Max Kepler hit a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning to lift the Philadelphia Phillies to a 3-2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday.

Speaking of the big guy upstairs, Otto Kemp was feeling the spirit a bit on this day, too. The nice-guy rookie who went from being an undrafted baseball grad of the Point Loma Nazarene University Sea Lions to the backup first baseman for the Phillies in only five years’ time, had himself a Sunday, too.

Maybe some time at home was all these Phillies needed. First, a team that had been spiraling took two of three from the first-place Chicago Cubs to begin the week. Even more impressively, they spent their weekend sweeping the red-hot Toronto Blue Jays,