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Nationals Rookie Daylen Lile Wins Game With 11th-Inning Inside-the-Park Homer at Citi Field

Statcast clocked the 22-year-old at 14.86 seconds home-to-home, punctuating a month with seven triples plus four homers rarely seen in modern MLB.

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Sep 20, 2025; New York City, New York, USA; Washington Nationals designated hitter Daylen Lile (51) hits a two run inside the park home run in the eleventh inning against the New York Mets at Citi Field. Mandatory Credit: Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images
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Overview

  • Lile’s inside-the-park home run off Tyler Rogers in the 11th inning sealed Washington’s 5-3 win over the Mets.
  • His home-to-home sprint time of 14.86 seconds is the fastest by a Nationals player in the Statcast era.
  • The extra-innings inside-the-parker was MLB’s first since Austin Hays in 2020 and the first in Nationals franchise history in extras.
  • OptaSTATS and MLB note Lile has seven triples and four homers this month, making him the first rookie to reach those marks since Vada Pinson in 1963 and just the fourth player in the last 85 years alongside Willie Mays and Enos Slaughter.
  • Statcast reported the liner hit the bottom of the center-field wall, was knocked down by a 10-foot wind effect, rolled away from Cedric Mullins, and Lile scored on a head-first dive.