New York Mets broadcaster Ron Darling revealed positive news on Monday.
Darling, who was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in May, announced that his cancer has been “stabilized,” allowing him to return to the broadcast booth. He will join Gary Cohen and Keith Hernandez for Tuesday night’s game against the San Francisco Giants at Citi Field.
“My doctors have informed me that my thyroid cancer has been stabilized for now and that I have been cleared to return to work,” Darling said in a statement. “The doctors will continue to closely monitor me over the next several months to assure my progress remains on the right track. I look forward to rejoining my partners Gary and Keith in the SNY booth.
Darling, 58, announced in April that a large mass was located on his chest. A few weeks later, he had surgery to remove the mass and further testing led to the cancer diagnosis. In a May 6 statement, Darling said doctors told him his cancer was “treatable” and that he could return to broadcasting “in a month or so.” That came to fruition with Darling’s statement on Monday.
Darling pitched for the Mets for nine seasons, helping the team win the World Series in 1986, and also spent time with the Montreal Expos and Oakland A’s. He amassed a 136-116 record and a 3.87 earned run average before retiring during the 1995 season.
Darling entered the television world in 2000 and was hired as a color commentator for the Mets in 2006, joining Cohen and Hernandez to make one of the best TV booths in all of baseball.
Earlier, Kate — wearing a purple dress, one of Wimbledon’s official colors — went from the stands down to the playing surface to present the trophies, part of her duties as patron of the All England Club, which hosts the annual tournament.
She shook hands with some of the ball kids who worked at the tournament, then exchanged words with both players and applauded for Alcaraz after giving him the winner’s trophy for the second year in a row.
“It was, of course, a privilege to be in her presence again. I’ve said to her that it is very nice to see her in good health; she seems to be in good health,” Djokovic said at his postmatch news conference. “That’s obviously very positive news for everyone in this country, but also for Wimbledon.”
Kate and her 9-year-old daughter, Princess Charlotte, got to the site of the grass-court Grand Slam tournament in southwest London in a motorcade about a half-hour before the final was scheduled to begin. They went to a terrace at the club that is connected to the main stadium by a pedestrian walkway and greeted several people, including 2021 U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu and other young British tennis players.
