The Venezuelan reached his fourth game with at least one hit and Kansas City celebrated for the second straight.
The bigleaguer has set the Royals’ times on both the offensive and defensive sides. With the wood he has been unstoppable, to the point of being the Venezuelan with the most indisputable so far this season with (49).
The others who follow him are José Altuve (47), David Peralta (47), Miguel Rojas (45) and Ronald Acuña Jr., who closes the Top 5 with 43 hits.
“We have celebrated a lot with Salvador,” shared Mike Matheny after the victory last Sunday, a game in which the mask sounded a pair of hits in three home plate appearances.
Pérez has worked in recent years on his offensive mechanics and the results in 2020 and 2021 have supported those exercises.
Last year he hit his highest average with a .333 average, while in the month and a half of this year he has a .280, the highest number among MLB receivers with at least 130 appearances.
In addition, the Creole also leads among receivers in the RBI line with (27) and shares fifth place in runs (20) with Tucker Barnhart and Mike Zunino.
Kansas City clung to the Creole and from there they have sought to fight for the Central Division of the American League with a mark of (24-20). The record of the last 10 JJ with the criollo in the lineup has been positive, adding six victories that leaves them four games behind the first place.
In the month of May, Salvador has left behind the April numbers and this has led the manager, Mike Matheny, to move him to fourth place in the team’s offensive lineup.
