Seattle (MLB Network) – Nearly a century has passed since 1927, but baseball history has witnessed a chilling coincidence: Seattle Mariners star Cal Raleigh repeated the exact same feat as the legendary Babe Ruth 98 years earlier – hitting 60 home runs, hitting his 61st HR in the postseason, on October 7, in a win that their teams scored exactly 8 runs.
The MLB community is calling this a “whisper of time” – a rare moment when past and present intersect right in the middle of the season.
According to data posted by statistician Alex Mayer, only two players in MLB history have ever hit exactly 60 home runs in a season, then added their 61st home run in the postseason in an 8-run win – Babe Ruth (July 10, 1927) and Cal Raleigh (July 10, 2025).
What makes fans even more chilling is:
Both hit their 61st home run in the final inning of the game, Both teams won decisively, And both games were played on October 7, exactly 98 years apart.
One fan wrote on social media platform X (formerly Twitter): “Unbelievable! Maybe Babe Ruth’s spirit was with Cal Raleigh in that moment.”
The historic game took place at T-Mobile Park, when the Mariners faced the Rangers in the postseason series. In the eighth inning, with the score 7-6 in favor of Seattle, Cal Raleigh stepped up to bat to a roar from the stands.
His powerful swing sent the ball soaring into the night sky, over the centerfield fence – his 61st home run of the season. The Mariners made it 8-6, and that was the final score, sealing the victory that sent Seattle into a frenzy.
“As soon as the ball left the bat, I felt something different,” Raleigh said in the postgame press conference. “I wasn’t thinking about the number. But when I got back to the dugout, everyone was screaming, ‘Sixty-one! Sixty-one!’ And then when I found out it was Babe Ruth, I got goosebumps.”
MLB experts called it “a never-to-be-repeat event.” Commentator Ken Rosenthal wrote in The Athletic: “If Babe Ruth symbolized the birth of modern baseball, Cal Raleigh has just rekindled it in the 21st century. This is more than just a statistic—it’s a moment of destiny.”
Meanwhile, Mariners fans believe this is a “lucky sign” for the team’s playoff run. One fan account wrote: “1927 was the year the Yankees dominated. 2025 will be the year Seattle writes its own legend.”
In the stands, thousands of fans burst into tears, many holding up photos of Babe Ruth and Cal Raleigh paired together—two generations, two souls, sharing a single eternal day in MLB history.
Cal Raleigh, 27, is entering his prime. With 60 home runs in the regular season and 61 in the postseason, he has become part of history—the first since Babe Ruth to do so.
“Sometimes baseball is strange,” Raleigh smiled. “There are things that can’t be explained – they can only be felt. And today, I felt like I was playing with a legend.”
Nearly a century after Babe Ruth, the name Cal Raleigh rings like a bell connecting two worlds – where the history, the faith and the magic of baseball are still intact. And on that night of October 7, 2025, MLB saw it again: legends never die – they are just reborn, in one perfect swing.
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