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Baseball’s 60-Homer Club Welcomes Its Newest Member: ‘Big Dumper’​

By swatting his 59th and 60th home runs on Wednesday night, Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh became the most unlikely player ever to reach one of the sport’s most sacred milestones​


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“… The 28-year-old Raleigh had none of the advantages held by his predecessors. His home stadium in Seattle, T-Mobile Park, is one of the most challenging offensive environments in the sport. Unlike McGwire, Sosa and Bonds, he has never been linked to chemical assistance of any kind. The most notable aspect of Raleigh’s physique is his large rear end, which earned him his famous nickname, “Big Dumper.”

If all that weren’t enough, Raleigh is also a catcher, the most grueling position in the game.

… Never before had a backstop finished with more than 48 homers in a season, though Salvador Perez hit 15 of those for the 2021 Kansas City Royals while serving as the designated hitter. Raleigh eclipsed that number a month ago—and hasn’t stopped mashing since.

… Raleigh’s 55th homer earlier this month surpassed Mickey Mantle’s previous high for a switch hitter. (Oh, yeah, he hits from both sides of the plate, too.) No. 57 unseated Ken Griffey Jr. for the most homers ever hit by a member of the Mariners….”

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Raleigh is an NC native from Cullowhee and played at Smoky Mountain HS in Sylvia NC. He played college ball at Florida State.
 
The Guardians have a one game lead over the Tigers in the AL Central. They play the Tigers one more time tonight, but even if the Tigers win, the Guards have won the season series thus they own the tiebreaker. Guardians end the season at home with a 3 game series vs the Rangers, who are eliminated from the playoffs. The Tigers go to Boston to play the Red Sox who are fighting for a wild card slot. If the Guards win tonight to sweep the Tigers they will have a two game lead and hold the tiebreaker, Detroit will need to sweep the Sox while needing the Rangers to take at least two from Cleveland.
 
farce© said:
The Guardians have a one game lead over the Tigers in the AL Central. They play the Tigers one more time tonight, but even if the Tigers win, the Guards have won the season series thus they own the tiebreaker. Guardians end the season at home with a 3 game series vs the Rangers, who are eliminated from the playoffs. The Tigers go to Boston to play the Red Sox who are fighting for a wild card slot. If the Guards win tonight to sweep the Tigers they will have a two game lead and hold the tiebreaker, Detroit will need to sweep the Sox while needing the Rangers to take at least two from Cleveland.
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What the heck happened to the Tigers the last few months?
 
farce© said:
The Guardians have a one game lead over the Tigers in the AL Central. They play the Tigers one more time tonight, but even if the Tigers win, the Guards have won the season series thus they own the tiebreaker. Guardians end the season at home with a 3 game series vs the Rangers, who are eliminated from the playoffs. The Tigers go to Boston to play the Red Sox who are fighting for a wild card slot. If the Guards win tonight to sweep the Tigers they will have a two game lead and hold the tiebreaker, Detroit will need to sweep the Sox while needing the Rangers to take at least two from Cleveland.
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Been thinking about you Farce during this incredible run by your Guardians combined with the epic collapse of the Tigers. Fingers crossed for you [and honestly a bit for me as Houston's ONLY realistic chance at this point is for the Tigers to lose out]
 
nycfan said:
What the heck happened to the Tigers the last few months?
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They play in Detroit. There's a law of the universe that only one Detroit sports team can be good at any one time. The Lions are good, so . . .

LOL. I have no idea if that's really true. It's hard to test because the Lions are almost always bad; the Pistons are usually (they have had championship teams but I'd wager they've had more losing seasons since 1980 than winning seasons), and the Tigers are typically under .500 and have been wretchedly bad. So simple probability says . . .

but I prefer to think of a Detroit jinx. For no reason, really, other than adding color to an increasingly boring game.
 
farce© said:
The Guardians have a one game lead over the Tigers in the AL Central. They play the Tigers one more time tonight, but even if the Tigers win, the Guards have won the season series thus they own the tiebreaker. Guardians end the season at home with a 3 game series vs the Rangers, who are eliminated from the playoffs. The Tigers go to Boston to play the Red Sox who are fighting for a wild card slot. If the Guards win tonight to sweep the Tigers they will have a two game lead and hold the tiebreaker, Detroit will need to sweep the Sox while needing the Rangers to take at least two from Cleveland.
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Historic collapse by Detroit coupled with an insane heater by Cleveland. Hardly would’ve seemed possible a couple weeks ago.
 
duluoz said:
Historic collapse by Detroit coupled with an insane heater by Cleveland. Hardly would’ve seemed possible a couple weeks ago.
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This. Detroit has gone something like 7-21 in their last 28 games while Cleveland has won something like 20 of their last 22. Cleveland was actually 15 or 16 games out of first not that long ago.
 
Tie game, 2-2 in the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded. Then the Cleveland batter got hit by a pitch to bring in the walk off run and clinch a playoff spot?

Who had that on their bingo card?

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Now the f’ing Mets have to win and hope the reds lose.

Tiebreaker is season series and it’s 4-2 reds. No more play-in game so that single regular season head-to-head game made all the difference.
 
duluoz said:
Now the f’ing Mets have to win and hope the reds lose.

Tiebreaker is season series and it’s 4-2 reds. No more play-in game so that single regular season head-to-head game made all the difference.
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Reds are losing to the Brewers 4-2 but Mets are down 4-0 to the Marlins.
 
ChapelHillSooner said:
I am floored that people care about this enough to get mad about the results or generally be rude.

I suppose people say the same about NCAA football.
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You’re surprised people are passionate about their team making or missing the MLB playoffs on the final day of the regular season? Baseball fans have been following this daily for 6 months.
 
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