What a magnificent game #151 yesterday. Cal hit #'s 55 & 56, breaking Mickey Mantle's record for HR's by a switch-hitter and, then tying Ken Griffey's record for most Mariner HR's in a season. Dom Canzone stunned everyone with 3 HR's and 5 hits. Amazing!!!
Bryce Miller will pitch sensationally and keep the ball in the park. Royals will be stymied by Bryce.
Mariners face-off against left-hander Cole Ragans. Ragans, 28 this offseason, has been out more than three months due to a strained rotator cuff in his left shoulder. Let's hope he is just healthy enough to throw batting practice to all of our hitters.
Speaking of "hitters", I think Suarez needs a night off this game; 13 K's and 0 hits in his last 8 games. Give Rivas 3B this afternoon.
Move Canzone and Robles up to 6-7 and bat Rivas 8th, in front of JP. Canzone hit one of his HR's off of a LHer so no reason not to have him in the lineup.
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KANSAS CITY -- Cal Raleigh etched his name into the record books alongside baseball legends Mickey Mantle and Ken Griffey Jr. with two swings Thursday night. And his chase isn’t over.
Big Dumper belted his 55th and 56th home runs of the season in the Mariners’ 12-5 win over the Royals at Kauffman Stadium, passing Mantle (55 in 1961) for the most by a switch-hitter in a single season before matching Griffey (56 in both 1997 and ‘98) for the most long balls in a season in Mariners franchise history.
Both homers traveled over 415 feet, the first hooking inside the right-field foul pole before the second crashed into the brick batter’s eye in center field. Raleigh now has 45 homers this year when playing catcher, which was already an MLB record.
“It doesn’t even seem real,” said Dominic Canzone, who went 5-for-5 with three home runs Tuesday. “He just does it every single day. He’s grinding behind the plate as well, so to just have that type of performance out of your catcher, it’s something that you really don’t see. He’s like a once-in-a-lifetime type player.”
The 28-year-old catcher needs just one more deep fly in the final 11 games to pass Griffey for the franchise title before attention will turn towards reaching the 60-homer mark, which has only been done nine times by six different players: Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire (twice), Sammy Sosa (three times), Aaron Judge, Rogers Maris and Babe Ruth.
