ARLINGTON --Manager Jeff Banister was standing in the dugout during the seventh inning of Thursday's game against the Twins when Blake Miller, the Rangers vice-president for security, approached and told him about the tragic events unfolding in downtown Dallas.
"Gut-wretching," Banister said. "The rest of the game was pretty much a blur."
The flags at Globe Life Park in Arlington were at half-mast on Friday in honor of the five police officers killed by a sniper in downtown Dallas Thursday night. Seven other officers were wounded during the attack, which took place during an otherwise peaceful Black Lives Matter rally staged to honor African-American victims of police shootings that took place earlier in the week in Louisiana and Minnesota.