{"id":170762,"date":"2025-09-21T00:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T00:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170762\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T00:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T00:35:09","slug":"nationals-5-3-mets-sep-20-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170762\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals 5-3 Mets (Sep 20, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4917889\/daylen-lile\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daylen Lile<\/a> hit an inside-the-park homer in the 11th inning that sent the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-nationals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Nationals<\/a> past the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nym\/new-york-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a> 5-3 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>              With a runner on first base and one out, Lile drove a 2-2 sinker from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/34026\/tyler-rogers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Rogers<\/a> (4-6) off the center-field wall. The ball caromed far away from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/35578\/cedric-mullins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cedric Mullins<\/a> as the speedy Lile circled the bases and scored easily with a headfirst slide at home plate.<\/p>\n<p>              PJ Poulin retired the side in order in the bottom half for his first career save, throwing a called third strike past <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36969\/juan-soto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Juan Soto<\/a> to end it.<\/p>\n<p>              It was a costly defeat for the Mets, who began the day with a two-game lead over Cincinnati for the final National League wild card. New York has lost 10 of 14 overall.<\/p>\n<p>              The victory snapped a six-game skid for the last-place Nationals and ensured they won&#8217;t lose 100 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>              New York was held scoreless for seven innings by three Washington pitchers, before pinch-hitter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41034\/mark-vientos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Vientos<\/a> delivered a two-run double in the eighth and Soto tied it 3-all with an RBI single in the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212; <\/p>\n<p>              AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; \u2014 Daylen Lile hit an inside-the-park homer in the 11th inning that sent the Washington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-170762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}