Francisco Lindor has chance to quickly change everything for Mets

He has done everything, been everything, for the Mets for five months.The Mets were gasping the final Monday of the season, he hit a two-run, ninth-inning homer as close to CPR as the sport allows.

The Mets abandoned runner after runner on the bases with a chance to chase the Phillies on Wednesday; he cleared those bases with another forever swing.Forget whether Francisco Lindor merits the National League’s Most Valuable Player award, he’s been the Mets’ most valuable player.That goes without saying.Done everything, been everything.So it almost seems like an unfair ask to present him what the Mets need from him now.

It almost feels greedy.Baseball games in real life aren’t the same as baseball games in the movies, even if Lindor and friends have done their best the past few weeks to rebut that postulate.

You can’t just script these things.But let’s script it anyway.Because the Mets really need Lindor to give them a quick spark Monday afternoon, Game 2 of the National League Championship Series at Dodger Stadium.After the 9-0 drubbing the Dodgers laid on them Sunday, they require an immediate infusion of life.“We need to be better,” Carlos Mendoza said when the carnage was complete.

“We need to be much better.”Lindor will not only be the likeliest candidate to make that happen, he’ll also be the Mets’ first option when he leads the game off against whichever reliever of choice Dave Roberts sends out to start L.A.’s bullpen game.The Dodgers have a string of 33 consecutive zeroes dangling on a clothesline across Dodger Stadium.One more and they’ll break a postseason tie with the 1966 Orioles, who did that against — since baseball can’t help itself, it’s so addicted to symmetry and historical callbacks — the Dodgers.It would behoove the Mets not to let that streak reach 34.

It would very much be in their best interests to jump the Dodgers, not let the beautiful people inside Dodger Stadium clear their throats and pretend to be a ...