Tim Kurkjian

They are built to win the World Series.

And it's just incredible.

They're playing their best baseball right now.

Jerry DiPoto, the general manager of the Mariners, told me a couple weeks ago, he said the reason everybody loves Cal Raleigh is he looks like the guy who comes over to your house to fix your air conditioner or comes over to fix your plumbing.

He looks like the rest of us, but he just happens to be a great baseball player.

But that's one reason that he has become a folk hero in the great Northwest is in some ways he looks like us.

But he's different than us.

He's different than everyone.

Dan, no switch hitter had ever hit 20 homers in a season from each side of the plate until he came along.

Of course, no switch hitter had ever hit 55.

He hit 60.

No catcher had ever hit 50.

He hit 60.

No mariner had ever hit more than Ken Griffey Jr.

He did that, and he looks like the air conditioner repairman.

Yeah, Dan, that play has never happened in the history of baseball.

I'm pretty certain about that.

Jason Stark did all of this research and Project Score Sheet and all these people got involved.

I just can't.

cannot understand how that play could have happened.