Cal Raleigh is again.
The Seattle Mariners star, after backing up a breakout marketing campaign in 2025 with a really tough go this summer time, appears to have discovered his stride once more. Raleigh rattled off three dwelling runs to assist elevate the Mariners to a 9-2 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night time. It was the primary ever three-homer sport of his profession.
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Raleigh opened the night time with a two-run shot to proper within the first inning at T-Cell Park, which helped push the Mariners to a 5-1 lead nearly immediately. It was the second dwelling run of the inning for Seattle, too, following Julio Rodríguez’s three-run shot.
Raleigh then adopted go well with with a really deep solo homer within the fifth inning, which prolonged the Mariners’ lead.
And at last, Raleigh simply barely bought his third one over the wall in proper discipline within the seventh inning for good measure. All three of his homers had been on practically equivalent trajectories.
Raleigh entered Monday night time with only a .159 batting common with 47 RBI and solely 14 dwelling runs. It was solely two weeks in the past that Raleigh — who drilled 60 dwelling runs, made his first All-Star workforce and received the House Run Derby in 2025 — sounded extremely down about his play throughout a shedding skid.
“It is not good,” he stated. “We’re not enjoying effectively. That begins with me. I am terrible. I’ve bought to discover a option to be higher and to assist convey the fellows alongside. We simply gotta play higher. We’re simply enjoying very, very, very unhealthy baseball in each aspect of the sport. We gotta decide it up — from the vitality standpoint to the execution to the little issues within the sport that assist you win baseball video games. We’re simply not doing these issues proper now.”
The win marked Seattle’s third of their final 4 outings, although they entered Monday recent off a 19-2 beatdown by the Chicago Cubs. The win moved them to 63-69 on the 12 months, solely a handful of video games again from each the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros within the AL West race.
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They’re inside hanging distance of the ultimate AL wild-card spot, too, simply lower than 4 video games again. However with somewhat greater than a month left within the common season, they’re operating out of time to make a transfer.
One sport will not break him out of his funk utterly, however Monday’s outing was a flash of the greatness that Raleigh confirmed all through 2025. Whether or not that is sufficient to spark a late rally for the Mariners and get a postseason push going, although, stays to be seen.
