Alex Avila’s heady play — with plenty of help from the Phillies — helps the Nats hold on

“We’re on a 15-second delay, so I could hear our dugout screaming,” starter Max Scherzer recalled of following the moment from the clubhouse. “The minute you hear our dugout screaming, you’re like, ‘What the heck happened?’ As I watched it unfold, I’m like, ‘Oh, my gosh, we got him in a rundown.’ Then all of a sudden Alex actually tags him out for two unassisted, which I’ve never seen before.”