For the first time in the history of baseball, a catcher has won the Home Run Derby... and he is a Seattle Mariner! On Monday night, Cal Raleigh's historic season just became a little more iconic with the Big Dumper earning a Home Run Derby championship, becoming the first Mariner since Ken Griffey Jr. did so three times during the 1990's.

The euphoria, the dominance, the creeping paranoia of when it might all come to a sudden halt. It's baseball, after all. Failure isn't just present; it takes control of the wheel. It's a corrosive companion,

With his father pitching to him and his brother catching, the slugger nicknamed Big Dumper survives the first round via tiebreaker, defeats Pittsburgh’s Oneil Cruz in the semifinals and outlasts