Kansas City’s Mark Teahen plows into Minnesota’s Jose Morales (58) as he is thrown out at home while trying to score from first on a double by Jose Guillen in the eighth inning. Regardless, the Royals won, 7-5, Sunday in Minneapolis.

Minneapolis ? Sitting in the Kansas City dugout watching Scott Baker go for a no-hitter, Willie Bloomquist and the Royals wondered aloud how to hex the Minnesota ace.

“We were trying every way possible to jinx him every inning,” Bloomquist said.

Whatever they did right before the seventh inning sure worked.

Bloomquist ended Baker’s no-hit bid with a single, Jose Guillen connected for a three-run homer in the same inning, and the Royals rallied past Minnesota, 7-5, on Sunday.

Guillen’s three-run shot accounted for the first runs off Baker (0-4), who flirted with Minnesota’s first no-hitter since 1999. But he gave up five consecutive hits in the seventh and failed to record an out as the Royals overcame their largest deficit this season.

It was the second time Baker had a brush with history against Kansas City. He took a perfect game into the ninth inning on Aug. 31, 2007, at the Metrodome before issuing a leadoff walk to John Buck and allowing a one-out single by pinch-hitter Mike Sweeney.

The right-hander finished that game with a one-hitter. This time was a much different outcome.

“A little frustrating, obviously,” Baker said. “Just try to take what you can take positively from the outing and just kind of go from there.”

Guillen drove in four runs, and Kansas City starter Gil Meche (2-2) lasted six innings and a season-high 116 pitches.