ARLINGTON -- It's a strategy advanced by the fan base on a regular basis, but one that Rangers manager Jeff Banister said he is not leaning toward.
Why not use Matt Bush or Keone Kela to get through these treacherous seventh innings and then worry about closing the game once any early danger is averted? For a team that has been outscored 43-24 in seventh innings this season, it makes some amount of sense.
"I understand that,” Banister said of the theory. “When things don't go well for you, saying we'll try something different, I get that.