TORONTO -- Justin Turner isn’t one to make a fuss.

Tune in halfway through Turner’s media availability after the Blue Jays’ 6-5 win over the Royals on Monday night and you may not guess he’d just swatted two home runs at Rogers Centre.

Soft-spoken and even-keeled, Turner doesn’t veer away from his focus too often. The hype-up duties belong to his teammates.

“[That was] really cool,” Danny Jansen said of Turner’s big night. “I’ve seen it before, on TV or against us, but yeah. He’s a great hitter. He’s a professional, he’s smart.”

He’s the catalyst.

Turner has been the Blue Jays’ most consistent hitter of the season, often leading the way during the offense’s successful stretches. His pair of homers on Monday were the latest instance, each igniting two-run frames for a team that’s struggled with keeping the momentum after one big inning.

He’s done so with an inherent elegance that may be lost if all you look at is the bright-red beard and the 208-pound frame. Everything about Turner’s game is deliberate, from stance to swing to home run trot. It’s the work of a 16-season veteran who knows exactly who he is and what he excels at.

“He's seen just about everything this game has to offer, and I think that's why he's really good in tight situations,” said manager John Schneider. “And he doesn’t really deviate from what he does.”

What he does is pull the ball, as evidenced by both of his left-field shots on Monday. The numbers don’t really jump off the page: Turner’s two-run blast in the first inning -- his first at Rogers Centre as a member of the Blue Jays -- left the bat at 92.3 mph and traveled 343 feet, with an expected batting average of .080. His second was slightly more impressive: 99.3 mph exit velo and a 368-foot distance.

But Turner doesn’t need to scorch the ball, nor does he need to worry too much about situational hitting. This is how he’s “made a living,” as Schneider put it, and it’s what the Blue Jays signed him for.

“Every day is a new day,” Schneider said of Turner. “He has a plan against everyone he's facing, he knows what he's good at and probably how he's going to be attacked. And he's made a living doing that. So I think when guys see that, and conversations are really consistent throughout afternoons, games, the next day and [the day after that], it just makes everyone around him better.”

There’s the crucial benefit of having veteran leadership in the clubhouse.

The Blue Jays’ offense has fallen way short of its potential in the early going, a reality that boiled over in their last series, when they were outscored 17-7 while losing two of three to the Dodgers. The opening win over the Royals marked the first time in 21 games that the Blue Jays scored at least six runs in an outing.

But the clubhouse conversations are ongoing, and the example of consistency is right in front of them.

That’s why Turner and his teammates believe a turnaround is near.

“Guys are putting in the work,” said Turner. “Tonight, the best sign was the quality contact and the amount of balls we kept off the ground. We've been hitting a lot of hard balls, but hitting them in the ground and not getting any results. And I think tonight was probably our best game of the year at having quality contact. So that was good to see.”

Turner’s third-inning homer was followed by Jansen’s second of the year. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. smoked an RBI double to score Addison Barger after the rookie picked up his first MLB hit in the sixth. Davis Schneider came up with an RBI single as well.

Tacking on runs hasn’t come easily for Toronto of late. A tight game in which the team didn’t have its top relievers available was a great time to break that pattern.

“The flow of the game is so important,” said Schneider. “Today, we were adding on runs. … That's how you win pretty consistently, how you win series’ and how you win close games when your bullpen is short. So having those conversations and guys understanding that more and more has been awesome.”