ATLANTA -- Cal Raleigh his major-league-leading 53rd home run, and the Seattle Mariners had 20 hits as they scored their most runs since 2012 in an 18-2 rout of the Atlanta Braves on Sunday.

Raleigh needs one home run to match Mickey Mantle (54 in 1961) for the most by a switch-hitter in a season in MLB history, according to ESPN Research.

Eugenio Suarez homered twice, raising his season total to 45, and Jorge Polanco and Josh Naylor also went deep as the Mariners hit five homers in consecutive games for the second time in team history, the first since May 20-21, 1994.

Polanco and Naylor homered in an eight-run third inning, and Raleigh hit a three-run drive in a seven-run ninth, giving him 113 RBIs. Suárez hit a solo homer in the sixth and a two-run shot in the ninth for h

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