TORONTO | The wiggle room figured to be what Sunday for Kyle Davies and the Royals against Toronto ace Roy Halladay? Two runs? Maybe three? </p><p> Turned out it was none.</p><p> So when the Blue Jays had four on the board by the end of the third inning, that was plenty for Halladay in a 4-0 victory that sent the Royals to their ninth loss in 10 games.</p><p> “You know that it’s Halladay,” Davies admitted. “It doesn’t get in your head, but it is what it is. My job is to put zeroes up and pitch as long as I can. I didn’t do that the first three innings.”</p><p> Halladay was, simply, Halladay. He became the first pitcher this season to reach 10 victories by suffocating a Royals attack that never came close to building on Saturday’s encouraging six-run output.</p><p> “You never see any sign of that guy slowing down,” right fielder José Guillen said. “He just keeps getting better every year. To me, he’s been the best pitcher in baseball for a while.</p><p> “Unfortunately, he plays here in Toronto, and a lot of people still don’t realize how good that guy is. He’s one of a kind. Very special.”</p><p> Halladay, 10-1, permitted seven hits, all singles, in recording his third complete game of the season — only Zack Greinke, with five, has more in either league. Halladay struck out six and walked none in a marvelous 97-pitch performance.</p><p> Afterward, he pointed to the early lead as a key factor.</p><p> “It makes a huge difference,” Halladay said, “and lets you get into the swing of things.”</p><p> Some swing. The shutout was his first of the season and the 12th of his career. All in 2 hours, 9 minutes.</p><p> “It feels like the game just started,” first baseman Billy Butler said, “and it’s over. He breezed through. Very calm and cool.”</p><p> The Royals hit only three balls in the air beyond the infield in the first six innings, but the seventh offered possibilities when they loaded the bases with one out on singles by Mike Jacobs, Mark Teahen and Alberto Callaspo.</p><p> Halladay responded with a three-pitch strikeout against Miguel Olivo before inducing a weak first-pitch hopper to first base by Mitch Maier.</p><p> And that was that.</p><p> “He doesn’t make any mistakes,” Olivo said. “He threw that first pitch up, and the umpire gave it to him. That’s it. Then he threw me one over there (extending his hand), and I swung.</p><p> “Then he threw me one over there (extending his hand even farther), and I swung. He got me to chase. That’s why he’ll win the Cy Young. He’s good.”</p><p> Davies also threw a complete game but fell to 2-6 and is now winless in seven starts dating to April 30 _ a victory, ironically, against Toronto (but not Halladay) at Kauffman Stadium. His skid includes five straight losses.</p><p> “You’ve got to get the guys out who you’ve got to get out,” Davies said. “And I gave up two big home runs and lost the game.”</p><p> The Blue Jays turned a hit-and-run single into a 1-0 lead in the first inning before playing long ball: Lyle Overbay leading off the second inning; Aaron Hill with a two-run shot in the third after a leadoff walk to Marco Scutaro.</p><p> “My breaking ball early was just spinning in the middle of the plate,” Davies said. “Hill’s home run was a 1-2 curveball. You’ve got him 1-2, you’ve got to bounce that ball or at least get it down to where it’s a swing-and-miss or a ground ball.</p><p> “I didn’t get it down, and I didn’t throw it with any authority. I hung it, and he hit it.”</p><p> The Royals, 24-32, now get a day off today before opening a three-game series Tuesday in Cleveland that shapes up as a last-place cage match in the American League Central Division. The Indians, 25-34, trail the Royals by one-half game.</p><p> Davies allowed nine hits while throwing a career-high 126 pitches for his first complete game since April 18, 2006. He scrambled from one jam to another through the first five innings before steadying and retiring 10 of his last 11 hitters.</p><p> By then, it was too late.