Mariners clinch AL West title, Cal Raleigh hits 60th homer and Rockies lose 115th game

The Seattle Mariners were crowned kings of the American League West on Wednesday night as catcher Cal Raleigh hit his th and th home runs of the season The mighty Mariners who mashed five solo home runs at raucous T-Mobile Park clinched their title by drubbing Major League Baseball s doormat aka the Colorado Rockies - The Mariners who won their first division title since are - over their last games Raleigh s th homer came off Rockies starter Tanner Gordon in the first inning The switch-hitter s th came in the eighth off right-handed reliever Angel Chivilli making Raleigh one of just seven players to hit or more home runs in a season Raleigh is now just two homers from the AL single-season record of home runs set by Yankees slugger Aaron Judge in Raleigh s historic night it was his th multi-homer event of the season overshadowed starter Luis Castillo s near-perfect night Over innings the Seattle right-hander allowed one run on one hit struck out and walked none He made the Rockies look helpless The one hit Castillo allowed was a two-out solo homer to Blaine Crim in the fourth When Castillo departed the mound the partying crowd gave him a prolonged standing ovation The Rockies who have not won back-to-back games since Aug slid to - Their run differential stands at an astronomical minus- with four games remaining in their season The Rockies own the worst run differential in a season since obliterating the Red Sox s mark of minus- differential Gordon s final start of the season was a dud The right-hander pitched just innings giving up seven runs five earned on eight hits Three of those hits were solo home runs and they all came in the first inning Raleigh started it off with a -foot blast to the third deck in right field Julio Rodriguez right away followed with a -foot shot to left field his nd Next up Jorge Polanco who hit a two-out -foot homer down the right-field line his th Gordon had flashed promise in his previous seven starts five quality going - with a ERA But the powerful Mariners punished Gordon and he finished his season - with a ERA Thursday s pitching matchup Rockies RHP Bradley Blalock - - ERA at Mariners TBA p m Thursday T-Mobile Park TV Rockies TV streaming Comcast Xfinity channel DirecTV Spectrum or depending on region Radio AM FM Trending Entering Wednesday night s event at Seattle first baseman Blaine Crim had hit safely in nine of his first games with the Rockies batting -for- with four home runs and RBIs Crim s RBIs are the third-most in franchise history through a participant s first games with the club trailing Andres Galarraga RBIs and Trevor Story RBIs Crim Story Miguel Olivo and Ellis Burks are the only players in franchise history with at least hits and four home runs through their first games with the club Pitching probables Friday Rockies RHP German Marquez - at Giants Kai-Wei Teng - p m Saturday Rockies LHP Kyle Freeland - at Giants RHP Trevor McDonald - p m Patrick Saunders The Denver Post