{"id":2513385,"date":"2026-07-23T00:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T00:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2513385"},"modified":"2026-07-23T00:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T00:29:21","slug":"royals-salvador-perez-hits-317th-homer-ties-george-bretts-club-mark-field-level-media-professional-sports-content-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-salvador-perez-hits-317th-homer-ties-george-bretts-club-mark-field-level-media-professional-sports-content-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals&#8217; Salvador Perez hits 317th homer, ties George Brett&#8217;s club mark &#8211; Field Level Media &#8211; Professional sports content solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Kansas City\u2019s Salvador Perez clubbed a two-run shot in the seventh inning on Wednesday to tie George Brett\u2019s Royals franchise record of 317 career home runs.<\/p>\n<p>Perez\u2019s 437-foot blast in a 5-4 home win over the San Francisco Giants went to the fountains beyond the wall in right-center. The homer off right-hander Landen Roupp pulled the Royals within 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>Perez, who has played all 15 of his major league seasons with Kansas City, has hit three of his 14 homers this season in the last five games.<\/p>\n<p>In an on-field postgame interview, Perez said he was honored to be in the same category as Brett, the Hall of Famer who excelled for the Royals from 1973-93.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody knows what George Brett did here for this city,\u201d Perez said. \u201cTo be (tied with) a Hall of Famer, I\u2019m certainly excited, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perez, 36, is batting just .211 with 43 RBIs in 95 games this season. He is a nine-time All-Star and a five-time Gold Glove catcher.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Field Level Media<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__author--mobile\">\n<div class=\"article__author-profile\">\n<div class=\"author__avatar\">\n                                                                            <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source fieldlevelmedia.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City\u2019s Salvador Perez clubbed a two-run shot in the seventh inning on Wednesday to tie George Brett\u2019s Royals franchise record of 317 career home runs. Perez\u2019s 437-foot blast in a 5-4 home win over the San Francisco Giants went to the fountains beyond the wall in right-center. The homer off right-hander Landen Roupp pulled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2513386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2513385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Royals-Salvador-Perez-hits-317th-homer-ties-George-Bretts-club.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513387,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513385\/revisions\/2513387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2513386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}