Mark Vientos is the Mets’ main man right now

PHILADELPHIA — Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonso are the biggest names, and biggest stars, on the team from Queens. They are 1 and 1A on your list of orange-and-blue luminaries.

But the kid Mark Vientos is the main man now. Of that there is no denying, and no doubt.

The kid who always thought and said he could rake is doing it up big on the biggest stage. And if he had just a little more help, the Mets would be heading home in a commanding position instead of tied at one game apiece after Philly’s rousing 7-6 walk-off victory Sunday.

Vientos hit a pair of book-end two-run homers, including one to tie things in the ninth. He also doubled and walked in his five plate appearances that carried the potential to be labeled an all-time great Mets performance if only the Mets had hung on. Vientos provided the best of the Mets’ daily late-game heroics, but this time the Phillies beat the Mets at their own game, staging three late-game rallies to even the Division Series.

Vientos — the kid who was demoted to Syracuse not once but twice this year and never complained — feels unstoppable right now. He is the best thing the Mets have going for them now.

“I’m focused. I’m focused on getting the job done and doing whatever I can to help the team,” Vientos said.

There’s no question who the Phillies (and any other teams in their October future) should be planning against. That is Vientos, the young man with the magic bat, who looks like he may have the potential to carry the Mets deep into October.

Other hitters were having trouble seeing through the shadows early in these first two games, with both played in twilight. Not this kid, who must possess super vision.

Moments have the potential to overwhelm kids at this time, but he’s making them his own. Vientos looks like he relishes the spotlight. That’s the best kind of player to have in New York.

Give an assist to excellent Phillies manager Rob Thomson on Vientos’ second dinger. Thomson employed left-hander Matt Strahm to try to close things out with the top of the Mets lineup up when either of two right-handers made more sense — Jeff Hoffman, who relieved Strahm, or closer Carlos Estevez, who pitched the eighth inning.

Not only is Lindor better batting right-handed, but Vientos is death on lefties as Phillies Game 2 starter Cristopher Sanchez learned by allowing Vientos’ first two extra-base hits. But really, don’t blame Thomson too much. Credit the Mets for their usual late-game rally.

Whatever the other team tries, Vientos, one of a few key Mets to start the year in Triple A, seems to be floating through October.

“It was a heckuva game. Both teams battled. And I’m excited to get back to Citi Field,” Vientos said.

He said it feels “surreal.” But if it doesn’t quite qualify as surreal, at the very least, it’s a surprise. To us and to them.

Vientos deserved a spot on the team off a fine spring performance in Port St. Lucie, but it was going to take a lot to beat out Brett Baty, who was generally held in higher regard. It still looked like he was going to make the team, but then they acquired his South Florida buddy and hitting partner, the veteran stabilizer J.D. Martinez, and suddenly he was off to Syracuse. He came up briefly, hit a game-winning home run, then was sent down again. He handled it all beautifully.

Mets hitting coaches deserve credit for getting him so good. So does Phillies star Bryce Harper who provided some words of wisdom in a first-base chat earlier this year. Harper basically told him: You are strong enough to rely on your natural power and don’t need to swing so hard.

The Phillies do know their baseball, and you didn’t think the Phillies were going to go away that quietly, did you?

No, neither did I.

The Phillies are too good to lay a complete postseason egg. So their late comeback win — they beat the Mets at their own game — shouldn’t come as a surprise.

The Mets head back to Queens generally feeling good about themselves. But one worrisome thing for the Mets is star reliever Edwin Diaz. The man they called Sugar for obvious reasons (he’s absolutely lovely), left a sour taste after the Phillies rallied for three runs against him to take the lead before Vientos tied things.

You couldn’t really blame Diaz too badly for walking annual October hero Harper to start the Phillies eighth. The Mets had a one-run lead and Harper homered only two innings earlier to make a game of it. But a single by Nick Castellanos and hard-struck triple by Bryson Stott, lined down the right field line gave the Phillies the lead. An inning later, Castellanos won it following walks by Tylor Megill to Trea Turner and Harper.

Castellanos had a nice game, gathering three hits. But he didn’t match Vientos. Right now, no one can.