.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff chances departing, the Seat Mariners found an excruciating brand new means to lose.A zooming baseball bat. A temporary moment breach. And a strange double play." I don't assume I have actually ever seen that just before in a video game. Just an odd circumstance," Seat manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the New York Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, however it was exactly how the bottom of the 10th participated in out that will certainly be remembered in Mariners tradition as another section in a time that has gone awry.With joggers at the edges, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually picked off third foundation after dodging a flying baseball bat that unclothed the palms of Randy Arozarena when he headed swinging." I've asked a handful of individuals plus all of them said, 'I've never ever viewed that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle tracked 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff single in the 10th state-of-the-art Rodru00edguez, the automated runner, coming from second base to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and also his bat went setting sail out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Frankly, I found the bat flying right as much as my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful celebrity scampered off the beaten track in to foul area as the bat bounded behind third foundation, and also it took him an instant to regroup. Yet the play had not been dead, and also catcher Austin Wells created an easy toss to 3rd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez before he could get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez claimed he thought the play was over considering that the baseball bat went flying." After I found the baseball bat I believed it was actually heading to be actually a dead play, and afterwards they were going to get the bat as well as I was visiting return to 3rd," Rodru00edguez said. "I got out as well as turned my spine to the area and also I listened to [third bottom coach] Manny [Acta] yelling, 'Respond to 3rd.' That's when I returned to third." Frankly, at that moment I wasn't definitely dealing with the activity, just attempting to avoid the bat coming at me. That's what happened. That was a 1st for me, for sure." Hamilton struck out Justin Turner to finish it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's error came an evening after Victor Robles created the doubtful selection to try swiping house in the very first inning against New York while Turner was at home plate along with a 3-0 count and also the manners filled. Robles was out and also the Yankees spun to a simple victory.This defeat was actually more frustrating for Seat as both Houston and also Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, indicating the Mariners skipped a possibility to make up needed ground in the AL West and wild-card races. Seattle is actually five activities back of first-place Houston in the branch as well as 3 responsible for Minnesota for the last AL wild-card spot." Everything took place swiftly and also once again, simply incredibly reactionary," Wilson claimed. "I believe our company will all leap out of the way. Yet simply unfortunate it wound up that way.".