Cal Raleigh continues to make history.
At this point, the Seattle Mariners’ superstar catcher has a list too long to count of records he has broken or tied or changed as the season has gone on. Baseball is a game filled with numbers, and when someone is having a season as magical as Raleigh’s, it’s possible to find an MLB milestone in so many moments.
The latest came Friday night. Raleigh went 3-for-5 with two doubles, a home run and two RBI in a wild 11-9 win over the Mets.
In the process, he reached 100 RBI for the season, and that’s the manner in which he made history on this night.
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It’s a second consecutive 100-RBI season for Raleigh. He had exactly 100 last year, his first time reaching that mark.
With that, Raleigh becomes the first catcher in 25 years to have consecutive seasons with triple-digit RBI.
Fittingly, given the Mariners are currently hanging out in Queens, the last man to do it was Hall of Famer Mike Piazza, according to Seattle’s PR team.
Piazza actually did it five seasons in a row, from 1996 through 2000.
Raleigh currently leads the league in RBI with his 100, and he’s got a month-and-a-half to add to the total.
He’s also up to a league-best 46 homers. He’s only two away from Salvador Perez’s single-season catcher home run mark of 48, and he’s within reach of Mickey Mantle’s switch-hitter single-season record of 54.
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Raleigh had been cold for a while after the All-Star break, but he has four home runs in his last six games, and the two doubles as well Friday night are a good sign that he might be about to get into another groove.
The Mariners are in the heat of a divisional race, so any records Raleigh wants to set along the way while being one of the best hitters in baseball will be just fine with Seattle.
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