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TORONTO -- Josh Donaldson hit two solo home runs, Troy Tulowitzki had a three-run blast and the Toronto Blue Jays connected four times to beat the Kansas City Royals 8-3 on Tuesday night.Fresh off being named a reserve to the AL All-Star team, Donaldson went 3 for 4 and scored four runs while the Blue Jays won their fourth straight.Donaldson has scored 77 runs, a franchise record for runs before the All-Star break. Carlos Delgado had 76 in 2003.All four Toronto homers came off Royals right-hander Chris Young, who matched Runelvys Hernandezs team record by allowing at least one home run in 13 consecutive starts. Hernandez did it from October 2005 to August 2006.Young (2-8) has surrendered a major league-worst 26 home runs this season.Torontos R.A. Dickey (6-9) allowed two runs, none earned, and four hits in seven innings to win for the first time in nine home starts this season. The knuckleballer came in 0-6 with a 5.14 ERA at home.Kansas City lost for the fourth time in five games and dropped to 16-29 on the road.Donaldson connected in the first inning and went back-to-back with Ezequiel Carrera in the third. It marked the eighth multihomer game of Donaldsons career and the fifth time this season the Blue Jays have hit consecutive homers.Three batters later, Tulowitzki chased Young with his seventh homer in 15 games since returning from the disabled list.Fellow All-Star Edwin Encarnacion had two hits and an RBI, raising his ML-leading total to 77.Young allowed six runs and seven hits in 2 1/3 innings. He is winless in nine starts.Kansas Citys Cheslor Cuthbert hit a two run homer off Dickey and finished with three RBI.TRAINERS ROOMRoyals: RHP Wade Davis (forearm) was placed on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to July 1. The Royals selected RHP Brooks Pounders from Triple-A Omaha and designated LHP Tyler Olson for assignment.Blue Jays: OF Jose Bautista (turf toe) is no longer wearing a walking boot. Thats progress, as long as he doesnt stub it, joked manager John Gibbons. There is no timetable for Bautistas return. ... RHP Marco Estrada (back) is feeling better but could be get one or two extra days of rest before his next start. RHP Drew Hutchison would like start for Toronto if Estrada cannot pitch Thursday against Detroit.UP NEXTRoyals: RHP Ian Kennedy (6-7, 4.04) starts Wednesdays series finale. Kennedy has allowed 20 home runs, including one in each of his past six starts.Blue Jays: RHP Marcus Stroman (6-4, 5.08) allowed one run in 6 2/3 innings against Cleveland in his most recent start after allowing 38 earned runs in his previous eight outings. 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Cespedes was out of the lineup for a third straight game because of the latest flare-up of his balky right quadriceps.The Reds had bailed on trading Bruce to the Mets late in the process last year, and the Mets pivoted to acquire Cespedes from the Detroit Tigers.I feel like Ive been getting traded to the Mets for over a year now, Bruce said. You never know whats going to happen until it actually happens. Last year there was some crazy stuff during the deadline. I try not to jump to conclusions or assume anything. So I waited until I got the call. And when it happened, I was very, very excited.There were a lot of emotions. Theres a group of guys I grew up with over there in Cincinnati -- and guys that I have a lot of respect for both on and off the field. But Im in a new place and I get to know these guys, and it sounds like a great group of guys.Cespedes produced superhuman numbers after arriving last season, allowing the Mets to become the first team in major league history to win a pennant after ranking last in MLB in runs scored on July 31.Bruce arrives as the National Leagues RBI leader with 80. Asked whether he possibly could duplicate the type of jolt Cespedes provided in 2015, Bruce said: The only responsibility that I feel is to be the best version of myself. Im coming in to be a part of this team.During an introductory meeting Tuesday, manager Terry Collins asked Bruce about his ccomfort level in center field.dddddddddddd Bruce said he would be open to playing wherever the Mets needed him. Still, Collins indicated later in the afternoon that Bruce primarily would stick to right field for now. Bruces 35 major league starts in center field all came in 2008.The Mets have a glut of corner outfielders. But with Juan Lagares having undergone surgery Monday to repair a partially torn ligament in his left thumb, and with Justin Ruggiano being placed on the DL on Tuesday with a strained left hamstring, the Mets do not have a bona fide center fielder. Alejandro De Aza starts at the position on Tuesday. Collins plans to begin using Curtis Granderson there a fair amount beginning Wednesday.Bruce is hitting .360 this season with runners in scoring position. That type of success will be welcome on the Mets, who entered Tuesdays game hitting an MLB-worst .205 with runners in scoring position.A guy like that brings a lot of offense to this lineup, said?Jacob deGrom.Bruce hit a combined .222/.288/.406 in 2014 and 2015. He suggested his resurgence this year might be a product of feeling healthier.In 2014 I had knee surgery, he said. And Ill never use that as an excuse as to why I actually struggled. But I think it created some bad habits and it kind of leaked into 2015 a little bit for me. I think this year some small, small changes that I actually noticed the past two years -- and being healthy -- is key. I feel like myself again.Bruce recalled the Mets clinching the NL East title in Cincinnati last Sept. 26. He struck out to end that game, and was still raving about the final pitch of that game from now-teammate Jeurys Familia.The pitching staff here is unbelievable, Bruce said. One of the dirtiest pitches Ive ever been thrown was by Jeurys Familia.Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.? ' ' '