Overview
- Perez tied George Brett’s franchise mark with his 317th career home run on Wednesday after a two-run, estimated 437-foot blast that ignited a five-run seventh-inning rally in a 5-4 Kansas City win.
- The ball cleared the fence and fell into the right-center fountains at Kauffman Stadium, where a fan entered the restricted area to retrieve it and was removed by security.
- Kansas City police cited the fan for trespassing in the fountain and then released the individual, according to the Kansas City Police Department.
- The Royals’ official policy explicitly bans entering the fountains and warns violators will be arrested, and stadium attendants or authorities took possession of the home run ball.
- Perez, a long-tenured club leader, publicly urged leniency for the fan and now has opportunities on the team’s upcoming road trip to break Brett’s record outright, raising questions about fan behavior and stadium enforcement going forward.