A nine-game homestand at Target Field looked like prime time for the Twins to reset in the comforts of their own ballpark as they made a push for the postseason.

They didn’t quite accomplish all they hoped, losing two games to St. Louis and getting swept by Atlanta. It looked like they were well on their way to dropping two of three to Toronto, too.

Enter Royce Lewis.

Lewis had gone 16 games without a home run, the longest drought of his career. He found his home run swing at just the right time.

When his team needed him the most, Lewis hit a go-ahead, three-run home run on Sunday in the eighth inning to turn the Twins’ fortunes around, helping lift them to a 4-3 win over the Blue Jays on Sunday afternoon at Target Field.

Lewis’ home run put a jolt into the Target Field crowd, which, to that point had seen the Twins held quiet through the early innings.

They entered the bottom of the eighth inning with just three hits, trailing by two after a rare rocky outing from top reliever Griffin Jax, who walked a pair of batters and hit one with the bases loaded, allowing two runs to score in the inning.

A couple of hits in front of him from Ryan Jeffers and Austin Martin set the stage for Lewis, who rose to the occasion and gave the Twins their first lead of the day.

The Twins had been trailing since two batters into the game when Ernie Clement took Bailey Ober deep. That was the only run  — and hit — Ober would give up in a stellar bounce back outing. But he still left the game with the team behind.

It wasn’t until the seventh inning that the Twins got on the board, their first run since the fifth inning on Friday. Lewis, who walked to lead off the inning, came around to score on a Carlos Santana groundout.

It was a big day defensively for Lewis, as well, as the third baseman shifted across the infield and made his major league debut at second base. Lewis had been taking pregame grounders at the position, but the Twins had not said whether they would insert him at the position in-game.

Ryan Jeffers #27 of the Minnesota Twins celebrates as he rounds the bases to score a run on a home run by Royce Lewis #23 in the eighth inning of the game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Target Field on Sept. 1, 2024 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)