CHICAGO — Cal Raleigh broke Johnny Bench’s document for residence runs by a catcher earlier than the All-Star break, hitting his major-league-leading twenty eighth and twenty ninth within the Seattle Mariners’ 9-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Friday.
Raleigh broke a tie within the seventh with No. 29 to maneuver forward of Corridor of Famer Bench’s 1970 mark.
It was Raleigh’s fifth go-ahead residence run within the seventh inning or later this season, essentially the most in MLB.
Raleigh had three hits in his sixth multi-homer sport of the season, which tied Mike Piazza (1995) for the second-most multi-homer video games by a catcher in a season. Raleigh has performed in 73 video games, whereas Piazza did so in 112 video games. Javy Lopez (2003) leads all catchers in multi-homer video games in a season, hitting eight in 129 video games.
Mitch Garver additionally homered twice and drove in 5 runs, placing it away with a three-run shot within the ninth. Randy Arozarena and Donovan Solano every had three hits to assist Seattle win for the fifth time in seven video games.
The groups mixed for six homers with the wind blowing out on a heat day when former Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa returned to Wrigley Discipline for the primary time in over 20 years.
Ian Happ homered in Chicago’s three-run first inning, and Reese McGuire added a solo shot. Michael Busch had three hits and two RBIs because the NL Central-leading Cubs dropped their second straight.
Raleigh hit his go-ahead drive to the again of the left-field bleachers off Caleb Thielbar (2-2). Raleigh despatched his first homer simply over the basket within the first off Matthew Boyd.
Eduard Bazardo (2-0) pitched a scoreless sixth for the win.
Boyd made a dramatic catch of J.P. Crawford’s comebacker for the ultimate out within the prime of the fifth. Boyd snared the liner on the final immediate because it was headed for his face.
Chicago’s Pete Crow-Armstrong popped out softly 3 times and struck out a day after going deep and turning into the primary participant with 20 homers and 20 steals this season.
Seattle RHP Emerson Hancock (3-2, 4.48 ERA) is ready to face RHP Cade Horton (3-1. 3.47) on Saturday.
ESPN Analysis and The Related Press contributed to this report.
