{"id":134198,"date":"2025-08-10T11:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T11:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/134198\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T11:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T11:18:09","slug":"raleigh-hits-mlb-best-44th-homer-and-rodriguez-connects-twice-as-streaking-mariners-top-rays-7-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/134198\/","title":{"rendered":"Raleigh hits MLB-best 44th homer and Rodr\u00edguez connects twice as streaking Mariners top Rays 7-4"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Cal Raleigh launched his major league-leading 44th home run, Julio Rodr\u00edguez went deep twice and the surging Seattle Mariners defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 7-4 on Saturday night after retiring Ichiro Suzuki\u2019s No. 51 jersey.<\/a><\/p>\n

Seattle extended its win streak to six, the longest active run in the American League, and moved within a half-game of Houston atop the AL West. <\/p>\n

After hitting the go-ahead homer in the eighth inning Friday night,<\/a> Raleigh delivered another three-run shot Saturday to put Seattle up 5-1 in the third. Rodr\u00edguez connected on the next pitch from starter Joe Boyle (1-2), who lasted 3 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

Rodr\u00edguez also hit a two-run homer in the first, a 436-foot drive, and has 23 home runs this season.<\/p>\n

Logan Evans (6-4) allowed three runs in 5 1\/3 innings before four Mariners relievers finished a five-hitter. Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz worked a scoreless ninth for his 27th save.<\/p>\n

Brandon Lowe homered for the second consecutive game in the first inning for Tampa Bay. Junior Caminero hit his 32nd homer in the sixth, a three-run shot off Caleb Ferguson.<\/p>\n

Cole Young scored on a wild pitch in the Seattle sixth to make it 7-4.<\/p>\n

Key moment<\/p>\n

Young\u2019s walk and Randy Arozarena\u2019s single set up Raleigh\u2019s homer to give Seattle a four-run cushion.<\/p>\n

Key stat<\/p>\n

J.P. Crawford\u2019s 17-pitch at-bat against Rays reliever Mason Englert in the sixth tied for the longest by a Mariners player since pitch tracking began in 1988. After hitting 12 foul balls, Crawford popped out to shortstop \u2014 and still received a standing ovation.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay RHP Adrian Houser (6-3, 2.54 ERA) opposes RHP Bryan Woo (9-6, 3.02) in the series finale Sunday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Cal Raleigh launched his major league-leading 44th home run, Julio Rodr\u00edguez went deep twice and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":134199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[21049,47391,591,26095,81121,4711,68253,6064,723,52583,40619,81120,81122,38820,81124,81123,1266,1822,2933,47389,1288,62,1289,67,132,68,2057,2058],"class_list":["post-134198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-adrian-houser","tag-andrs-muoz","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-lowe","tag-bryan-woo","tag-cal-raleigh","tag-caleb-ferguson","tag-fl-state-wire","tag-florida","tag-ichiro-suzuki","tag-j-p-crawford","tag-joe-boyle","tag-julio-rodrguez","tag-junior-caminero","tag-logan-evans","tag-mason-englert","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-raleigh","tag-randy-arozarena","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wa-state-wire","tag-washington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115004198435393816","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}