PHILADELPHIA -- Salvador Perez stepped closer to two career milestones with his first home run on Saturday night… and then made it to both with his second home run of the night.

With his solo blast in the third inning during the Royals’ game against the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park on Saturday, Perez reached his 300th career home run and 1,000th career RBI.

The swing made Perez the eighth primary catcher (min. 75% of games caught in their career) in MLB history to reach 300 home runs, joining Hall of Famers Mike Piazza, Johnny Bench, Carlton Fisk, Yogi Berra, Gary Carter and Iván Rodríguez, as well as eight-time All-Star Lance Parrish, who is not in the Hall.

Perez drove a cutter from Phillies starter Taijuan Walker out to the left-center-field seats for a two-run home run in th

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