SEATTLE (AP) — Cal Raleigh’s 64th home run of the year wasn’t his longest. Just the most satisfying.

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His eighth-inning drive against the Toronto Blue Jays was no sure thing. The ball rose 155 feet above the field on a high arc and had a 6.7-second hang time before it dropped over the left-field wall at T-Mobile Park, 348 feet from home plate.

“So, the roof open, you know, maybe a different result, I don’t know,” Raleigh said following Friday’s 6-2 win that moved the Seattle Mariners within one victory of their first World Series trip. “But, glad I got enough of that one.”

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