Raleigh's 3-HR night powers Mariners past Phillies

In the long arc of a baseball season, there are nights when a player sheds the weight of struggle and reminds everyone — including himself — what he is capable of. On a late-August evening in Seattle, catcher Cal Raleigh hit three home runs in a single game for the first time in his career, carrying the Mariners past the Philadelphia Phillies and snapping their winning streak. It was the kind of performance that does not merely win a game but reorders the possibilities of a season, arriving precisely when it was needed most.