The situations Saturday afternoon in Wrigley Area have been ripe for dwelling runs with the wind blowing out and it being extremely sizzling. Certain sufficient, the Cubs hit 5 homers on their approach to a 10-7 win over the Mariners. Seattle hit only one dwelling run and if you got one guess as to which participant it was, you’d have certainly, accurately, picked catcher Cal Raleigh. 

That’s Raleigh’s thirtieth dwelling run of the season and the Mariners have solely performed 75 video games. Which means that not solely is Raleigh nonetheless on tempo to surpass 60 dwelling runs this season, however he is persevering with to stack up the historic markers. 

• Raleigh already set the file for dwelling runs by a catcher earlier than the All-Star break.
• Raleigh is the primary participant this season to the 30-homer mark. Sure, a catcher beat the likes of Aaron Decide and Shohei Ohtani to 30.
• That is now Raleigh’s third 30-homer season, becoming a member of Corridor of Famers Mike Piazza (9 instances), Johnny Bench (4 instances) and Roy Campanella (4 instances) as the one catchers in historical past with three 30-homer seasons. 
• Raleigh turns into the primary change hitter ever to succeed in 30 homers earlier than the All-Star break. 
• He’s additionally the primary participant to succeed in 30 dwelling runs in 75 of his group’s video games since 2001, when each Barry Bonds and Luis Gonzalez did it. 

As a reminder, the file for dwelling runs in a season by a catcher is 48, which Salvador Perez set in 2021. The excessive mark for a change hitter in a single season is 54, which Mickey Mantle did in 1961. The Mariners membership file is 56, which Ken Griffey Jr. did in each 1997 and 1998. The American League file is 62 (Decide in 2022) and the MLB file is 73 (Bonds in 2001).