TORONTO — The Texas Rangers are looking for a good starting performance Saturday afternoon against the Toronto Blue Jays after injury limited their Friday night starter, A.J. Griffin, to 1 1/3 innings.
The Rangers’ bullpen has pitched 24 of the team’s past 58 innings.
“We kind of need to get back to the run of quality starts,” Texas manager Jeff Banister said after the 7-6 loss to the Blue Jays. “We’ve had a couple of outings where a couple of relievers didn’t record an out.”
The Rangers could not have a better candidate to accomplish what is needed than the starter they send out Saturday: Yu Darvish.