Mariners' Cal Raleigh hit his 61st home run to a guy with the perfect shirt originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Cal Raleigh was due.

Merch with his quote — "might as well go win the whole (expletive) thing" — quickly led to a bestseller for Simply Seattle, a retailer that sells licensed sports apparel and the not-so-occasional cheeky T-shirt.

For a dedicated fan base starved for success after so many years of falling short, this Mariners’ run has taken on a greater meaning.

Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh hit his 61st home run during Game 3 of the ALDS Tuesday night against the Detroit Tigers, and it was caught by a fan wearing a “Dump 61 Here" shirt.

And Raleigh was pure class during the interaction. According to The Athletic, the fan offered to give the No. 61 homer ball back to Raleigh, who not only declined, but signed the ball and gave the fan a signed bat.

After the game, Raleigh posed alongside the fan with an autographed bat that read: "Jameson, thanks for cheering us on and catching 61."

DETROIT — Jameson Turner wasn’t planning on traveling to Detroit to watch his Seattle Mariners take on the Tigers in Game 3 of the American League Divisional Series. But the shirts Turner made at the end of the season for catcher Cal Raleigh were begging to be worn.

With their 10-3 pasting of the Toronto Blue Jays, leaving a sell-out crowd at the Rogers Centre grumbling often, booing intermittently and exiting early, the Mariners took a 2-0 lead in the ALCS, moving closer to appearing in their first World Series in franchise history.