PHILADELPHIA – Blue Jays starter Kevin Gausman spun around and walked towards the visiting dugout. He thought he got Trea Turner out on strikes to end the second inning. Turner was jogging to first base. Gausman’s pitch count was at 51. With a run already home on an RBI double by Brandon Marsh, the Phillies had a chance to give Ranger Suárez a comfortable lead with two outs.

Philadelphia had the right guy at the plate. Kyle Schwarber has not gotten off to a torrid start in June the way he has in the past. That is excusable. His bat has carried the Phillies through the first two months of the season. No player should be expected to remain that hot for that long.

Schwarber had issues with timing, but he has already made an adjustment. He has homered in back-to-back games. His three-run home run in the bottom of the second was the big swing in the Phillies’ 8-0 victory over the red-hot Toronto Blue Jays. The Phillies, winners of back-to-back games for the first time this month, snapped the Jays’ three-game winning streak. It’s the sixth time the Phillies have shut out an opponent. Every batter in the starting lineup reached base safely.

Schwarber’s long ball was the first Phillies three-run home run since May 8, when Bryson Stott took Edwin Uceta deep for three against the Rays in Tampa. It’s still a bit concerning that most of the Phillies’ power lies in the hands of one man. Schwarber has hit 30% of the Phillies’ 72 home runs in 2025. The Phillies hope it all evens out eventually.

Ranger Suárez, in his first career start against Toronto, was stellar. He threw seven shutout innings for the second time this year. He has thrown seven innings in back-to-back starts. Of his six strikeouts, four were called third strikes. Suárez’s season ERA is down to 2.32.

Outside of an error at first base charged to Otto Kemp in the second, the Phillies played one of their smoother games on defense. Max Kepler made an excellent diving catch to end the second. In the third, Turner made an incredible backhand stop and threw the runner Andrés Giménez out from the outfield grass.

Kemp recorded his first-career RBI in the sixth. The Phillies added on in the eighth on back-to-back doubles from Kepler and J.T. Realmuto. Realmuto later came home to score on a sacrifice fly. An RBI single from Turner, the Phillies’ 10th hit of the game, brought home a hustling Bryson Stott from second base.

The Phillies (40-29) will go for a second-straight series win on Sunday. They’ll have Cristopher Sánchez on the mound. Bowden Francis, who got roughed up by the Phillies last week in Toronto, will look to redeem himself.