Before his first at-bat Monday night, Mets catcher Travis d’Arnaud looked like a golfer approaching the first tee trying to cure a case of the yips.
D’Arnaud took a measurement by laying his bat down behind home plate. He then walked out of the batter’s box, tapped his cleats, jerked his arm and adjusted his gloves. As Los Angeles Dodgers starter Brett Anderson prepared to offer his first pitch of the bottom of the second inning, d’Arnaud settled in, his legs spread wide and his right foot resting on the back chalk of the box.