The New York Mets have tied up the best-of-seven NLCS at one game apiece, thanks in part to a big home run from Francisco Lindor.

While the 2024 Mets season has been anything but ordinary, there has been one relative constant that has guided the team all the way to the NLCS: Francisco Lindor hitting at the top of the lineup.

That can mean a host of things: fashioning a new pitch, steadying mechanics, out-scheming the opposition, solving for what the opponent is trying to do before they do it, and so on. It ought to go without writing that every player and every team has to make some kind of adjustments throughout the season.