Cal Raleigh may not be carried out making historical past simply but.
When the Seattle Mariners slugger struck his fifty fifth residence run of the yr on Tuesday evening, he broke a tie with Mickey Mantle to set a brand new single-season document for homers by a switch-hitter.
And when Raleigh clubbed his 56th residence run in his very subsequent at-bat, he tied Ken Griffey Jr. for the Mariners’ single-season document.
Passing Griffey is subsequent on Raleigh’s to-do listing, however it’s not the one milestone the person often called Large Dumper has a sensible likelihood at reaching.
Right here’s a have a look at the historical past that Raleigh and different MLB gamers could make because the common season nears its finish.
RALEIGH
Raleigh’s newest residence run surge has him inside hanging distance of 60 residence runs.
If he can get there, Raleigh would turn into the fourth American League participant — and the primary non-Yankee — to hit 60 in a season.
Babe Ruth hit 60 in 1927, and Roger Maris broke his document with 61 in 1961. The AL single-season document now belongs to Aaron Choose, who hit 62 homers in 2022.
Raleigh entered Wednesday with 11 video games left and wanted 4 homers to complete with 60, six to tie Choose’s document and 7 to go him.
He was on tempo for 60 residence runs.
JUDGE
Choose entered Wednesday with 48 residence runs, leaving him two away from the fourth 50-homer season of his profession.
That was notable, contemplating Choose would turn into the fourth participant in MLB historical past with 4 50-homer campaigns.
The others? Ruth, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.
Ruth hit at the very least 50 residence runs in 1920, 1921, 1927 and 1928.
McGwire did it in 4 consecutive seasons from 1996-1999.
Sosa, too, did it 4 years in a row from 1997-2000.
Choose is already one among solely 5 gamers with three 50-homer seasons, together with the aforementioned trio and Alex Rodriguez.
SHOHEI OHTANI
Virtually yearly, Ohtani finds a brand new technique to make distinctive historical past.
The Los Angeles Dodgers’ two-way sensation did so on Tuesday evening when he struck out his fiftieth batter as a pitcher and smacked his fiftieth homer as a hitter, making him the primary participant ever to perform that type of 50/50 season.
Final yr, Ohtani grew to become the primary participant to hit 50 homers and steal 50 bases in a single yr.
Ohtani is the heavy favourite to win the Nationwide League MVP this yr, which might mark the fourth MVP Award of his profession.
That will make him solely the second participant in MLB historical past with 4 MVPs. The opposite is Barry Bonds, who received a whopping seven.
50-HOMER FRENZY
Ought to Choose get to 50 homers, he would turn into the fourth participant this season to achieve that quantity, becoming a member of Raleigh, Ohtani and Kyle Schwarber of the Philadelphia Phillies.
It will be the primary time since 2001 that 4 gamers hit at the very least 50 homers in the identical season.
That yr, Barry Bonds broke the single-season document with 73 homers, whereas Sosa, Rodriguez and Luis Gonzalez every eclipsed 50.
METS MASHERS
Juan Soto has an out of doors likelihood at turning into the seventh participant to ship a 40/40 season.
He entered Wednesday with 32 stolen bases, which means he would wish eight within the last 11 video games to realize the feat.
However maybe extra possible was that Pete Alonso would be part of Soto within the 40-homer membership, which might mark the primary occasion within the Mets’ 64-year historical past that two of their gamers hit 40 homers in the identical season.
Alonso started the day with 35, so he would wish to up his tempo a bit so as to take action.
Soto is the fifth participant in Mets historical past to hit 40 residence runs in a season. Alonso has carried out it 3 times.
NO NO-NOS
No-hitters have turn into comparatively commonplace in immediately’s period of strikeout-happy hitters and power-armed bullpens, however remarkably, there has not been one no-no in 2025.
This is able to be the primary season since 2005 and not using a no-hitter and solely the fifth since 1969.
The Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto got here the closest on Sept. 6, however he surrendered his first hit with two outs within the ninth inning.
Final yr, there have been 4 no-hitters. In 2021, there have been an MLB-record 9.
MIKE TROUT
The Los Angeles Angels star started Wednesday with 399 residence runs in his profession.
Yet another would make Trout the 58th participant in MLB historical past to achieve 400 homers, and solely the second lively participant, becoming a member of Giancarlo Stanton.
STANTON
Talking of Stanton, the Yankees slugger was on the verge of a spherical quantity, too.
Stanton entered Wednesday with 449 homers in his profession, leaving him one away from turning into the forty first participant to achieve 450.
MAX SCHERZER
It will take a heavy elevate, however Max Scherzer has a distant likelihood at reaching 3,500 profession strikeouts earlier than season’s finish.
Scherzer is eighteen strikeouts away and can possible make two extra begins.
The 41-year-old does boast an 11-strikeout efficiency this yr, however he has not struck out greater than eight in any of his different 14 begins.
Scherzer could be the eleventh participant in MLB historical past with 3,500 strikeouts.
If he pitches once more subsequent season, he would have a great opportunity of cracking the highest 10 on MLB’s all-time strikeout listing. Walter Johnson (3,509) is barely 27 forward of Scherzer for tenth place.
SCHWARBER
With 12 RBI within the last 10 video games, Schwarber would turn into the primary NL participant since 2009 to drive in 140 runs in a season.
The final to do it have been Ryan Howard and Prince Fielder, who had 141 RBI apiece in 2009.
Final yr, Choose grew to become the primary participant in both league with at the very least 140 RBI since that ’09 season.
