Raleigh hits 2 HRs for 29, breaks Bench's record

CHICAGO -- Cal Raleigh broke Johnny Bench's grounds for location runs by a catcher earlier the All-Star break, hitting his major-league-leading 28th and 29th successful the Seattle Mariners' 9-4 victory implicit the Chicago Cubs connected Friday.

Raleigh broke a necktie successful the seventh with No. 29 to determination up of Hall of Famer Bench's 1970 mark.

It was Raleigh's 5th go-ahead location tally successful the seventh inning oregon aboriginal this season, the astir successful MLB.

Raleigh had 3 hits successful his sixth multi-homer crippled of the season, which tied Mike Piazza (1995) for the second-most multi-homer games by a catcher successful a season. Raleigh has played successful 73 games, portion Piazza did truthful successful 112 games. Javy Lopez (2003) leads each catchers successful multi-homer games successful a season, hitting 8 successful 129 games.

Raleigh, 28, drove successful 3 runs to propulsion his play full to 63.

Mitch Garver besides homered doubly and drove successful 5 runs, putting it distant with a three-run changeable successful the ninth. Randy Arozarena and Donovan Solano each had 3 hits to assistance Seattle triumph for the 5th clip successful 7 games.

The teams combined for six homers with the upwind blowing retired connected a lukewarm time erstwhile erstwhile Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa returned to Wrigley Field for the archetypal clip successful implicit 20 years.

Ian Happ homered successful Chicago's three-run archetypal inning, and Reese McGuire added a solo shot. Michael Busch had 3 hits and 2 RBIs arsenic the NL Central-leading Cubs dropped their 2nd straight.

Raleigh deed his go-ahead thrust to the backmost of the left-field bleachers disconnected Caleb Thielbar (2-2). Raleigh sent his archetypal homer conscionable implicit the handbasket successful the archetypal disconnected Matthew Boyd.

Eduard Bazardo (2-0) pitched a scoreless sixth for the win.

Boyd made a melodramatic drawback of J.P. Crawford's comebacker for the last retired successful the apical of the fifth. Boyd snared the liner astatine the past instant arsenic it was headed for his face.

Chicago's Pete Crow-Armstrong popped retired softly 3 times and struck retired a time aft going heavy and becoming the archetypal subordinate with 20 homers and 20 steals this season.

Seattle RHP Emerson Hancock (3-2, 4.48 ERA) is acceptable to look RHP Cade Horton (3-1. 3.47) connected Saturday.

ESPN Research and The Associated Press contributed to this report.