Thursday marks an overlooked anniversary for the Mets, although it is one that should actually be laser-locked in the organizational memory and summoned every day.

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There were a lot of breathtakingly wonderful moments from their great October surge of ’24. Francisco Lindor had two of them: the ninth-inning blast in Atlanta in Game 161 on the day after the regular season ended that secured the postseason, and the grand slam off Philadelphia’s Carlos Estévez that all but clinched the NLDS. Pete Alonso had another, his forever blast off Devin Williams in Milwaukee.

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