Nick Swisher was the man of the night in yesterday’s game against the Rangers in the Bronx. On a night where all eyes were on the Yankees; one, because the Yanks were playing against their closest rivals in the American League this season (the Rangers are second in the AL with a .588 winning percentage, the Yanks stand first at .591), and two, it was Derek Lowe’s debut in the Bronx, Nick Swisher demanded some of the attention for himself as well.
Swisher had 5 RBI’s for the night and the team ended up with a win over Texas in an 8-2 score. Four of those RBI’s? A grand slam that came in the third inning off of Ryan Dempster with just one out, scoring Russell Martin, Raul Ibanez, and Derek Jeter. Appropriately, it was his 200th career home run. This gives Swisher 15 homers for the season so far.
In the bottom of the seventh, Swisher’s final RBI came when he singled off of Michael Kirkman who replaced Dempster, scoring Jeter once again.
After the game, this is what the right-fielder had to say to the media of his grand slam moment, “For me, man, I’m just trying to put something in the air. At least get one of them. That’s all you’re thinking in that spot. He just kind of missed with a little cutter over the plate and I put the barrel on it.”
This is Swisher’s second big blow for the season, tying Robinson Cano and Curtis Granderson for the team lead.
It looks like batting second in the lineup, after Derek Jeter and before Robinson Cano, is really allowing him to see some good-opportunity pitches that he would most likely not see elsewhere in the lineup. Although he is batting .264 for the year, Swisher’s performance for the night was nothing short of a 5-star rating, and 5 worthy RBI’s.
“You can feel the electricity on the field. We had a packed house tonight,” said Swisher.
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