Slide over, George Brett, there is a new Kansas City Royals all-time chief for house runs, and his identify is Salvador Perez.
Salvador Perez hits house run No. 318
Within the high of the seventh inning of Saturday’s sport in opposition to the Detroit Tigers, Perez launched what wasn’t solely a game-tying house run, but in addition a record-setting one.
It was house run No. 318 of Perez’s profession, and it broke a tie with the aforementioned Brett for essentially the most in Royals franchise historical past.
Perez tied Brett with house run No. 317 on Wednesday. Three days later, he set the file at, fittingly sufficient, the identical ballpark the place he hit his first MLB house run in 2011.
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