MESA, Ariz. -- Who said Spring Training games don't mean anything?
For Rangers manager Jeff Banister, Saturday was a chance for his team to wear the baseball caps of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School baseball team and share in a pregame moment of silence to honor the victims of the Feb. 14 shooting.
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"For the Cubs and [MSD graduate] Anthony Rizzo to ask us to be a part of that, it was truly an honor," Banister said after the Rangers' 6-1 loss to the Cubs.
For Rangers starter Clayton Blackburn, the meaning of the game really hit him just as he was getting ready to warm up.