ARLINGTON -- The manager calls them "Armageddon Scenarios."
They are the kind of catastrophic, worst-case hypothetical situations that invariably come calling for most baseball teams, no matter how much planning they've done. Jeff Banister runs through these in his head, just in case. Three games into the season, just in case has once again become the Rangers rough reality.
They will be without Delino DeShields, their center fielder and leadoff man for at least four weeks, perhaps six, due to a broken hamate bone in his left hand. He suffered the injury Friday night on the first swing of his final at-bat, but thought he had just pinched a nerve.