Cal Raleigh needed only one swing Tuesday night to turn a remarkable game into a franchise-level streak.
The Seattle Mariners catcher drove an Aaron Nola pitch 362 feet to right field in the second inning against the Philadelphia Phillies, giving him a home run in four consecutive at-bats across two nights. According to The Associated Press, the run matched the Mariners record set by Mike Cameron on May 2, 2002.
For Raleigh, the sequence was more than a hot stretch. It was a sudden reminder of the power that made him one of baseball’s most feared hitters in 2025 — and a dramatic interruption to a difficult 2026 season.
Four home runs, two nights, one Seattle record
The streak began Monday, when Raleigh hit three home runs in Seattle’s 9-2 victory over Philadelphia. It was the first three-homer game of his career and, according to MLB.com, the first time a Mariners player had hit three home runs in one game at T-Mobile Park.
Raleigh then stepped in for his first at-bat Tuesday and homered again. The solo shot was his 18th home run of the season and his fourth in four official at-bats.
The streak did not end immediately after the record-tying blast. Raleigh walked in the fourth inning, keeping the consecutive-at-bat home run mark intact because a walk does not count as an at-bat. He struck out against Nola in the sixth, ending the run at four.
That tied Cameron’s franchise mark from one of the most famous power displays in major-league history. Cameron hit four home runs in a single game against the Chicago White Sox in 2002, becoming just the 13th player at the time to accomplish the feat.
A sharp reversal after a difficult season
The timing made Raleigh’s burst especially striking. AP reported that he entered the Philadelphia series batting .159 with 14 home runs, a dramatic step back from his historic 2025 campaign.
Last season, Raleigh led the American League with 60 home runs, set a single-season franchise record and finished second in AL Most Valuable Player voting. The official MLB player page also lists him as the 2025 Home Run Derby winner, an All-Star, Silver Slugger and first-team All-MLB selection.
But 2026 brought an oblique injury that sent him to the injured list in May, followed by a prolonged struggle at the plate. Even after Tuesday’s homer, his season average remained below .170.
That context is what makes the four-at-bat streak so compelling. Raleigh did not merely add to an already dominant season. He produced one of the hottest two-night stretches in Mariners history while trying to find his way back from months of frustration.
How rare was the two-game power surge?
Raleigh’s four home runs over the two games left him one short of Seattle’s record for homers in a two-game span. Edgar Martinez hit five across two games in May 1999, according to AP.
Raleigh also became the first Mariner since Kenji Johjima in 2006 to hit four home runs over consecutive games. The club’s official record book shows the scale of Raleigh’s place in team history: his 60 homers in 2025 remain the franchise’s single-season standard.
One scorching series cannot erase an uneven season, and the Mariners still need sustained production rather than one spectacular burst. But for four consecutive at-bats, the version of Raleigh who rewrote the record book in 2025 returned — and he matched a Seattle mark that had stood for more than 24 years.
What comes next
Seattle and Philadelphia are scheduled to close the series Wednesday. Raleigh’s home-run streak is over, but the larger question remains open: was this a brief flash, or the beginning of a late-season turnaround?
After four straight at-bats ended with baseballs leaving the park, that question suddenly feels far more interesting than it did two days ago.
