Lile Stays Hot in Narrow Win

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Nats edged the Orioles 3-2 on Friday night in front of a sold out crowd in Navy Yard. Al & Mark praise the nearly 39,000 fans in attendance who packed the house for the well received promotion of "Hot Dog Day". (08:00) Zack Littell tossed five shutout innings before handing the ball off to Andrew Alvarez. This was the first scoreless outing of the season for Littell in his 9th appearance. Blake Butera showed confidence in Littell in allowing him the opportunity to wriggle out of a jam in the top of the 5th. (14:45) Andrew Alvarez had a strong performance after returning from Rochester. Alvarez tossed three scoreless innings before running into trouble in the top of the 9th. Alvarez was relieved by Gus Varland with no outs and then Richard Lovelady came in to nail down the final Orioles out. (24:00) Daylen Lile homered for 4th time this week to put Washington up 3-0. Lile had three of the team's hits in the victory and his OPS is now at .798; making him the clear 3rd best hitter in the lineup. (29:15) Cade Cavalli will take the mound on Saturday afternoon as the team looks to finally get back to .500. Thursday's loss was the 15th consecutive one for Washington when entering the affair at one game below .500.

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0:00.0	Walters is open late and a great spot to watch the final rounds of the NBA and Stanley Cup playoffs.
0:06.0	Walter's Sports Bar and Restaurant is located just across the street from Nationals Park.
0:15.0	Oz brings hands together, one-on-one-out, one-nothing Nats, the pitch.
0:19.0	Lyle tries one high in the air to right field.
0:21.7	O'Neill is going back.
0:22.9	He's at the warning track, right in front of the wall.
0:24.9	It is out there.
0:27.4	Dayland Lyle homers to right field.
0:31.1	He remains red hot.
0:34.0	Three nothing nationals on Lyle's seventh homer of the season. Feeling pretty good right now. You know, just everything I'm doing before the game to prepare for it and just going out there, not thinking about anything, just going to play, having fun. The runner at second, Tyler O'Neill, Leone, Tavares, the runner at first. Two out top of the knife.
0:57.5	Love Lady to the belt. The pitch. We get a ground ball up the middle. It's a base headed to center field. Rounding third, coming home O'Neill. Rounding second, heading for third
1:02.5	Tveris. It's now the Nationals three, the Orioles two, with a tying run now, Tavares at
1:08.3	third base. The bases are loaded.
1:12.0	He comes set.
1:13.5	One ball, two strikes.
1:15.0	The pitch.
1:16.0	Staffs win.
1:17.1	He went too far.
1:18.6	The swing and a miss.
1:20.0	He struck him out.
1:21.6	And a curly Ws in the books.
1:24.4	Wattel doing what he did.
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