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Cal Raleigh hits 37th, 38th home runs of season as Seattle Mariners blast Tigers 12-3

By Dave Hogg
Published  July 11, 2025 7:58pm PDT
Seattle Mariners
Associated Press
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DETROIT, MI - JULY 11: Cal Raleigh #29 of the Seattle Mariners hits a solo home run in the eighth inning during the game between the Seattle Mariners and the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park on Friday, July 11, 2025 in Detroit, Michigan.  (Monica Bradburn / MLB Photos / Getty Images)

The Brief

    • Cal Raleigh hit two more home runs – his 37th and 38th of the season – including a grand slam in the ninth inning in Seattle's 12-3 win over the Tigers.
    • Raleigh now has more home runs before the All-Star break than any player in MLB history except for Barry Bonds, who had 39 homers in 2001.
    • The Mariners have handed reigning AL Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal his last two losses. Skubal was 10-0 with a 1.62 ERA in 16 starts for Detroit since losing 3-2 in Seattle on April 2. He allowed four runs on four hits with two walks in five innings with five strikeouts.

DETROIT - Cal Raleigh hit his 37th and 38th home runs to move within one of Barry Bonds’ 2001 record for homers before the All-Star break, and the Seattle Mariners beat Detroit 12-3 on Friday night to end Tarik Skubal’s three-month unbeaten streak.

Raleigh — in the lineup as designated hitter — made it 5-3 on a solo shot in the eighth inning, then hit a grand slam in a seven-run ninth.

Skubal (10-3) was 10-0 with a 1.62 ERA in 16 starts since losing 3-2 to the Mariners in Seattle on April 2. He allowed four runs on four hits and two walks in five innings, striking out five.

Luis Castillo (6-5) got the win, giving up three runs in five innings.

Seattle took a 1-0 lead in the third when center fielder Parker Meadows dove for Donovan Solano's sinking liner and missed. It rolled to the wall for an RBI triple. Zach McKinstry tied it with a fourth-inning single.

J.P. Crawford's two-out RBI single made it 2-1 in the fifth, and Rodríguez followed with a two-run homer over the Seattle bullpen in left-center field.

Riley Greene's RBI triple got the major league-leading Tigers to 4-2 in the sixth, and Spencer Torkelson followed with a sacrifice fly.

Key moment

Nine of Seattle's first 10 batters reached base in the ninth inning, leading manager A.J. Hinch to insert catcher Jake Rogers for his third career pitching appearance. He retired two of the three batters he faced to escape the inning.

Key stat

Skubal started on four days rest in order to get an extra day off before the All-Star Game. In his career, he's 14-15 with a 3.98 ERA on four days of rest, but 37-16 with a 2.68 ERA on five or more. The biggest difference comes in walks (2.6 per nine as opposed to 1.6) and homers (1.4 per nine as opposed to 0.8).

Up next

Tigers All-Star RHP Casey Mize (9-2, 2.63) was set to face RHP George Kirby (3-4, 4.22) on Saturday.

The Source: Information in this story came from The Associated Press.

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