3 wake-up calls for the NY Mets in their doubleheader sweep vs. the Orioles

3) The Fab Four is a fun nickname but even the Beatles had some bad albums and couldn't do it all by themselves

Steve Cohen calls them the Fab Four. Brandon Nimmo, Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, and Pete Alonso contributed to the club’s comeback win on Tuesday. The four key pieces in the lineup that’ll most determine how many runs the team scores is carrying a huge responsibility. We’ve known for a while the Mets lineup is good at the top with a huge sinkhole at around fifth in the order. In game one, they left too many opportunities pass them by. Game two had a few good hits but they ultimately settled into a funk.

What makes the Fab Four effective isn’t grounding out with a runner on third and less than two outs. They need to swat baseballs off the siding of Baltimore warehouses. Their Tuesday comeback had to do with power and not playing small ball. Unfortunately, effective yet small contact was all they could muster on the positive side of things during the doubleheader.

Even the Beatles put out some bad music. These four will have days when all of them hit. There will be some when only Nimmo sings. Alonso will have games when he has to play all of the instruments.

The important wake-up call here is that maybe a four-man band isn’t a minimum. Fleetwood Mac, Oasis, and Guns N’ Roses are all famous five-piece bands. They always got along! Trading for a big bat is feeling more necessary to turn the Fab Four into the Fab Five.

Deepening the lineup is debatable with how well a player like Ronny Mauricio has performed. If the team is going to essentially punt offense at catcher and center field, they will need another bat in some form. The Jesse Winker injury, regardless of its seriousness, might be enough to give the team an extra push to secure a major bat of some kind.