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Darvish displays competitive fire, wins again
- Updated: June 4, 2016
ARLINGTON — Rangers starter Yu Darvish did not want to come out of the game. He needed one more out to finish the sixth inning and the Mariners’ Dae-Ho Lee was up next. He tried to make that clear to manager Jeff Banister as he walked to the mound to get his pitcher.
Darvish was able to joke about it after a 7-3 victory over the Mariners on Friday night.
“Of course, I saw Lee was on deck and I was looking forward to facing him,” Darvish said. “I told Banister, but he said, ‘Too late.'”
It was too late because it was the second visit by the Rangers to the mound in the inning. Darvish tried to head off Banister before he crossed the foul line.
“As he approached the mound, I tried to make eye contact. … ‘Don’t come, don’t come,'” Darvish said. “But he put his eyes away. I couldn’t do anything about it.”
Darvish walked off the mound having allowed three runs in 5 2/3 innings against a team that had scored 47 runs in their four previous games and were second in the American League in runs scored.
“When I walked off the mound, I had …
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