After enjoying for 3 groups in 2019, Travis d’Arnaud felt certain he’d discovered a house when he signed with the Atlanta Braves final winter.

Seems, the match was good for d’Arnaud to ship a postseason to recollect.

After homering in every of the primary two video games of the NL Division Collection, d’Arnaud hit a two-run double in Atlanta’s four-run third inning on Thursday that helped give the Braves a 7-Zero win over the Miami Marlins and a three-game sweep of the collection.

D’Arnaud was 6 for 10 with two homers, two doubles and 7 RBIs – probably the most by a catcher in a division collection.

He hit a excessive fastball from Sixto Sanchez off the fence in right-center for the two-run double.

”That was like old fashioned proper there, simply tomahawking the ball,” Braves supervisor Brian Snitker stated. ”He simply put an old-school hack on that factor.”

Requested how he stayed on prime of the excessive pitch, d’Arnaud stated ”I am nonetheless questioning, too. I simply tried to place the barrel on the ball. I bought rewarded with a double that scored two runs.”

With d’Arnaud behind the plate, Kyle Wright led the Braves employees to its fourth shutout of the postseason. Wright threw six innings, permitting solely three hits however having to pitch out of hassle early within the sport.

Although d’Arnaud’s hits have been massive, he stated he was most happy with Wright.

”The efficiency of the younger child, what he did, what he battled by means of when he did not have his greatest stuff,” d’Arnaud stated.

D’Arnaud earned reward from Snitker for serving to Atlanta’s younger starters. Max Fried, Ian Anderson and Wright turn out to be a postseason energy when the inexperience of the employees regarded just like the weak spot of the staff.

”I am unable to say sufficient about that man,” Snitker stated of d’Arnaud. ”He is simply been unbelievable for us with the massive hits, and the hits overshadow the massive job he did for us with these pitchers.”

It could have been troublesome to foretell d’Arnaud hitting cleanup within the 2020 postseason when he was lower by the New York Mets early in 2019 after which offered by the Dodgers for $100,000 to the Tampa Bay Rays.

It wasn’t enjoyable to be lower and have his contract offered, however d’Arnaud stated he targeted on understanding different groups nonetheless believed he may play.

”It made me really feel like I used to be doing one thing proper, one thing was proper in my mindset,” d’Arnaud stated. ”I simply needed to maintain persevering with to do this and maintain shifting ahead.”

With the Rays, d’Arnaud revived his profession and was signed by Atlanta to a $16 million, two-year deal on Nov. 24, 2019.

He did not must pressure to be taught concerning the group – his brother, Chase d’Arnaud, was with Atlanta in 2016 and ’17. Travis stated he knew the Braves had potential to make a postseason run.

”Completely. I knew that this group had it in them,” d’Arnaud stated. ”I knew enjoying in opposition to them, I used to be not going to mattress till about 5 a.m. as a result of I used to be apprehensive concerning the subsequent day. Now I can sleep a little bit higher at evening understanding that I am on that staff. To be part of it and to see what really occurs behind closed doorways and within the locker room is magical and I am grateful to be part of it.”

D’Arnaud hit .321 with 9 homers within the shortened season whereas sharing time with Tyler Flowers.

”That is my decide for the Silver Slugger as a catcher,” Freddie Freeman stated of d’Arnaud. ”I do not know should you can have a greater season than he did, and arising clutch, too.”

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