‘No panic’: Rangers look to flip script on Jays

TORONTO — For Texas Rangers manager Jeff Banister, it’s about the simplest game he’ll ever work. “It’s [an] all-hands-on-deck type of deal,” he said. “And there’s nobody not available to us.”

In that way, the guy with the other lineup card simply can’t have the same urgency. He’ll have urgency. He’ll see it as a must-win game. But it’s different when it really is win or go home.

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“It’s kind of tough to answer that,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. “And we were on the flip side of that last year.”

That’s one of the strange parallels when the Rangers and Blue Jays play Game 3 of a best-of-five American League Division Series at 7:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. CT on Sunday, which will be broadcast on TBS in the United States and Sportsnet (English) and TVA (French) in Canada. The game will also be broadcast in Spanish on MLB Network.

The Blue Jays lead the series 2-0 and can advance to the American League Championship Series for a second straight season by winning on Sunday.

But they also have three chances to win one game. So regardless of how much the Blue Jays want to finish the series off, they’re not pushed to the brink.

And they know what that’s like. Last year in the ALDS, the Rangers won Games 1 and 2 at Rogers Centre and returned home to Arlington needing just one more victory. The Blue Jays swept Games 3 and 4 on …

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