That and starting pitcher Cristopher Sanchez worked well enough to give the Phillies their fourth win in five starts. It also was part of Kepler’s larger plan for the sellout crowd 43,711 in South Philadelphia trying to make it home through other politically well-intentioned crowds in “No Kings” demonstrations.

The Phillies needed a big home run like the one Max Kepler hit in the eighth inning on Saturday night. Kepler may have needed it even more.

When the Philadelphia Phillies signed veteran slugger Max Kepler to a one-year deal this past offseason, they did so in hopes that he could provide an extra boo

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,

Max Kepler gives the Phillies a 3-2 lead as he crushes a go-ahead home run to right field in the 8th inning

He bore down for a while, getting out of the first and through the second without another run. For a while it looked like it was going to be a good day. In the third, Otto Kemp singled and stole second.

She got the ball! There are really two sides to every story. Love that we got context about the friend too. Gayle’s friends definitely sent the mean one down to those guys to retrieve the ball, but in that case I wouldn’t have wanted to give her the ball either.