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Raleigh

Raleigh drew a walk as well, and scored three runs. He torched a homer off Kade Morris to tie the game at 5-5 in the third inning, and it’s the 21st roundtripper of the season for the backstop. There’s nothing that he can do to call this a quality season over the final three weeks, but this is still nice to see for those who are considering using a draft pick on Raleigh in 2027.

Despite going 2-for-4 with a walk and a home run on Tuesday, Montes will sit against a left-handed pitcher. It’s not a surprise, but is good confirmation that he is going to be in a strong-side platoon role. Taylor Ward will play right field and Dominic Canzone will DH with Cal Raleigh also getting a day off.

Raleigh is certainly making things up in the power department. He took Jose Soriano deep for a solo homer in the second inning to put the Mariners on the board. The home run was his sixth in his last eight games. The 29-year-old slugger is up to 19 homers and 53 RBI while slashing .169/.288/.350 across 424 plate appearances.

After crushing three homers in Monday’s game against the Phillies, Raleigh kept it going on Tuesday, taking Aaron Nola deep for a solo blast to lead off the second inning. He’d get pitched around through the game, drawing a pair of walks. The 29-year-old slugger is up to 18 homers and 52 RBI while slashing .169/.286/.346 across 412 plate appearances.

Raleigh homered in the first and fifth innings off Zack Wheeler and in the seventh off Chase Shugart, driving in four runs in the process. He walked in other plate appearance in the third. Raleigh had 21 career multihomer games coming into the night, including 11 last year, but this is his first in a miserable 2026. It lifted his OPS from .579 to .618, his highest mark since May 5. He now has 17 homers and 51 RBI through 98 games. It’ll be interesting to see if this gets him pushed back up some in the order after he hit sixth tonight.

Leo Rivas had the game-winning hit in the 10th. Unlike his last homer into the Crawford Boxes in Houston on Sunday night, Raleigh’s homer tonight was no cheapy; he hit the ball 410 feet to left center. It was his third farthest-hit ball of the season. He now has 14 homers and 47 RBI in 95 games.

Raleigh has three hits in his last 34 at bats in what has been one of the most disappointing follow-up seasons in baseball history. He’s still walking, but that won’t help most fantasy managers. Jhonny Pereda will grab the start against LHP Robert Gasser today.

The homer, which unfortunately followed a caught stealing from Josh Naylor, was far from a bomb, but it made it into the Crawford Boxes at Daikin Park. Statcast had it at .327 feet and said it would have been a homer in one ballpark. Maybe it’ll give Raleigh some momentum anyway. It was his second hit in seven games and his 13th homer of the year. He still hasn’t had two hits in a game since July 7.

Raleigh’s 2026 might wind up as a bigger outlier than his 2025; his 165 OPS+ from last season is closer to his 117 OPS+ from 2022-24 than is his current 64 OPS+. Raleigh is 1-for-14 in his last five games, leaving him at .159/.264/.299 for the year.

Raleigh has been remarkably consistent this year, keeping his batting average between .160 and .170 since the start of May. Fantasy managers may welcome this off day, and definitely shouldn’t feel married to starting Raleigh down the stretch even if he is still giving the occasional dinger.