Just about every team the Seattle Mariners have faced this year has allowed a home run to Cal Raleigh.

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Yet the Athletics, who the Mariners play more than every team except their other American League West rivals, nearly made it through all 13 of their games against the M’s without falling victim to one of the Big Dumper’s big blasts.

That changed in a hurry Sunday in the clubs’ final game against each other this season, as Raleigh homered in his first at-bat to tie MLB’s single-season record for catchers, then clubbed No. 49 in his next plate appearance to stand alone as baseball’s greatest home run-hitting catcher in a single season.

The switch-hitting slugger made it to 50 home runs with another blast in Monday’s wi

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