What a comeback,'' A's manager Ken Macha said.
"Nicholas Thompson Swisher" is an American professional baseball outfielder and primarily a first baseman for the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball. Swisher is a switch hitter who throws left-handed. He has also played for the Oakland Athletics, Chicago White Sox, and New York Yankees. He won the 2009 World Series with the Yankees and was an Major League Baseball All-Star Game/All-Star in 2010 Major League Baseball All-Star Game/2010.
Swisher is the son of former MLB catcher Steve Swisher, who played for various National League baseball clubs in the 1970s and 1980s. Swisher was born in Columbus, Ohio, but grew up in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Before his professional career, Swisher played college baseball for the Ohio State Buckeyes baseball/Ohio State Buckeyes. Drafted by the A's in the 2002 MLB Draft, Swisher made his MLB debut with the Athletics in 2004, and played for the team through 2007. After spending one year with the White Sox in 2008, the Yankees acquired him prior to the start of the 2009 campaign. He played in New York for four years before signing with the Cleveland Indians prior to the 2013 season.
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We've had this kind of stretch before and bounced back. There's just a little more at stake right now. There's still a lot of baseball left and we know how to come from behind.
That was huge. The way things have been going, to pull off a win like we did today, especially with a long road trip ahead of us, it gives us momentum and confidence.
We battled to get in this spot, and we've got to feel proud about what we've accomplished, ... We just want to keep it going right now; we just need to keep riding that wave.
We've had this stretch before, and we've bounced right back. The difference is, there's a lot more riding right now. We've just got to dig deep, keep plugging along and see what happens.
You tip your hat. That was an unbelievable pitch. All I can say is it wasn't our night.
I wasn't trying to think very much today, I was just going up there to see it and hit it, ... Sometimes you can think about it too much.
The way things have been going, to pull off a win like this gives us momentum and confidence. The way it happened was cool.
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