Kansas City, Mo. ? The Toronto Blue Jays regained their hitting stroke Saturday night.

Shea Hillenbrand hit a tiebreaking homer in the seventh inning, and Aaron Hill had four hits – matching his career-high – and two RBIs to lead the Jays to a 7-5 victory over the Kansas City Royals.

Vernon Wells added three hits and two RBIs for the Blue Jays, who lead the American League with a .292 batting average and a .480 slugging percentage but had hit just .190 in their past four games. They broke out for 15 hits, including six for extra bases, and every starter had at least one hit in this game.

“We’ve been hitting all year,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. “That is not going to disappear.”

Hill had his second career four-hit game – his first since June 20, 2005, against Baltimore – to raise his average to .288.

“I’m not worried about (the offense),” Hill said. “It just happened the past few days everyone struggled a little bit. It was good to see everybody come out swinging.”

The Jays snapped a three-game losing streak, matching their longest skid of the season.

“We know we’re better than this,” Hill said. “This team is so good. We still haven’t even played to our ability in my opinion and a lot of people’s opinion. We’ve done a good job so far, but there is always room for improvement.”

Hillenbrand led off the seventh with a long home run to left off Joel Peralta (1-1), the third Kansas City pitcher who had just entered the game. Russ Adams’ two-out triple scored Hill with the second run of the inning.

It was Hillenbrand’s first home run since June 11, a span of 23 games. He had just one RBI in his previous 13 games.

“I’m not a home run hitter,” he said. “I’ve got 37 RBIs. I haven’t been driving in runs all year.”

His 12th home run, however, was a no doubter.

“He smoked that thing,” Gibbons said.

Peralta threw a 1-0 fastball that Hillenbrand jumped on.

“It was up in the zone and you never want to do that,” Peralta said. “If you make a mistake here, you are going to pay for it.”

The Royals snapped their four-game winning streak, their longest since winning five in a row June 11-16, 2005.

Wells’ RBI single in the first drove in Reed Johnson, who doubled to lead off the game. Wells tripled in the Blue Jays’ three-run third and scored on Gregg Zaun’s double. Wells’ RBI-single in the fourth scored Frank Catalanotto, tying the score at 5-5.

“We started out so well and the expectations got so high,” Wells said. “We had four or five guys hitting .350. The last time I checked, that really hadn’t happened over the course of a season in one lineup ever.

“We will battle through this. Hopefully, we’ll continue this tomorrow. We’re a good team. you’re going to go through your lows and you are going to play some bad baseball here and there. We need to put together a long winning streak.”