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Baseball history has a tendency, every once in a while, to be quite magical.
That's what most of this season has felt like for Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh. But even amid this special season, Raleigh may not have had a moment quite as eerie and special as Tuesday night.
This information comes courtesy of Mariners statistician Alex Mayer.
Raleigh this season became the second player in MLB history to hit exactly 60 home runs in a season. Babe Ruth, in 1927, was the first.
Both Raleigh and Ruth hit their 61st homer of the season, then, in a playoff game. Both of those 61st home runs came on October 7, in their final at bat, in a game in which their team scored eight runs and won.
Cal Raleigh and Babe Ruth are the only players in @MLB history to hit *exactly* 60 home runs in a season. Both hit HR 6️⃣1️⃣ in the Postseason on October 7, in their final AB of a win in which their team scored 8 runs:
Ruth 10/7/1927 | Cal 10/7/2025#Postseason #TheMayerGWS 🔱
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That's one of the most incredibly magical, impossible-to-believe stats in the history of baseball.
What are the odds?
Raleigh has spent a lot of time with Ruth in various "first time since this" kind of American League record-chasing this season. And now, he's pretty much just in lockstep.
The Big Dumper following the lead of The Great Bambino. It doesn't get much more special than that.
Those 1927 Yankees won the World Series. If the Mariners can follow along in that way, too, it'd be the stuff of absolute legend.
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