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Mets History Rewritten: Ron Darling beats Orel Hershiser in the 1988 NLCS

For sports fans, there are two types of games that tend to stick with us. There are the ones where the team loses in heartbreaking fashion late and the kind where you never seemed to have a chance. In Game Seven of the 1988 NLCS, New York Mets fans experienced the latter.

In our series of rewriting Mets history, we’re going to take a look at a different outcome for this game. What if things played out a little differently and Mets starter Ron Darling came up big in this outing?

Some games have a moment or two where we could envision a different ending.