4 home runs from Cal Raleigh's historic season that Mariners fans won't forget

Between the regular season and the postseason, Cal Raleigh hit 65 home runs for the Seattle Mariners this year. You may have heard about it, and one way you can tell that's an awful lot of dingers is that the official highlight video of all of them put together is nearly half an hour long.

When a guy hits that many balls over the fence in the span of just seven months, it becomes that much harder to remember specific homers. As an example, Raleigh's 35th of the year was a solo shot off Bailey Falter on July 4, at a moment when the Mariners had a 3-0 lead on the Pittsburgh Pirates. Totally innocuous... even though it was the one that set a new career high for "Big Dumper."

So just to be safe, we're going to look back at four homers from Raleigh's year that deserve to live on in fans' memories.

4 home runs from Cal Raleigh's 65-homer season that Mariners fans won't forget

August 8, 2025: For the lead against the Tampa Bay Rays

This three-run shot off Griffin Jax was "only" Raleigh's 43rd home run, but win probability added confirms it as the biggest hit the Mariners got all season. It turned a 2-0 deficit into a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the eighth, ultimately allowing the Mariners to win their fifth in a row amid an eight-game win streak.

Though this is the most extreme example, Raleigh had quite a few moments like this during the regular season. He had a 1.080 OPS and 12 homers in high-leverage spots, qualifying him as one of the most clutch hitters in MLB.

August 24, 2025: Breaking Salvador Perez's record

It's hard to pinpoint exactly when it became apparent that Raleigh was going to have a record-breaking year, but this is the homer that pretty much made it official. After falling just one shy of Barry Bonds' record for homers before the All-Star break, he matched Perez's mark for homers by a catcher with more than a month left to go in the regular season.

Also, here's a fun fact: At 448 feet, this was the longest homer Raleigh hit all year.

September 24, 2025: Becoming the seventh player to hit 60

After tying Perez, Raleigh started breaking home run records left and right. His 49th gave him sole possession of the catcher record, and he would go on to claim records for home runs by a switch-hitter (55) and home runs by a Mariner (57).

Yet all of those were merely stepping stones on his path to 60, which he got via his second of the day against the Colorado Rockies during the Mariners' final homestand of the season. It also matched another record through the back door, as it was his record-tying 11th multi-homer game of the season.

October 17, 2025: For the tie in ALCS Game 5

Remember that earlier point about Raleigh's homer off Jax in August being the biggest hit the Mariners got all season? That was technically accurate, but it wouldn't have been if we'd said "all year."

By championship win probability added, Raleigh's game-tying homer off Brendon Little in the bottom of the eighth inning of ALCS Game 5 was even bigger. Yes, even bigger than the grand slam by Eugenio Suárez that followed to deliver what unfortunately ended up being the Mariners' last win of 2025.