DENVER — A “special talent,” a “true pro,” a “leader” — all terms used by Carlos Mendoza, Pete Alonso and Kodai Senga when asked to reflect on what Francisco Lindor accomplished Friday night.

And there was another more pointed one, from the manager: “An All-Star.”

That last one, of course, comes courtesy of the fact that the player who came in second in the 2024 MVP voting didn’t get the honor of an All-Star nod last year. But if you can say anything about Lindor’s tiebreaking two-out, two-run double in the ninth inning of the Mets’ 4-2 win over the Rockies at Coors Field, it’s that it certainly had star quality.

After missing two games with a broken right pinkie toe, a hobbled Lindor pinch hit for Tyrone Taylor with two on and the score tied at 2. Lindor saw one cutter and then another, and promptly lined that one to right to drive in two runs.

Once his work was done, he left for a pinch runner with a little limp that wasn’t quite Kirk Gibson, but close enough.

“This training staff here is one of the best, if not the best,” Lindor said. “When it comes to those moments, I’m there to make something happen — just get a good pitch and whatever happens happens. Don’t let the moment get too big.”

With one out, Zach Agnos allowed a single by Juan Soto and walked Alonso to set the stage for Lindor.

Alonso, putting together quite the All-Star-caliber season himself, continued his torrid streak, going 1-for-3 with two walks and two RBIs, giving him an MLB-leading 57. But his slide on Lindor’s hit made a big impact, too: Sam Hilliard’s throw beat him by plenty, but Alonso was able to dive to the outside part of the plate and snake his hand in before the tag was applied.

All of it soothed the burn of what looked destined to be a frustrating night in which the Mets (40-24) simply could not produce in the best hitting park in baseball against the Rockies (12-51), MLB’s worst team. They stranded 12 runners and went 2-for-15 with runners in scoring position.

“We didn’t have good at-bats for the first six, seven innings,” Mendoza said of his team, which is hitting .216 with runners in scoring position — fourth worst in the majors. “I feel like today we were in between, taking good pitches early in the count, [then] they got ahead with the breaking ball and then we were late with the fastball.”

For now, though, Alonso is the exception: He’s hitting .358 with RISP and delivered again in the seventh.

Up until then, the Mets seemed destined for the most ignominious of non-achievements — getting shut out by the Rockies at Coors Field.

The Rockies were up 1-0 when Starling Marte and Soto singled with one out to bring up Alonso, who entered the game with a 14-game on-base streak and 18 RBIs in that span. After taking three powerful hacks — two swings-and-misses and one foul — Alonso finally made contact, drilling Tyler Kinley’s 89.5-mph slider to the warning track in center for a two-run double that gave the Mets a 2-1 lead.

The Rockies tied it in the bottom of the inning when Hilliard tripled and scored on Mickey Moniak’s sharp single to left.

“No one is immune to anything,” Alonso said when asked why he was one of the few who have excelled with their situational hitting. “I just want to win and stick to my plan . . . and really stay disciplined to that.”

As for Lindor, “we are spoiled” with him, Alonso said. “He’s willing to strap it on regardless of how he feels or regardless of how his health is, and I’ve seen him do stuff like this all the time.”

While Lindor got his hero’s journey, Brett Baty got his redemption arc.

A day after making a gaffe that cost the Mets a game, Baty made a play that might have saved them in the eighth.

With the score tied at 2 and Ryne Stanek in to pitch, Jordan Beck singled, Thairo Estrada doubled and Hunter Goodman walked to load the bases with none out. Ryan McMahon hit a sharp liner to third that Baty was able to snag on the fly before applying the tag to Beck to double him off third. Brenton Doyle then struck out.

Before all that, the Mets had a succession of squandered chances, including a bases-loaded, none-out situation in the sixth that ended with three straight strikeouts.

Thankfully for the Mets, they had Lindor, his nine working toes and his one big swing.

Sean Manaea (oblique) had his first rehab outing with Class A Brooklyn on Friday, allowing four runs (three earned), four hits and no walks with two strikeouts on 36 pitches in 1 2⁄3 innings.