ARLINGTON -- Rangers manager Jeff Banister answered multiple questions about Yu Darvish after a 5-2 Rangers victory over the Pirates on Saturday night. His final words went directly to the point.
"Look, he showed up [as] Yu Darvish tonight," Banister said at the end of his postgame news conference.
That sums it up. After 14 months of recovering from Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery, after all the checkups, workouts, bullpen sessions and rehab starts, that's what happened on Saturday.
Darvish showed up before a sellout crowd and pitched like he had never been away.