{"id":480079,"date":"2025-08-26T08:15:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/raleigh-first-mariner-to-reach-50-home-runs-since-ken-griffey-jr\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T08:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:15:19","slug":"raleigh-first-mariner-to-reach-50-home-runs-since-ken-griffey-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/raleigh-first-mariner-to-reach-50-home-runs-since-ken-griffey-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Raleigh first Mariner to reach 50 home runs since Ken Griffey Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n\n\n<strong>Seattle<\/strong>. \u2013 Cal Raleigh of the Seattle Mariners became the first player for the club to reach <strong>50 home runs in a season<\/strong> since Ken Griffey Jr., who achieved it in 1998.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/junior-caminero-dispara-dos-jonrones-y-alcanza-39-en-la-temporada\/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Junior Caminero hits two home runs and reaches 39 in the season<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nHe arrived in the <strong>9-6 victory over the San Diego Padres<\/strong>, when Raleigh hit his 50th home run in the first inning against left-hander JP Sears, sending the ball 419 feet into T-Mobile Park.\n\n\u201c<strong>It doesn&#8217;t seem real<\/strong>\u201d, Raleigh declared after the meeting. \u201cFifty home runs is an incredible number to imagine. I remember when I hit five in high school, I already felt like I had all the power in the world. This is crazy\u201d.\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\">IT\u2019S A 50-HOMER SEASON FOR CAL RALEIGH! \ud83d\ude24 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YtxwLVI66U\">pic.twitter.com\/YtxwLVI66U<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/1960158978064716283?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nWith this feat, Raleigh extends his lead as the <strong>catcher with the most home runs in a season in the history of Major League Baseball<\/strong>, surpassing Salvador P\u00e9rez&#8217;s mark (48 in 2021).\n\nIn addition, he joined Griffey as the only players in Seattle history with a 50-home run season, finishing six short of the franchise&#8217;s all-time record and four short of tying Mickey Mantle&#8217;s record (1961) as the switch-hitter with the most home runs in a season.\n\nThe Mariners&#8217; catcher&#8217;s power also keeps him as the home run leader in 2025, with five more than Shohei Ohtani and Kyle Schwarber. If he continues at this pace, Raleigh could finish with <strong>61 home runs<\/strong>, which would put him just one away from the American League record, set by Aaron Judge in 2022.\n\nBeyond the individual feat, Seattle&#8217;s offense responded after an adverse start and completed a key comeback to secure the victory and keep the <strong>Vedder Cup<\/strong>, a symbolic trophy contested by the Mariners and the Padres, inspired by Pearl Jam&#8217;s leader, Eddie Vedder.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle. \u2013 Cal Raleigh of the Seattle Mariners became the first player for the club to reach 50 home runs in a season since Ken Griffey Jr., who achieved it in 1998. You may be interested in:Junior Caminero hits two home runs and reaches 39 in the season He arrived in the 9-6 victory over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":480081,"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":[611,40231,39774,13766,41186],"class_list":["post-480079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-theperiodicodelatruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20Td","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/20250826_081338.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yamell Rossi","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-7a176880-76f8-4b0c-9527-4e34feef45e4-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/20250826_081338.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480079","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\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}