Roy Oswalt has returned to the Phillies after missing eight days to be with his family in Mississippi. The right-hander spent the past week riding an excavator and moving fallen trees off the property at his home after tornadoes ravaged the community. He threw a bullpen session and could start against Atlanta on Saturday. "I've always said this right here, baseball, is a gift that you're given to ply, but this comes third or fourth on my list," Oswalt said. "I could walk away from the game today and be happy. As long as you have your family, they're going to be there a lot longer than the game will be. A lot of people don't look at it that way, a lot of people think this is who you are as a person. It's not. It's something that you're blessed to do." Last week's tornado outbreak in the South was the second deadliest in U.S. history. It killed 329 people across seven states and left stretches from Mississippi to Virginia in ruin.