Cal Raleigh Breaks Switch-Hitter Home Run Record in MLB

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00:00But the one number I thought was cool on Raleigh,

00:03most homers by a switch hitter in Major League history

00:06through 75 games.

00:08And the three before him, three under him,

00:11were all Mickey Mantle.

00:12Mantle had, like, the top three seasons

00:15of switch hitting home runs by the All-Star break.

00:17And Raleigh has shattered past all of those.

00:20People are already saying, like,

00:23Will, he hit more home runs than Judge.

00:26And I saw today, some people said,

00:28because he's a catcher, no.

00:31Because eventually the catching takes its toll on the body

00:34in, you know, 162 games.

00:38So do you buy that?

00:40Or is he young enough to keep going?

00:43Well, there's two.

00:44I don't buy that because I think they do a very good job of

00:48they give him a lot of days off, but he still hits.

00:53They DH him a lot.

00:55So he gets in there and just goes up and swings the bat.

00:57And it's very rare he gets a full day off, you know,

01:02maybe once every two weeks because he DH him so much that I think

01:05it manages the amount of catching that he does back there.

01:09So I think that that's going to help him.

01:11But we saw this with Judge a couple years ago when he did it.

01:15I think it just mentally takes a toll on you no matter what you do out there,

01:20right?

01:21When you start getting to those, you get to September and it's such a long

01:24grind and you're at 57, 58.

01:28Like, you heard Judge.

01:29I mean, would it take Judge two weeks to finally get that last one because he

01:32was, you know, he was just, he was pressing so hard and he wanted to get it

01:36done with.

01:36So I think that's what would hit somebody like Raleigh if he got into that air.

01:41But man, what a start and what a first half he has had.

01:46PCA and Saya Suzuki of the Cubs, the first Cub teammates to have 20 plus homers

01:50before the All-Star break since Rizzo and Bryant in 2016.

01:55How about that for those guys?

01:58Marlins beat the Braves 5-3.

01:59The bad news, the Braves season gets worse.

02:01Chris Sale goes on the I.L. with a fractured rib cage that he hurt in a

02:06Mets start that he had last week.

02:08A fractured rib cage for Chris Sale.

02:10I mean, that just sounds painful.

02:12I've broken ribs and cartilage.

02:14It's the worst.

02:15It is the worst.

02:16You can't do anything.

02:18No.

02:18Brewers beat the Twins 9-8.

02:20How about Yelich on Friday night?

02:22He had eight RBIs in that game.

02:24A franchise record.

02:26Great weekend for Yelich and the Brewers.

02:28And how about this Mizorowski?

02:29This Jacob Mizorowski's now started 2-0, 1.64 ERA at 11 Ks in his first two starts.

02:36And get the popcorn ready for Wednesday.

02:40Yeah.

02:40Skeens versus Mizorowski in Milwaukee, Scotty.

02:44Let's go.

02:45That's a great ticket.

02:46They should get a big full house in Milwaukee for that.

02:48Are they going to have that on national television or like on MLB Network or something Wednesday?

02:54Well, I will tell you now that on Wednesday, they are playing at 2-10 in the afternoon.

02:59And I already see it says MLB Network here.

03:02So, they are putting that game on MLB Network on Wednesday afternoon.

03:05We'll be on for that for at least half of it.

03:08Right.

03:09Yeah.

03:10For most of it.

03:10Right.

03:11We'll be on less than an hour after it starts.

03:13So, we'll get a lot of time in with Skeens and Mizorowski.

03:16Reds beat the Cards 4-1.

03:17This Andrew Abbott's having a hell of a year.

03:19Now has a 1.79 ERA.

03:23The best news is now the Yankees miss him because he pitched yesterday.

03:26So, the Yankees won't see him in Cincinnati over the next couple of days, which I like to see.

03:31Rockies beat the Diamondbacks.

03:33He did it again, Scotty.

03:34He's been on fire.

03:35Cognac.

03:35Forget the Cognac.

03:37Give me the Moniac with a go-ahead two-run homer.

03:40Second deck shot at Coors yesterday afternoon.

03:43Big shot for him.

03:44Phillies beat the Mets 7-1.

03:46Schwarber had a homer.

03:48Edmondo Sosa had a two-run shot.

03:50The Phillies now lead the NL East by a game over the Mets.

03:54Soto had two homers on Saturday night.

03:573-43, eight homers, four doubles, and a 12-43 OPS since May the 30th.

04:02I'd say Soto's gotten going, Scotty, after that week.

04:05Yeah, like, I mean, honestly, over the last 20 and change days, he's playing like he did with the Yankees with that bat.

04:14Yep.

04:14Giants beat the Red Sox 9-5 yesterday.

04:17Devers did homer against him.

04:19It was on Saturday afternoon.

04:21He hit a little oppo taco shot into the left field seats.

04:26So we can all stop talking about that now.

04:28And Rafael Devers can get back to a normal life just playing baseball in San Francisco.

04:32You know, that's all he did against him this weekend.

04:35Yeah, he did nothing else.

04:36And he barely got it out of the park.

04:38It was in, like, the first row and left.

04:40So he did nothing, really, besides that against Boston.

04:44He did nothing else.

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