.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff chances departing, the Seat Mariners located a distressing brand-new way to lose.A zooming baseball bat. A brief moment oversight. And a peculiar dual play." I don't presume I have actually ever observed that before in a game. Just an odd situation," Seat supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the Nyc Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, yet it was actually just how all-time low of the 10th participated in out that are going to be always remembered in Mariners lore as one more section in a time that has actually gone awry.With runners at the edges, Julio Rodru00edguez was shot 3rd base after dodging a flying bat that slipped out of the hands of Randy Arozarena when he struck out moving." I've talked to a couple of guys and all of them claimed, 'I have actually never ever observed that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th innovative Rodru00edguez, the automatic distance runner, from keystone to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and his baseball bat went voyaging away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Honestly, I viewed the bat flighting right as much as my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's young celebrity scuttled out of the way in to foul region as the baseball bat jumped responsible for third foundation, and also it took him a moment to collect yourself. However the play wasn't lifeless, as well as catcher Austin Wells made a fast throw to 3rd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez just before he can get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he believed the play was over due to the fact that the baseball bat went flying." After I viewed the bat I believed it was heading to be a dead play, and after that they were actually visiting get the baseball bat and also I was visiting go back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez pointed out. "I escaped and also transformed my spine to the area as well as I heard [3rd base trainer] Manny [Acta] shouting, 'Respond to third.' That is actually when I returned to third." Truthfully, at that moment I had not been definitely thinking of the activity, only attempting to get away from the baseball bat coming at me. That's what occurred. That was a first for me, for sure." Hamilton started out Justin Turner to end it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's mistake happened a night after Winner Robles made the dubious choice to try swiping house in the 1st inning versus The big apple while Turner went to home plate along with a 3-0 matter and the manners filled. Robles was actually out and the Yankees spun to an effortless victory.This defeat was actually extra discouraging for Seattle as each Houston and also Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, implying the Mariners missed a possibility to compose needed to have ground in the AL West as well as wild-card ethnicities. Seat is five activities rear of first-place Houston in the department and 3 responsible for Minnesota for the last AL wild-card location." It all occurred quick and once more, simply really reactionary," Wilson stated. "I think our team will all dive off the beaten track. However merely unlucky it ended up by doing this.".