TORONTO — Kansas City Royals relief pitcher Blaine Boyer is not a hero.

Or so he declared Tuesday afternoon at the Rogers Centre, some 36 hours after he took the wheel of the Royals’ chartered bus on a highway in Toronto and successfully steered the team to safety after a large sheet of ice cracked the bus windshield and shards of glass hit the driver.

“I’m fine — we’re fine,” he said. “I’m not a hero. It’s crazy!”

An apropos word to describe the Royals’ past two days. After extreme cold forced the Royals to postpone Sunday’s home series finale at Kauffman Stadium, the team’s plane to Toronto was delayed for three hours as a spring storm halted travel in the Upper Midwest. The Royals landed at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport at about 11 p.m. and a convoy of two buses departed for the team hotel within 45 minutes.

But part of the way through what should have been an uneventful trip into the Yorkville neighborhood, a sheet of ice slipped off the roof of the lead bus, carrying staff members, and smacked into the windshield of the bus that was carrying players.

The sound was so loud players panicked and hit the floorboards to shield themselves. Then Boyer glanced up from his spot near the front of the bus, where he usually sits, and saw driver Fred Folkerts covered in blood. Boyer sprung to action, checked on the driver and took the wheel from him.

“Fred just absolutely nailed it … he’s the man,” said Boyer, again deflecting credit for his role in steering the bus to safety.

Boyer navigated the bus a short distance to the side of the road. The Royals were stranded. Again.

It was not until about 2 a.m. that they made it to their hotel. It turns out they did not need much sleep, anyway, as Monday’s game was postponed when another free-falling chunk of ice thwarted their plans and punctured a hole in the roof of the Blue Jays’ domed stadium. They played a doubleheader Tuesday.

— The Kansas City (Mo.) Star