NEW YORK — Travis d’Arnaud didn’t know what to expect when he was acquired suddenly by the catcher-desperate Rays in mid-May, jumped on a red-eye flight from LA and immediately started working feverishly just to try to fit in.
Certainly not to earn a place in Rays history by keying one of their most dramatic regular-season wins with one of the most prolific offensive nights, the last of his three homers resulting in 5-4 stunner over the Yankees.
Rays radio man Andy Freed referenced the iconic Dan Johnson home run against the Red Sox in September 2008 race, tweeting after Monday’s game he “Can’t think of a bigger, more shocking regular season road win” since then.