{"id":2517521,"date":"2026-07-26T03:31:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2517521"},"modified":"2026-07-26T03:31:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:31:43","slug":"with-318th-homer-royals-salvador-perez-sets-club-mark-wkzo-everything-kalamazoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/with-318th-homer-royals-salvador-perez-sets-club-mark-wkzo-everything-kalamazoo\/","title":{"rendered":"With 318th homer, Royals\u2019 Salvador Perez sets club mark | WKZO | Everything Kalamazoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Salvador Perez, who hit the first home run of his career at Comerica Park in Detroit in 2011, set the Kansas City Royals\u2019 \u200ball-time record with No. 318 on Saturday at \u200cthe same venue.<\/p>\n<p>In the Royals\u2019 3-2 win over the Tigers, Perez tied the game at 2 in the seventh inning with a 401-foot solo shot to left off right-handed reliever Kyle Finnegan.<\/p>\n<p>Perez\u2019s \u200cblast \u200bbroke a tie with Hall of \u2060Famer George Brett, who \u2060hit 317 homers for Kansas City from 1973-93. Like Brett, Perez has played his entire career with the Royals since debuting in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think for everybody, \u200bhe\u2019s the type of player everybody wants to be,\u201d Perez said of Brett. \u201cHall of Famer. Everybody loves \u2060George in Kansas City. When \u2060you\u2019re around a name like him, it\u2019s \u200bpretty special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The celebration continued in the dugout, where Perez put \u200bon a broadcast headset and was surprised with a \u200crecorded tribute from Brett, who is in Cooperstown, N.Y., for Sunday\u2019s Hall of Fame induction ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, we played in different eras, but I think we got \u2060a lot in common,\u201d Brett said. \u201cPlaying for the name on the front of the jersey. Wanting to be on the \u2060field no matter \u200cwhat. And most importantly, hating to lose. \u2060So today, I\u2019m as proud as \u200bever to \u200cshare a spot in Royals history \u200bwith you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u206036-year-old is batting .210 with 15 homers and 44 RBIs in 98 games this season. He is a nine-time All-Star and a five-time Gold Glove catcher.<\/p>\n<p>In 1,805 games with Kansas City, Perez has hit .261 with 748 runs and 1,060 \u200bRBIs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Field Level Media<\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- #entry-meta -->\n<\/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 wkzo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salvador Perez, who hit the first home run of his career at Comerica Park in Detroit in 2011, set the Kansas City Royals\u2019 \u200ball-time record with No. 318 on Saturday at \u200cthe same venue. In the Royals\u2019 3-2 win over the Tigers, Perez tied the game at 2 in the seventh inning with a 401-foot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2517522,"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-2517521","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\/With-318th-homer-Royals-Salvador-Perez-sets-club-mark.JPG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517521","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=2517521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2517523,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517521\/revisions\/2517523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2517522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2517521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2517521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2517521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}