At 60 Homers With 4 Video games Left, Choose’s AL Report 62 is Up Subsequent For Cal Raleigh

If Cal Raleigh doesn’t hit another home run for the rest of 2025, he will still have produced one of the top-10 homer seasons in MLB history. On Wednesday, he picked up his 59th long ball of the year, tying him with Babe Ruth’s 1921 for the 10th-most ever, and then blasted his 60th later in the same game, moving him into a tie for ninth with Babe Ruth again, this time his legendary 1927.

In addition, Raleigh is the lone switch-hitter in the top 10 – the previous record for home runs by a switch-hitter was Mickey Mantle’s 54 in 1961 – which is otherwise made up of three left-handed batters and three righties (as well as a couple of repeat players). He’s also one more multi-homer game away from becoming the leader in those in a single season: Raleigh is currently tied with Hank Greenberg’s 1938, Sammy Sosa’s 1998 and Aaron Judge’s 2022 with 11 such games.

The records don’t have to stop there, though: there are four games left in the season for Raleigh and his Mariners, which means four more games for him to move further up the all-time, single-season home run rankings. While Barry Bonds’ 73 from 2001 is out of reach barring the greatest single-weekend performance in MLB’s history, there is still plenty for Raleigh to accomplish in what time remains in 2025.

Here are the top 10 single-season home run leaders, as of Sept. 25:

Yet another house run would tie Raleigh with Roger Maris for eighth all-time, and likewise the second-most in American League historical past. Two extra house runs would tie him with Choose, the AL report holder, and present seventh-ranked participant. A 3rd homer in his remaining 4 video games would give Raleigh sole possession of the AL report, in addition to tie him with Sammy Sosa’s 1999 for the sixth-most in a single season.

Past that’s possibly asking for a bit an excessive amount of, nevertheless it’s fully attainable that Raleigh hits 4 in his remaining 4 video games, which might put his 2025 right into a tie for the fifth-most ever, with Sosa’s 2001. 

Ought to Raleigh efficiently go Choose, it could not solely imply the AL report is his, but in addition that it was not in possession of the Yankees. Earlier than Ruth hit 59 house runs with New York in 1921, he mashed 54 of them for the Yankees in 1920. And earlier than that, Ruth was on the Purple Sox, the place he went deep an MLB-leading 29 occasions in 1919. These 29 house runs have been additionally a brand new report, breaking Ned Williamson’s then-longstanding mark of 27 from 1884, with the Nationwide League’s Chicago White Stockings – now the Cubs. 

The Purple Sox had the report till Ruth smashed it with the Yankees the very subsequent season, after which Ruth broke it a pair extra occasions in his profession, culminating in 1927’s 60-homer marketing campaign. That report then stood till Maris in 1961, and was damaged so far as MLB goes by McGwire in ‘98 after which Bonds in ’01, however the AL-specific mark stood till Choose surpassed Maris in 2022, which saved a minimum of the extra native model the report in-house for the Yankees. 

Now, with simply three extra house runs, Raleigh can take not simply the AL report from Choose, however from the group that has had it connected to certainly one of their gamers for over 100 years now. Raleigh will face the Rockies one final time on Thursday, then conclude his season over the weekend in opposition to the Dodgers.

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