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.

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Mendoza's magic touch with his resurgent team has taken the surprising Mets all the way to the National League Championship Series for the first time in nine years. "He's been fantastic," first baseman Pete Alonso said.

The Mets have played 20 games since Sept. 16, and Francisco Alvarez has started 17 of them. Luis Torrens last started a game Sept. 30 — the meaningless back end of the doubleheader in Atlanta — and has not gotten the nod on a day the Mets had just a single game since Sept.