{"id":2517654,"date":"2026-07-26T07:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2517654"},"modified":"2026-07-26T07:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:24:13","slug":"perez-passes-brett-with-318-homers-as-a-kansas-city-royal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/perez-passes-brett-with-318-homers-as-a-kansas-city-royal\/","title":{"rendered":"Perez passes Brett with 318 homers as a Kansas City Royal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp \">Jul 25, 2026, 03:31 PM ET<\/span><\/div>\n<p>DETROIT &#8212; <a target=\"_blank\" data-player-guid=\"7e10b059-be78-960b-bc8d-c18c8057c297\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/31127\/salvador-perez\">Salvador Perez<\/a> hit his 318th career home run Saturday, breaking George Brett&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"11a5df00-0945-35a5-66fe-a3a107975558\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/kc\/kansas-city-royals\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> franchise record with a solo shot in a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/game\/_\/gameId\/401816254\/royals-tigers\">3-2 victory<\/a> over the <a target=\"_blank\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"b27c64bf-4f18-f713-ba06-db1bce2394e7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-tigers\">Detroit Tigers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With the Royals trailing 2-1, Perez led off the seventh inning with his 401-foot homer off <a target=\"_blank\" data-player-guid=\"67d0d6bd-ce78-edfd-be8c-55bb92a28841\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36543\/kyle-finnegan\">Kyle Finnegan<\/a> over the Tigers&#8217; bullpen in left. It was his 31st career homer against Detroit, trailing only the 36 he has hit against the <a target=\"_blank\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"a6e97b3f-4244-98be-79a2-f4b33f3365e6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-twins\">Minnesota Twins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Perez received an ovation from the Comerica Park crowd after the record was announced.<\/p>\n<p>Brett, seen on a video message posted on the club&#8217;s social media channels after the home run, held the franchise record for 40 years, having passed Amos Otis with his 194th home run April 9, 1986.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From one \ud83d\udc10 to another. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yjl1I6md9B\">https:\/\/t.co\/yjl1I6md9B<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FeMYddZZWc\">pic.twitter.com\/FeMYddZZWc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kansas City Royals (@Royals) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Royals\/status\/2081092255620689985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s unbelievable,&#8221; Perez said in his postgame, on-field interview on Royals TV. &#8220;It&#8217;s a lot of emotion right now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know I was going to make it this far in my career. And I thank my teammates for their support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perez&#8217;s 318 homers for the Royals ranks third among active players who have played for only one team. <a target=\"_blank\" data-player-guid=\"e1be67bf-3688-8bd6-9bd6-c01d0e34e119\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/30836\/mike-trout\">Mike Trout<\/a> has 422 homers for the <a target=\"_blank\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"053868c7-8bff-5edb-3cb6-f5490f33ef99\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/laa\/los-angeles-angels\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a>, and <a target=\"_blank\" data-player-guid=\"e3e39e69-2861-f5b5-49be-b0880534c802\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33192\/aaron-judge\">Aaron Judge<\/a> has 385 for the <a target=\"_blank\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"2b9cedf3-ce60-0bcf-fafe-8cd055255685\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nyy\/new-york-yankees\">New York Yankees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are my family, my brothers,&#8221; Perez said of his teammates who stood behind him during the interview. &#8220;Thank you for your support. Thank you for competing with me every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\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 www.espn.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 25, 2026, 03:31 PM ET DETROIT &#8212; Salvador Perez hit his 318th career home run Saturday, breaking George Brett&#8217;s Kansas City Royals franchise record with a solo shot in a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers. With the Royals trailing 2-1, Perez led off the seventh inning with his 401-foot homer off Kyle Finnegan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2517655,"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-2517654","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\/Perez-passes-Brett-with-318-homers-as-a-Kansas-City.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517654","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=2517654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2517656,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517654\/revisions\/2517656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2517655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2517654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2517654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2517654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}