{"id":766397,"date":"2026-07-31T16:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/766397\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T16:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:15:17","slug":"royals-to-honor-salvador-perez-as-franchise-home-run-king-at-kauffman-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/766397\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals to honor Salvador Perez as franchise home run king at Kauffman Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) &#8211; Salvador Perez is now the greatest home run hitter in Kansas City Royals history, and the team wants fans there to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Perez hit his 318th career home run on July 25 in Detroit, passing Hall of Famer George Brett (317) to become the franchise\u2019s all-time home run leader. The Royals will honor the milestone with a pregame ceremony on Tuesday, Aug. 4, before the team hosts the Minnesota Twins at Kauffman Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Kansas City Royals' Salvador Perez celebrates after hitting a two-run home run to tie George...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LOFMXIW3MFFOFPTTD5SUJAAVSU.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"653\" \/>Kansas City Royals&#8217; Salvador Perez celebrates after hitting a two-run home run to tie George Brett&#8217;s franchise record with 317 home runs during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants, Wednesday, July 22, 2026, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo\/Charlie Riedel)(Charlie Riedel | AP Photo\/Charlie Riedel)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fans are encouraged to be in their seats by 6:15 p.m. to catch the full celebration. The Royals are offering discounted tickets starting at $13 using promo code SALVY318, and the first 13,000 fans through the gates will receive a collectible poster marking the historic achievement.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) &#8211; Salvador Perez is now the greatest home run hitter in Kansas City Royals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,1184,20626,25909,936,2123,55,2596,2595,3183,60,4,252,38686,373,94775],"class_list":["post-766397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-baseball","tag-franchise-record","tag-george-brett","tag-home-run-record","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-kauffman-stadium","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-royals","tag-royals-history","tag-salvador-perez","tag-salvy31"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117015486604501431","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}