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Seattle Mariners' Cal Raleigh watches his solo home run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Minnesota Twins, Sunday, Jun 1, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Mariners slugger Cal Raleigh leads MLB in homers and is on pace to set a season record for catchers

Given the way Cal Raleigh’s season has started, perhaps the Seattle Mariners catcher is wholly deserving of those “MVP” chants. With a solo shot during Seattle’s 2-1 victory over the Minnesota Twins, Raleigh upped his total to a major league-leading 23 home runs. The 28-year-old backstop nicknamed Big Dumper became the first catcher in big league history to reach 20 homers before the end of May. Salvador Perez of the Kansas City Royals holds the major league record for home runs in a season by a catcher with 48 in 2021. Raleigh is on pace for 64 this year, which would break the American League mark of 62 set by Aaron Judge in 2022.

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Seattle Mariners' Cal Raleigh, center, celebrates in the dugout after hitting a solo home run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Minnesota Twins, Sunday, Jun 1, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Raleigh hits 23rd homer and Arozarena gets winning hit in 9th to lift Mariners over Twins 2-1

Cal Raleigh hit his major league-leading 23rd homer and Randy Arozarena singled home the winning run in the ninth inning to give the Seattle Mariners a 2-1 victory over the Minnesota Twins. Arozarena grounded a base hit up the middle with one out to score Julio Rodriguez, who singled against Griffin Jax leading off the ninth. Rodriguez stole second and advanced to third on a throwing error by catcher Ryan Jeffers. Raleigh walloped a curveball in the seventh from Twins starter Chris Paddack, who was otherwise brilliant for eight innings. He struck out 10, walked one and limited the Mariners to four hits. Luis Castillo threw six shutout innings for Seattle, but the Twins tied it against closer Andrés Muñoz in the ninth on Harrison Bader’s sacrifice fly.

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