There’s no quit in these Rangers

You never know. You keep playing. You compete. Again, you never know. Rangers manager Jeff Banister says stuff like that a lot.

Actually, he sometimes doesn’t actually say it. Instead, he’ll point toward his clubhouse and nod.

“Those guys,” he’ll say.

He means that his players get it. Consummate professionals.

“Twenty-five players engaged, prepared and playing hard,” Banister will say.

That’s the lesson of this mini-surge in which the Rangers have won five of six games to move five games above .500 for the first time this season at 20-15.

It’s not that the Rangers have won five of six that’s so impressive. It’s how they’ve done it. They’ve come from behind to win four of those games. Twice, they’ve come behind in the eighth inning.

Let’s recount:

• The Rangers were down, 5-2, in Detroit in the sixth inning last Saturday and won, 10-5.

• Next day, they trailed the Tigers, 2-0, in the eighth and won, 8-3.

This is where it gets really good.

On Tuesday night, the Rangers trailed the White Sox, 10-5, in the seventh inning and 11-6 in the eighth before rallying to win, 13-11.

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And Wednesday afternoon, after a long, draining night at the ballpark, they trailed the White Sox by scores of 1-0, 4-2 and 5-4 before scoring twice in the sixth to finally win, 6-5.

In the two games, Banister used all seven of his relievers. Seven different Rangers drove in runs.

He got a tremendous 4 1/3-inning performance from 24-year-old …

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