Banister eager to move on from ugly fracas

ARLINGTON — After Sunday’s 7-6 comeback victory over the Blue Jays, the Rangers were eager to talk about what a big win it was for them and how much it meant to win the series at home. They weren’t as eager to discuss the elephant in the melee between everyone in uniform on both teams near the end of the game — and those Rangers who did speak of the brawl did so cautiously.

They still had a touch of intensity still left over from the eighth-inning fracas that erupted when Jose Bautista slid high and hard into Rougned Odor, who pushed the Toronto slugger and then punched him square on the jaw before the benches cleared. But for the most part, the Rangers let the incident speak for itself, and they added little in the way of postgame analysis. 

Manager Jeff Banister spent the first 2 1/2 minutes of his postgame news conference rattling off a list of things that happened before the fight — how starter Cesar Ramos fared, how Matt Bush got them out of a bases-loaded jam, how Adrian Beltre’s solo homer gave the team a spark after it fell behind.

“And you can look at the tape on the rest of it,” Banister said.

The tape showed players, coaches and staff in a red-and-blue blur behind second base as umpires and players, including Beltre, tried to make peace and restore order.

“You don’t want something bad to happen, you’re …

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