-as-the-pitcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Raleigh will participate in the Home Run Derby with his father as the pitcher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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SEATTLE \u2014<\/strong> Seattle Mariners star catcher, Cal Raleigh<\/strong>, confirmed this Friday his participation in the T-Mobile Home Run Derby 2025<\/strong>, which will be held on the next July 14<\/strong> at Truist Park in Atlanta<\/strong>, as part of the Major League All-Star Game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may be interested in:<\/strong>Miguel Tejada will be inducted into the Latin Baseball Hall of Fame<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nRaleigh, who leads the Majors with 32 home runs<\/strong>, becomes the second confirmed player<\/strong> for the most anticipated power event of the summer, along with the Venezuelan Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr.<\/strong>, who will be the local representative of the Atlanta Braves.\n\nIn addition to the talent he will bring to the field, Raleigh will add an emotional component: his father, Todd Raleigh, will be the one to pitch to him during the competition<\/strong>, and his younger brother, Todd Jr., 15 years old, will be behind the plate receiving the pitches. \u201cIt will be a movie moment. Being able to experience this as a family is something I will never forget,\u201d expressed Todd Sr.\n\nThe player, originally from North Carolina and trained in the Atlanta metropolitan area, noted that participating in this scenario is “closing a circle.” Raleigh also hinted that he could bat from both sides of the plate during the Derby, something that only Adley Rutschman<\/strong> has done previously in the 2023 edition.\n\nWith his impressive first half of the season, Raleigh has set historical records for catchers and switch-hitters before the All-Star break, and is shaping up as one of the main candidates for the American League Most Valuable Player<\/strong>.\n\nRaleigh will be the eighth Mariners player<\/strong> to participate in the Derby, following in the footsteps of legends like Ken Griffey Jr.<\/strong>, Edgar Mart\u00ednez<\/strong>, Alex Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong>, and Julio Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong>. Griffey remains the only one of the group to have achieved the feat of winning the event, and Raleigh hopes to become the first catcher<\/strong> to win it in history.\n\nThe event, which promises a unique mix of excitement, power, and family nostalgia, will be a central part of the All-Star Game Week<\/strong>, culminating on July 15<\/strong> with the Midseason Classic at the same Truist Park.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE \u2014 Seattle Mariners star catcher, Cal Raleigh, confirmed this Friday his participation in the T-Mobile Home Run Derby 2025, which will be held on the next July 14 at Truist Park in Atlanta, as part of the Major League All-Star Game. You may be interested in:Miguel Tejada will be inducted into the Latin Baseball […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":473208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[39781,611,40231,13766,40853],"class_list":["post-473207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-mlb","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1Z6n","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/01jfyb93ydk2gcw8jzg9.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/01jfyb93ydk2gcw8jzg9.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}