SEATTLE -- Cal Raleigh 's historic season reached its most monumental milestone yet on Sunday afternoon, as the Mariners catcher crushed his 48th homer that tied him with Salvador Perez in 2021 for the most in a single season for a player with at least 75% of games as a catcher. Then for good measure, he upped the ante with his 49th one inning later.

And, perhaps fittingly, they were among his most majestic yet.

In the first inning, Raleigh ambushed a 91.7 mph, middle-middle fastball from A’s lefty Jacob Lopez and sent it sailing 448 feet -- his longest of the season -- and into the second deck at T-Mobile Park, giving Seattle a much-needed lead for its scuffling offense. Then in the second, he jumped on a first-pitch changeup from Lopez and yanked it 412 feet, off the out-of-town scor

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