Daylen Lile hit the tie-breaking two-run inside-the-park home run in the 11th inning Saturday for the visiting Washington Nationals, who squandered a three-run lead before handing the New York Mets a potentially damaging 5-3 loss in the middle game of a three-game series.

Automatic runner CJ Abrams opened the 11th by getting tagged out as he tried advancing to third on Andres Chaparro's grounder against Tyler Rogers (4-6) before Lile hit a ball well over the head of Mets centerfielder Cedric Mullins.

The ball bounced off the fence and caromed past Mullins and the fleet-footed Lile, who has 11 triples in just 85 games this season, never broke stride sprinting around the bases and slid home well ahead of the throw.

Sauryn Lao (1-0) wriggled out of a two-on, none-out jam in the 10th before

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