KANSAS CITY. – Kansas City Royals slugger Salvador Perez tied Johnny Bench’s record for homers in a season by a catcher with his 45th in a 7-2 misfortune to the Oakland Athletics on Thursday.

Perez hit a two-run homer in the principal inning, matching with Bench’s complete from 1970 for the most by an essentially 75% player of his group’s games at catcher. Perez is attached with Toronto’s Vladimir Guerrero Jr. for the significant association lead in homers and furthermore drives the bigs with 112 RBIs.

“We’re witnessing a special season,” manager Mike Matheny said. “We’re witnessing a special player. To be able to be put in the conversation with one most would say is the best ever is pretty rare.”
His ability isn’t lost on the opposition.

“Salvador, it seems like he’s hitting a home run a day against everybody,” Oakland manager Bob Melvin said. “You can’t miss against him right now.”

Perez, 31, is three homers from coordinating with Jorge Soler’s group record from 2019. Soler expanded the Royals’ record by 10. Perez additionally tied Mike Sweeney for second on the club’s untouched rundown with 197 homers. George Brett holds the club record with 317.

Subsequent to bobbing back from an elbow injury that made him miss the entirety of the 2019 season with an elbow injury, Perez has been on a tear. His 56 homers in 2020 and 2021 are the most in MLB over that range, while his 144 RBIs rank third.

On the off chance that Perez, Guerrero and Shohei Ohtani (44) – from Venezuela, Canada and Japan, individually – are on the grand slam leaderboard until the season’s end, it will be the initial time in MLB history that the best three pioneers were completely brought into the world external the United States, as indicated by the Elias Sports Bureau.