Travis d’Arnaud is doing what the Mets dreamed of this year: helping in a playoff race, hitting for average and power, and absolutely killing the Yankees while he’s at it.
All it took was getting out of Queens.
The catcher delivered three home runs Monday night for the Rays, the third a three-run, two-out, two-strike shot in the ninth inning to capture a 5-4 win over the Yankees in The Bronx.
“It’s the coolest night ever,” d’Arnaud said, calling it the No. 1 (regular-season, he later clarified) game of his career, with No. 2 being when he cracked a walk-off home run against the Yankees on July 6 at Tropicana Field.