They are riding in the passenger’s seat on the highway to history. They are staring at the sights whizzing by them, and it feels as breathtaking as rolling past Mount Rushmore.

Except these aren’t your normal travelers. These are the Seattle Mariners, riding the Cal Raleigh Express in 2025. And these are no monuments and mountain peaks they are rolling past. These are legends — the legends of baseball. And Raleigh’s teammates are watching their catcher roar past them all.

Johnny Bench … Ken Griffey Jr. … and even an icon named Mickey Mantle.

The 28-year-old Mariners catcher has chased down all of them. Passing Bench, whose record for most home runs in a season by a catcher (45, in 1970) stood for over 50 years, until Salvador Perez broke it in 2021. … Pulling into a tie with Griffey for

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