Oakland, Calif. ? Kendrys Morales and Alex Gordon homered to back Edinson Volquez, and the Kansas City Royals beat the Oakland Athletics 5-2 on Friday night.

Unlike when these two teams met in April, when there were bench-clearing scuffles in all three games, there were no signs of lingering animosity. A few players from both clubs exchanged hugs and handshakes before the game, and both managers downplayed talk of any carry-over effect.

Instead the Royals rode the power of Morales and Gordon, and got another strong outing from Volquez.

Pitching against the A’s for the first time since 2007, Volquez (8-4) gave up three hits and one run in seven innings. Volquez also reached 1,000 strikeouts for his career when he fanned Brett Lawrie in the sixth.

Sam Fuld had an RBI double for Oakland, which had its five-game win streak snapped.

Greg Holland retired two batters for his 15th save.

It was these teams’ first meeting since that wild series in April.

Lawrie was at the center of much of it when the teams played in Kansas City. His hard slide into second base knocked Royals shortstop Alcides Escobar out of the first game. Two days later, Kansas City reliever Kelvin Herrera was ejected after throwing a 100-mph fastball behind Lawrie.

Herrera was booed heavily when he entered Friday’s game but pitched the eighth without incident.

Franklin Morales hit Oakland catcher Stephen Vogt with a pitch in the ninth. Beyond that, there was nothing to suggest there was any animosity left between the teams. Oakland slugger Billy Butler hugged former teammate Eric Hosmer behind home plate during batting practice, and both managers were reluctant to even discuss the incident.

“Nobody on my team has even mentioned it or thought about it, and I doubt very seriously anybody over there has,” Royals manager Ned Yost said before the game. “There’s been a lot of time since that series and a lot of water under the bridge.”

Morales homered off A’s starter Jesse Hahn in the second, his ninth of the season.

Lorenzo Cain’s two-out single in the third made it 2-0, and Hosmer followed with an infield single to drive in Escobar. Oakland first baseman Ike Davis fielded Hosmer’s grounder but made a botched flip to Hahn (5-6) covering first base for an error, allowing Cain to score from second.

Fuld doubled in Marcus Semien in the third. Ben Zobrist added an RBI double for Oakland off Franklin Morales in the ninth.

Gordon hit his ninth homer with two outs in the sixth.

Hahn allowed five runs and nine hits in six innings. He struck out five and walked one.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Royals: Cain was back in the lineup after sitting out Wednesday’s game in Seattle with a sore hamstring. … LHP Jason Vargas (flexor strain) is scheduled to throw on the side again and “continues to make progress,” according to Yost.

UP NEXT

Royals: RHP Chris Young (6-3) starts the middle game of the series and is coming off his worst outing of the season, when he gave up seven runs in 4 2-3 innings against Boston.

Athletics: LHP Scott Kazmir (4-4) has a 1.27 ERA in six starts at the Coliseum this season, the lowest mark at home in the majors.