Another day, another dinger. Of course, Cal Raleigh hasn’t been that productive, going homerless in 39 games this season. But he has gone yard in 19 of them, 19 contests that have been a little extra elevated by the humming, building consideration of how high, how far the 28-year-old backstop can take his display. For now, the latest “another day, another dinger” offering has transported Raleigh into some exceptional associations.
Cal Raleigh went deep for the 23rd time in 2025.
~Raleigh is one of 16 players ever with at least 23 longballs through his club’s first 58 games – outside of the current Mariners’ star, there isn’t any other full-time catcher on this list; there are, however, a whole lot of big names and historic seasons.
23+ HR Through 58 Team Games
31 Barry Bonds (2001)
27 Mark McGwire (1998)
25 Babe Ruth (1928), Jimmie Foxx (1932), Mickey Mantle (1956), Reggie Jackson (1969), Ken Griffey, Jr. (1997), Barry Bonds (2000), Albert Pujols (2006)
24 Babe Ruth (1930), Ken Griffey, Jr. (1994)
23 Babe Ruth (1921), George Bell (1987), Albert Belle (1996), Ken Griffey, Jr. (1999), Cal Raleigh (2025)
~When concentrating on catching, Raleigh’s company continues to dazzle:
Most HR, Playing Catcher, Through 58 Team Games
21 Cal Raleigh (2025)
19 Roy Campanella (1955)
18 Johnny Bench (1970, 1972), Roy Campanella (1953), Iván Rodríguez (2000)
17 Yogi Berra (1956)
~Raleigh’s .637 slugging percentage is among the best any Mariner has showcased through 58 games (min. 200 PA), ranking as the 11th highest. Ken Griffey, Jr. owns five of the better numbers, including the best, a .725 from 1994. Edgar Martínez occupies three others ahead of Raleigh, while Jay Buhner and Álex Rodríguez each claim one.
~Raleigh now has 116 homers in his five-year career.
Most HR Through First Five Seasons (at least 67% of Games at Catcher)
128 Mike Piazza
116 Cal Raleigh
114 Johnny Bench
105 Gary Sánchez
Charlie Morton (6.2 IP, 1 R) picked up the win as the Orioles defeated the White Sox, 3-2. After opening the year 0-7, the 41-year-old has picked up wins in each of his past two starts. It’s the seventh different time in franchise history a starter this old (or older) has recorded wins in consecutive starts (within a single season). Eddie Plank was responsible for three of the two-game runs (no one has more than two in a row in a season), with a pair in 1916 and one in 1917. Fred Johnson won two straight in 1938 and Satchel Paige twice won back-to-back starts in 1952.
Garrett Crochet struck out a season high 12 batters on his way to picking up a win in Boston’s 3-1 victory over Atlanta. The southpaw has three games this season with 11+ strikeouts to stand as the ninth left-hander in Red Sox history to have at least that many in a season.
12 Chris Sale (2017*)
8 Chris Sale (2018)
6 Chris Sale (2019*)
5 Bruce Hurst (1986*)
4 Jon Lester (2009*)
3 Jon Lester (2010, 2014), David Price (2016), Garrett Crochet (2025*)
*Had at least three through the first 61 Red Sox games
Jacob Wilson put together a four-hit game and now has 80 knocks on the season. Before Wilson in 2025, the last five Athletics to have 80+ hits through 60 team games:
1988 Carney Lansford (96)
1951 Ferris Fain (80)
1937 Wally Moses (83)
1935 Doc Cramer (91)
1935 Bob Johnson (88)
José Ramírez singled and homered in Cleveland’s 4-2 victory: the 816th time he’s started in a win for the club. Those 816 are more than anyone else can claim for the franchise.
816 José Ramírez
815 Nap Lajoie
809 Lou Boudreau
804 Tris Speaker
802 Omar Vizquel
In the Mets’ 5-3 win, Pete Alonso contributed a three-run homer while Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto added solo shots. Each has reached double-digits in homers, making this Mets club the ninth to see a trio (or quartet) of players get to 10 through 59 team games. We’ll start with the only quartet before moving chronologically through the trios.
2000 Edgardo Alfonzo, Mike Piazza, Robin Ventura, Todd Zeile
1987 Howard Johnson, Kevin McReynolds, Darryl Strawberry
1990 Howard Johnson, Kevin McReynolds, Darryl Strawberry
1994 Todd Hundley, Jeff Kent, Ryan Thompson
2006 Carlos Beltrán, Carlos Delgado, David Wright
2016 Yoenis Céspedes, Curtis Granderson, Neil Walker
2017 Jay Bruce, Michael Conforto, Lucas Duda
2020 Pete Alonso, Robinson Canó, Dominic Smith
2025 Pete Alonso, Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto
Xavier Edwards tied a Marlins record (accomplished 23 previous times) with a five-hit day. For the franchise, Chuck Carr – on May 3, 1994 – was the first to get five knocks in a game, while Luis Arráez has the most times getting there, with three (all in June of 2023).
A day after dropping a 1-0 decision to Kansas City, the Tigers defeated the Royals, 1-0. Before these two affairs, the teams hadn’t ever played back-to-back 1-0 games. This win for Detroit marked the first 1-0 victory over this particular AL Central rival since 2012 and only the fifth time ever Detroit has come out on top over Kansas City in a 1-0 game. In the other column of the balance sheet, the Royals have won a 1-0 game against the Tigers on 13 occasions.
Kris Bubic took the loss in Kansas City’s defeat, but did drop his ERA from 1.45 to 1.43. Bubic is one of eight left-handers in the divisional era to have an ERA below 1.50 through 60 team games (with a minimum of 60.0 innings thrown), but the only AL’er in the DH-era to make this list; the rest of the group comes from one AL hurler before the DH rule first appeared in 1973 and NL’ers before that league fully adopted the role in 2022. Here’s the octet:
1.45 Vida Blue for the 1971 Athletics
1.15 Bob Knepper for the 1981 Astros
1.03 John Tudor for the 1988 Cardinals
1.42 Randy Johnson for the 2000 Diamondbacks
1.47 Jaime García for the 2010 Cardinals
1.46 Clayton Kershaw for the 2016 Dodgers
1.48 Hyun Jin Ryu for the 2019 Dodgers
1.43 Kris Bubic for the 2025 Royals
Hunter Brown allowed a hit over six scoreless innings and came away with a win as the Astros nudged by the Rays, 1-0. Brown is the Majors’ first eight-game winner and holder of the bigs’ fifth lowest ERA at 1.83. Astros pitchers to match/better Brown’s two numbers through 59 team games:
1971 Larry Dierker has 10 wins and a 1.83 ERA
1980 J.R. Richard has nine wins and a 1.51 ERA
2017 Dallas Keuchel has nine wins and a 1.67 ERA
Jeremy Peña went 2-for-3 with a walk and the lone run scored in Houston’s win. On the morning of April 27 this year, the shortstop was slashing .247/.324/.376 as a middle of the order hitter (he had batted fourth, fifth or sixth in 25 of his 26 games played at that point). Since being moved into the leadoff spot for good since then, he’s slashing .354/.410/.554 in 33 games.
Tampa Bay’s Taj Bradley fanned 10, but with the scratch of one unearned run against him, took the loss against Houston. A line and result hasn’t appeared too often in recent years, but when it has occured, there’s a good chance the tough-luck loser worked for the Rays.
2015-2025: Pitchers with 10+ K, 0 ER, Loss
July 29, 2015 Chris Archer for the Rays
October 3, 2015 Matt Harvey for the Mets
June 21, 2017 Max Scherzer for the Nationals
August 16, 2019 Charlie Morton for the Rays
June 1, 2025 Taj Bradley for the Rays
Elly De La Cruz homered for his 50th career round-tripper. The shortstop is one of 107 players ever to have at least 50 longballs through his age-23 season, and among them, ranks second in steals.
50+ HR Through Age-23 Season, Most SB
205 César Cedeño
119 Elly De La Cruz
118 Álex Rodríguez
113 Mike Trout
104 Vada Pinson
Pete Crow-Armstrong was 3-for-4 with a pair of steals in the Cubs’ win over the Reds. The outfielder isn’t the NL leader in either total bases or steals (he’s third in the former category, second in the latter), but his numerical combination at this stage of a season hasn’t been witnessed too often in the expansion era.
1961-2025: 130+ TB & 19 SB Through 59 Team Games
1967 Lou Brock (145 & 25)
1973 Bobby Bonds (147 & 20)
1987 Eric Davis (133 & 26)
1990 Chris Sabo (131 & 19)
2023 Ronald Acuña, Jr. (133 & 26)
2025 Pete Crow-Armstrong (130 & 19)
Andrew McCutchen went yard for a milestone homer with his current team, the Pirates. This longball was the 240th in his career for Pittsburgh, the same as Roberto Clemente amassed during his Hall of Fame career with the Bucs. On the franchise leaderboard, these two are tied for third most, behind Willie Stargell’s 475 and Ralph Kiner’s 301.
In a Yankees’ win, Aaron Judge scored his 55th run of the year. The league-leading tally (he’s 16 runs ahead of the second place compiler in the AL) also shows big in the franchise’s accounting. Judge is the first Yankee to get to 55 through 58 team games since Mickey Mantle in 1960. Before Mantle’s campaign, the five previous times this had happened for the franchise: Mantle in 1957, Mantle in 1956, Mantle in 1953, Lou Gehrig in 1936, Gehrig in 1933.
Thanks to Baseball Reference and its extraordinary research database, Stathead, for help in assembling this piece.
Roger Schlueter
As Sr. Editorial Director for Major League Baseball Productions from 2004-2015, Roger served as a hub for hundreds of hours of films, series, documentaries and features: as researcher, fact-checker, script doctor, and developer of ideas. The years at MLB Production gave him the ideal platform to pursue what galvanized him the most – the idea that so much of what takes place on the field during the MLB regular and postseason (and is forever beautifully condensed into a box score) has connections to what has come before. Unearthing and celebrating these webs allows baseball to thrive, for the present can come alive and also reignite the past.