SEATTLE -- Cal Raleigh cannot be stopped.
One day after he hit two massive homers to move atop the all-time leaderboard for the most in history in a single season by a primary catcher, the Mariners backstop one-upped himself with his 50th of the season in the first inning on Monday night vs. the Padres .
Raleigh won an eight-pitch battle with lefty JP Sears by working into a full count then yanking a 92.9 mph, low-and-in fastball and crushing it 419 feet into the second deck at T-Mobile Park.
Raleigh is now four homers shy of tying the record for most by a switch-hitter (Mickey Mantle in 1961) and six shy of tying Seattle’s franchise record (Ken Griffey Jr. in 1997 and 1998). And he joined Griffey as the only players in team history to reach 50.
One distinction from Monday’s long