Kansas City, Mo. ? Devon Travis has multiple hits in nine of his past 17 games. This one was different.

Travis hit his second homer of the game in the ninth inning to lift the Toronto Blue Jays over the Kansas City Royals, 4-3, on Friday night.

Travis led off the game with a home run, then ripped a 1-2 pitch from Kelvin Herrera (1-3) into the Royals’ bullpen for his first career multihomer game.

“He’s on a nice little roll right now,” Blue Jays manager Josh Gibbons said. “He can turn around anybody’s fastball, so, he hit two home runs and it’s tough to hit them in this park, you’ve got to earn them.”

Travis hit Herrera’s 97 mph fastball that was high and out of the zone.

“I don’t know how the guy hit that ball,” Herrera said. “I was shocked.”

Travis is not sure how he hit it that far either.

“I kind of blacked out,” Travis said. “I’m going to go look at the tape. I just tried to open my eyes as wide as I can against him. He’s hard enough to see, a hundred (mph fastball) as it is. I’m just thankful everything worked out.”

Left-hander Brett Cecil (1-6) pitched a spotless eighth for the victory.

Francisco Liriano made his first start with the Blue Jays after being acquired in a trade Monday with Pittsburgh and yielded three runs, seven hits and two walks while striking out three. Liriano had allowed 11 runs, 14 hits — including four home runs — and eight walks in 8 1/3 innings while losing his final two starts with the Pirates.

Joaquin Benoit worked the ninth for his first save since Sept. 3 while with the San Diego Padres. Closer Roberto Osuna was unavailable after pitching the previous two days and in three of the past four.

Right-hander Dillon Gee held the Blue Jays to three runs and four hits over six innings. He gave up a leadoff homer to Travis, then worked his way into and out of a bases-loaded jam in the first.

“They’re a great lineup,” Gee said. “I was just trying to give us a chance to win. I was able to do that.”

The Royals have scored three or fewer runs in nine consecutive games, a club record for offensive futility.

“It’s a broken record,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “We just have to find a way to put some runs on the board.”