{"id":479946,"date":"2025-08-25T09:41:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/cal-raleigh-hits-two-home-runs-and-breaks-historical-record-among-catchers\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:41:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:41:40","slug":"cal-raleigh-hits-two-home-runs-and-breaks-historical-record-among-catchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/cal-raleigh-hits-two-home-runs-and-breaks-historical-record-among-catchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Raleigh hits two home runs and breaks historical record among catchers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<strong>Seattle<\/strong>.\u2014 The historic season of <strong>Cal Raleigh<\/strong> lived an unforgettable chapter this Sunday, when the catcher of the <strong>Seattle Mariners<\/strong> hit his <strong>home runs number 48 and 49<\/strong> of the campaign in the 11-4 victory over the <strong>Oakland Athletics<\/strong>, surpassing the Venezuelan <strong>Salvador P\u00e9rez<\/strong> and establishing a <strong>new home run record for a starting catcher<\/strong> in a single season.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/junior-caminero-se-declara-fiel-espectador-de-la-casa-alofoke\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/junior-caminero-se-declara-fiel-espectador-de-la-casa-alofoke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/junior-caminero-se-declara-fiel-espectador-de-la-casa-alofoke\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/junior-caminero-se-declara-fiel-espectador-de-la-casa-alofoke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Junior Caminero declares himself a loyal viewer of Casa Alofoke<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nRaleigh, who has played more than <strong>75% of his games as a catcher<\/strong>, left behind the mark of <strong>48 home runs<\/strong> that P\u00e9rez had achieved in 2021, establishing himself as the <strong>regular catcher with the most home runs in the history of Major League Baseball<\/strong>.\n\nThe first home run came in the bottom of the first inning, when Raleigh punished a fastball from <strong>Jacob L\u00f3pez<\/strong> at <strong>91.7 mph<\/strong> and sent it <strong>448 feet<\/strong>, his longest home run of the year, reaching the second floor of <strong>T-Mobile Park<\/strong>. In the second inning, he punished the same pitcher again, this time with a changeup that went <strong>412 feet<\/strong> against the scoreboard in left field. Both hits were for <strong>two runs<\/strong>, giving the Mariners an early lead and backing the pitching work of <strong>Logan Gilbert<\/strong>.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Once in a lifetime kind of stuff from Cal Raleigh!&quot;<br><br>Big Dumper earned a standing ovation from his <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Mariners?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Mariners<\/a> teammates and the Seattle crowd \ud83e\udd29 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xGLu7VjUlF\">pic.twitter.com\/xGLu7VjUlF<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/1959724541510373490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nAfter his second home run, Raleigh received a <strong>standing ovation<\/strong> from the fans, who chanted \u201c<strong>MVP<\/strong>\u201d in reference to his potential candidacy for <strong>Most Valuable Player<\/strong>. With this performance, Raleigh has <strong>39 home runs<\/strong> as a catcher and <strong>nine more<\/strong> as a designated hitter, reaffirming his position among the most powerful hitters of the season.\n\nThe next goal for Raleigh will be to approach the historical record of <strong>Mickey Mantle<\/strong>, who hit <strong>54 home runs<\/strong> in 1961, the most for a <strong>switch hitter<\/strong>. In addition, Raleigh has already surpassed <strong>Ken Griffey Jr.<\/strong> (1997) as the player with <strong>the most multi-home run games in a season<\/strong> in Mariners history, with <strong>nine games of two or more home runs<\/strong>.\n\nDespite an irregular second half of the season \u2014 batting just <strong>.202<\/strong> with an <strong>OPS of .709<\/strong> since the All-Star Game \u2014, Raleigh&#8217;s power production keeps him as one of the protagonists of the <strong>MLB 2025<\/strong> and a strong candidate for various individual awards.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle.\u2014 The historic season of Cal Raleigh lived an unforgettable chapter this Sunday, when the catcher of the Seattle Mariners hit his home runs number 48 and 49 of the campaign in the 11-4 victory over the Oakland Athletics, surpassing the Venezuelan Salvador P\u00e9rez and establishing a new home run record for a starting catcher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":479948,"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":[611,40231,39774,13766,40853],"class_list":["post-479946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20R4","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/cal.jpg_554688468.webp","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\/08\/cal.jpg_554688468.webp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479946","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=479946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}