MINNEAPOLIS — Julio Rodriguez and Luke Raley hit long home runs to power a six-run third inning, and Cal Raleigh homered for the fourth day in a row as Mariners’ hot start to a long road trip continued in an 11-2 romp over the Minnesota Twins on Monday.

Raleigh’s extended his major-league home-run lead with his 32nd blast of the season, this one coming off Twins reliever Joey Wentz in the ninth inning to put the exclamation point on another offensive barrage for the Mariners, who walloped the Cubs 14-6 on Sunday.

Mariners fans sitting behind the visitors’ dugout serenaded Raleigh with “MVP!” chants as he rounded the bases at Target Field.

Raleigh has homered in four straight games for the first time in his career.

Dominic Canzone added a 407-foot blast in the sixth inning to give the Mariners a 7-0 lead off Minnesota’s Bailey Ober. It was Canzone’s third homer in the past two games.

Rodriguez’s homer was his first since May 27, snapping a streak of 103 at-bats without one, and it wasn’t cheap. He turned on an Ober changeup and sent it off the facade of Target Field’s second deck for a two-run shot, a 112-mph blast estimated at 442 feet — his 11th homer of the season and longest by distance.

Four batters later, Raley’s three-run homer was nearly as impressive. He ambushed a first-pitch fastball and crushed int 436 feet out to right-center for his first homer since returning Friday from a seven-week stint on the injured list with an oblique strain.

Bryan Woo matched his career high with nine strikeouts, allowing just two solo homers to back-to-back batters, Trevor Larnach and Carlos Correa, in the sixth inning.

Woo has thrown six innings in all 15 of his starts this season, the only MLB pitcher to do so.

The Mariners (40-37) won for the third time in four games on this 10-game trip and pulled within 4.5 games on the idle Houston Astros atop the AL West.

In three games at Wrigley Field over the weekend, the M’s launched 10 homers in scorching-hot conditions in Chicago.

First pitch in Minneapolis on Monday night was, by comparison, a refreshing 80 degrees. The Mariners’ bats didn’t cool off nearly as much.

The M’s improved to 33-11 when they score at least four runs.

The Twins (37-41) have lost 10 of 11.

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