{"id":215831,"date":"2025-09-10T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/215831\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:36:09","slug":"mariners-cal-raleigh-on-verge-of-mickey-mantles-switch-hitting-mlb-record-but-with-very-different-left-right-splits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/215831\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners’ Cal Raleigh on verge of Mickey Mantle’s switch-hitting MLB record, but with very different left-right splits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mariners’ Cal Raleigh on verge of Mickey Mantle’s switch-hitting MLB record, but with very different left-right splits<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n

Cal Raleigh is on the verge of joining Mickey Mantle in MLB history, and then potentially passing him soon after.<\/p>\n

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The Seattle Mariners’ star catcher has 53 home runs this season. The Yankees legend holds the MLB record with 54 home runs in a single season by a switch-hitter.<\/p>\n

Raleigh has been on track to break Mantle’s mark, and now he’s on the precipice.<\/p>\n

Maybe the most interesting thing about the chase, besides the fact that no one was predicting a 50-HR season for Raleigh, is how they each got to their number.<\/p>\n

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Mantle hit an overwhelming number of his home runs in that season as a left-handed hitter.<\/p>\n

That year, 1961, featured Mantle hitting 43 out of the park from the left side and 11 from the right.<\/p>\n

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Raleigh this season has hit 33 homers lefty and 20 righty.<\/p>\n

Switch-hitting is a magical art that seems like it should be pretty much impossible. To be an MLB-caliber hitter, let alone a star, while having to master hitting major league pitching from both sides of the plate? Brutal.<\/p>\n

Yet somehow, rare talents like Mantle or Raleigh come along and prove it can be done.<\/p>\n

Raleigh does it while catching, too, one of the most demanding positions in sports.<\/p>\n

It has all added up to a special season, and Raleigh can put the cherry on top of it all by passing Mantle and standing alone on the switch-hitter single-season home run list.<\/p>\n

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