KANSAS CITY -- Cal Raleigh officially is having the most powerful year of any switch-hitter in Major League Baseball history.

Raleigh clobbered his 55th home run of the season on Tuesday at Kauffman Stadium, passing Mickey Mantle (1961) for the most in a single season by a switch-hitter in MLB history. His record-setting blast was belted 419 feet down the right-field line, leaving his bat at 109.5 mph on a hanging curveball from the Royals’ Michael Wacha in the third inning. Your browser does not support HTML5 video tag. Click here to view original asset

Big Dumper is now one deep fly shy of matching Ken Griffey Jr. for the most home runs (56) in a season in Mariners history, which Griffey did in both 1997 and ‘98. Raleigh is now just seven homers shy of matching Aaron Judge (62, 20

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