Lile's 11th Inning Inside-the-Park-Homer Stuns Citi Field

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The Nats handed the Mets a crucial defeat on Saturday afternoon in Queens. Mark (From NYC) & Al meet after the Nationals blew an early 3-0 lead, but Daylen Lile's exciting 2-run Inside-the-Park-Home run put them ahead for good 5-3. (05:00) It looked initially that Lile's big hit would be a triple as he is one away from setting a franchise record. Lile's OPS is now ahead of James Wood (.814 vs. .807). (08:45) CJ Abrams made a brutal TOOTBLAN in the top of the 11th just before Lile's homer. Abrams was then replaced in the field in the bottom of the 11th. (13:10) Cade Cavalli had another good outing as he tossed five shutout innings. Cavalli has only had one bad stat since getting called up from AAA in early August. (17:30) Jose A. Ferrer took over in the 8th and could not protect the 3-run lead. New York scored a pair off the lefty in the 8th and then Juan Soto's 9th inning single sent the game to extra innings. (25:00) Reaction to the expansive story from the Washington Post on the current ownership situation with the Nats. (37:30) Brief mention of recent comments by Ted Leonsis.

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0:00.0	Walters has up to the stakes for Sunday's rubber match between the Nats and Mets.
0:05.0	If the Nationals win today, then your first beer at the podcast party is on Walters on October 10th.
0:12.1	The Nats Chat podcast party is at 7 p.m. on Friday night, October 10th at Walters, just across the street from the ballpark.
0:23.6	And the pitch.
0:24.6	Swing by Lyle to drive to center field, sending Mullins back.
0:27.6	Way back, making it over his head.
0:28.6	It is.
0:29.6	It's off the wall and bounces back towards center field.
0:32.6	Rounding third, Chaparro Hill score.
0:34.6	Lyle heading for third.
0:35.6	They're going to wave him home.
0:36.6	Drive for an inside the park home run, and the throw is too high. Lyle dives across the plate
0:43.0	with an inside the park to run homer in the top of the 11th inning, and he has given the Nationals
0:49.5	the lead here at City Field. Unbelievable. It's now the Nationals five of the Mets three.
0:57.3	I'm going to tell you, it was one of the most amazing game that I've been with this year
1:03.3	with these guys. You know, they never give up. And welcome to Natschat, along with Masson Sports.com,
1:10.8	Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman,
1:12.3	who was at City Field in New York City. I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al Galdi podcast. We on Saturday
1:17.8	had maybe the National's wildest win of the season, a 5-3-11 inning win at the New York Mets in
1:24.9	game two of a three-game series. The win snapped the Nats five-game
1:28.5	losing streak. The win was a devastating loss for the Mets as they fight for their postseason
1:33.6	lives. This was a game in which the Nats blue, a 3-0 eighth inning lead, but this was a game
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