One of the few Mariners fans in a crowd of Tigers fans in Detroit had a very specific request for Cal Raleigh on Tuesday night. Raleigh was happy to oblige.

Raleigh entered the ninth inning of Tuesday’s ALDS Game 3 on a sizzling playoff streak, hitting 5 for 12 with an RBI in two-plus games. But Big Dumper had yet to do what he does best — hit a home run.

That changed in the ninth. With his Mariners holding a 6-1 lead, Raleigh punctuated an 8-4 win with his first home run of the postseason, a two-run opposite-field shot that cleared the left-centerfield wall.

It was a powerful exclamation point on a game that gave the Mariners a 2-1 series lead to move within a win of the ALCS. But what happened after Raleigh’s contact was even more remarkable.

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The ball bounced into the bullpen and up toward the first row of the outfield stands. There, an opportunistic fan snagged the ball with his glove. Said fan was the only Mariners fan sitting in a sea of Tigers fans.

And his shirt conveyed the aforementioned specific request. The Mariners teal shirt read “DUMP 61 HERE” in large silver font.

That’s exactly what Raleigh did. After a historic, 60-home run campaign in the regular season, Raleigh dumped his 61st of 2025 directly where the fan asked for it.

And the fan, who later introduced himself to reporters as Jameson Turner, was ready for more. He stripped his shirt to reveal another that read “DUMP 62 HERE.”

That ask, alas, proved to be too much. Raleigh didn’t have another at-bat. Maybe Turner will have another shot in Wednesday’s Game 4.

“I wasn’t gonna go to tomorrow’s game, but I might have to change my plans,” Turner told reporters postgame.

Turner is a Las Vegas resident who was born in Longview, Washington and attended Auburn High School in the Seattle suburbs. He said that he made his shirts and took them on a trip to Seattle to attend the Mariners’ regular-season finale.

After Raleigh failed to hit a home run in that game, he traveled with them to Detroit for Wednesday’s Game 3, where he secured a prime seat to snag the ball. He described the moment before he caught it.

“I told the lady next to me. I said, ‘OK, this is my shot,” Turner said. “He’s gonna hit me a home run right now.’ And it landed in the bullpen and bounced right up to me. I caught it in my glove, so like, I’m still in shock.”

The Mariners players warming up in the bullpen below were just as shocked as he was.

“Yeah, they were loving it,” Turner continued. “They were just all giving me thumbs-up, like they couldn’t believe it, either.”

A shot at home run No. 62 will have to wait. In the meantime, Turner will surely settle for home run ball No. 61, a meet-and-greet with Raleigh and an autographed bat from his hero.