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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Ian Kennedy has been getting scant support, 11 runs in his previous nine starts, the lowest in the majors in that span.Alex Gordon and the Kansas City hitters quickly made up for that drought.Gordon homered twice and doubled, Kennedy pitched eight sharp innings and the Royals extended their winning streak to seven games, beating the Minnesota Twins 10-0 Saturday night.Tonight the offense was just rolling, Gordon said. Like we talked about last year, just keep the line moving. Thats kind of what we had tonight.Its a little contagious, everyone was feeling good at the plate and you just roll with it, he said.The Royals string is their best since they won seven straight in April 2015. The World Series champions have won 12 of 14 to move back into the AL wild-card race.We scored four, which helped, and then attack the zone a little bit more, Kennedy said. And then we scored more later on and we just kept tacking on. It allows us to go out there and throw strikes and try to get ahead of guys and be efficient.Gordon has homered five times in five games. He connected in the fourth inning and again in the fifth for his fourth career multihomer game and his first since May 18, 2014.Kennedy (8-9) gave up four hits, walked none and struck out six. He allowed only one runner past second base and has an 0.79 ERA in his past five starts.Kennedy has allowed no more than one run while pitching at least six innings in that five-start span, tying a team record. Larry Gura had a parallel streak in 1981.(Danny) Duffy hasnt done that yet? Kennedy said. It seems like every time hes out there, hes doing that same thing.Salvador Perez and Gordon hit back-to-back home runs in a four-run fifth, chasing Hector Santiago (10-8).Kennedys got a sneaky fastball, Twins star Brian Dozier said. And he lives away. He was getting the call all night about three or four inches off. He kept peppering us. Its what veteran pitchers do. He kept getting it and we tried to make adjustments.Obviously with a good pitcher like that, and you give up run after run after run from the third inning on, its tough to play catch up, he said.Santiago was tagged for eight runs and 11 hits over 4 2/3 innings. The lefty is 0-4 with a 10.89 ERA since the Twins acquired him in an Aug. 1 trade with the Los Angeles Angels.Too many pitches in the middle of the zone, too many mistakes, Santiago said.Lorenzo Cain doubled twice, singled and drove in three runs.NO DOZIER HOMERDozier had homered in seven straight games hed started against the Royals before going 0 for 4.TWINS RECALL MEJIALHP Adalberto Mejia, acquired by the Twins from the Giants in a July 28 trade for Eduardo Nunez, was recalled from Triple-A Rochester, where he was 1-2 with a 4.66 ERA in three starts. Mejia was scheduled to start Saturday for the Red Wings, but instead went to the Minnesota bullpen. Mejia made his big league debut, giving up two runs on five hits, a walk and a sacrifice fly in 2 1/3 innings. The Twins announced after the game he was being sent back to Rochester. ... 1B-DH Kenny Vargas, who hit .259 in 25 games, was optioned to Rochester.TRAINERS ROOMRoyals: Closer RHP Wade Davis, who went on the disabled list July 31 with a flexor strain, is going to Surprise, Arizona, to throw batting practice. Well see how he does there, Royals manager Ned Yost said. Yost said Davis has thrown three or four bullpen sessions.UP NEXTTwins: RHP Ervin Santana, who has won his past three starts, is 13-14 with a 3.69 ERA in 39 starts with the Twins. Hes in the second year of a four-year contract with the club.Royals: Duffy, who will be making his first start this season against the Twins, will be seeking his 10th straight victory since a June 6 loss at Baltimore. Baltimore Ravens tight end Benjamin Watson spent enough time working with the NFL this year on its message to players about conduct that he wasnt expecting to be so personally engaged by it. Yet there he was, after the Ravens mandatory training hour last week, discussing childrens safety -- and guns.This is the third year the NFL has had social responsibility training, but its the first time the league added a discussion about gun ownership and the importance of safe storage of weapons.We hear these horror stories all the time about a child that finds a firearm and who shoots and hurts themselves, or kills someone else, Watson said. And youd hate for that to happen because its so preventable. Im glad they added that myself, as a father of five.This season, the training was pared down and changed as the league shifts from responding to the Ray Rice situation and domestic violence to a more interactive format. Players viewed videos (one, for example, showed a drunken driver swerving a car all over the road) and were asked to discuss.Weve never presented the issue from a social responsibility perspective before, said Anna Isaacson, the NFLs vice president of social responsibility. These were crucial societal issues that people just didnt know enough about, and we felt that it was our duty, and it was the right thing to do, to make sure that everyone in the NFL family had the same knowledge, so that we were all on an even playing field and we all had the same information.This year in the offseason, Denvers Aqib Talib suffered a gunshot wound in Dallas, and former Saints defensive end Will Smith was shot and killed?during a traffic altercation in New Orleans.Ever since Plaxico Burress shot himself in the leg when he was a wide receiver for the Giants, NFL teams have hosted presentations by law enforcement officials about local laws on owning and carrying weapons. Burress, who was not licensed to carry a concealed weapon in New York, served 20 months in jail.The NFL has recommended that players stay away from gun ownership, but Sean Taylors 2007 death during a robbery at home still lingers, and NFL players know they can be targeted for their wealth.Because of the Second Amendment, Watson ssaid, the NFL cant tell you [that] you cant have a gun, because youre a citizen of this country.ddddddddddddSo the league is discussing gun safety through the prism of child shooting tragedies.About a third of teams have completed the sessions. Parts of the presentations still focus on domestic violence. Watson is featured in one of the videos, discussing a moment when he saw a woman in a convenience store. She appeared to be hurt and was lingering inside, apparently to avoid returning to a car and its driver.The discussion follows. Could he really assume violence had occurred? Should he have called anyone? What was his obligation to that woman? What would he risk for intervening?He spoke from the heart and its a real situation. People can imagine being in that situation and not knowing what to do, Isaacson said. What Ive heard from the feedback is, thats really hard. The point of that video is to spark that ongoing dialogue because theres no solution, theres no easy answer. ... Its important that we think through them.Of the sessions Watson said, Having a conversation is a way to engage in a nonthreatening manner.The NFLs previous training on domestic violence emphasized dos and donts. Players were presented with statistics and a discussion of the definition of consent in sexual situations.But there was some negative feedback from players who felt it was a bit patronizing and targeted them for an issue they might never intersect with.Watson discussed it with his wife, Kirsten.My wife, in her wisdom, told me, No matter the reason theyre doing it, if it changes one mans mind as hes about to hurt his wife or girlfriend, then its worth it, Watson said.Watson, who is entering his 13th NFL season, said he has seen change since the league began frankly discussing violence -- not just among p