Seattle catcher Cal Raleigh smashed two home runs at Kansas City on Tuesday to break Mickey Mantle's Major League Baseball record for the most homers by a switch-hitter in a season.

The 28-year-old American smacked his 55th homer of the campaign, a 419-yard solo blast down the right-field line in the third inning, to break the former New York Yankees star's mark from 1961.

But the curveball from Kansas City pitcher Michael Wacha wasn't the last ball Raleigh would send over an outfield fence.

Raleigh bashed his 56th homer of the season in the fourth inning, a two-run round-tripper to centerfield to give the Mariners a 9-1 lead.

That lifted Raleigh level with Ken Griffey Jr. for the most homers in a season in Mariners history, which Griffey achieved in 1997 and 1998.

Raleigh, who had al

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