On Thursday, as Cal Raleigh landed on the injured list for the first time in his accomplished career, I kept coming back to the same sad scene. It was Oct. 20, 2025, and Raleigh stood in a cramped and melancholic clubhouse. Minutes earlier, the Mariners’ season — Raleigh’s record-breaking season — had abruptly ended, trampled by the bullish Toronto Blue Jays . When Julio Rodríguez swung through an 88-mph slider to seal Seattle’s 4-3 loss, Raleigh was left standing on deck.   Now, he was standing still as a statue, arms crossed, eyes red and watering, whispered words splitting the silence. “It was a great team effort. I love every guy in this room,” said Raleigh, whose 65 regular-season and playoff home runs were the most in American League history. “But ultimately it’s not what we wanted. I hate to use the word ‘failure,’ but it’s a failure. That’s what we expected, to get to a World Series and win a World Series.…