Raleigh ties M's record with 35 HRs before break

SEATTLE -- Cal Raleigh deed his 34th and 35th location runs to acceptable a vocation precocious and lucifer Ken Griffey Jr.'s Seattle grounds for homers earlier the All-Star break, helping the Mariners bushed the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-0 connected Friday.

Raleigh, the large league person successful location runs, turned connected a fastball from Bailey Falter (6-4) successful the archetypal inning and walloped it good past the partition successful left. The exit velocity connected the two-run changeable was logged astatine 115.2 mph, per Statcast, the hardest-hit shot of his career.

Raleigh topped his erstwhile vocation high, acceptable past season, successful the sixth with a solo changeable that chased Falter. The Mariners mustered lone 1 different deed disconnected the left-hander, but it was besides a location tally courtesy of Randy Arozarena successful the 4th inning.

Raleigh's 35 homers are tied for the fifth-most successful the MLB past earlier the All-Star interruption (since 1933), matching Griffey Jr. successful 1998 and Luis Gonzalez successful 2001. Barry Bonds holds the grounds with 39 astatine the interruption successful 2001.

A switch-hitter, Raleigh has much location runs arsenic a left-handed hitter and arsenic a right-handed hitter than anyone other connected the Mariners: He has 21 from the near broadside and 14 from the right; Arozarena ranks 2nd connected Seattle with 13 homers this season.

The Associated Press and ESPN Research contributed to this report.