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It was a night of celebration for the Seattle Mariners.

Star catcher Cal Raleigh hit his 59th and 60th home runs of the year as the Mariners beat the Colorado Rockies 9-2 to clinch the American League West title on Wednesday night at T-Mobile Park for the first time in 24 years.

Raleigh became the seventh player in MLB history to hit at least 60 home runs in a season.

The switch-hitting catcher’s first home run of the game came in the first inning, hitting from the left side of the plate. Raleigh pummeled Rockies pitcher Tanner Gordon’s 93-mph fastball 438 feet into the third deck for his 59th homer of the season to put the Mariners up 1-0.

“It was like a movie,” teammate Julio Rodríguez said of Raleigh’s first-inning moonshot. “I’m just so

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