.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff opportunities slipping away, the Seat Mariners discovered an excruciating brand new method to lose.A zooming baseball bat. A short-term moment blunder. And a bizarre double play." I don't presume I've ever found that just before in an activity. Only a weird scenario," Seat manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the New York Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, however it was actually just how the bottom of the 10th participated in out that will definitely be actually remembered in Mariners folklore as yet another chapter in a time that has gone awry.With distance runners at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually shot third foundation after evading a flying bat that slipped out of the palms of Randy Arozarena when he started out swinging." I've inquired a couple of people and all of all of them pointed out, 'I have actually never viewed that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle tracked 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff singular in the 10th innovative Rodru00edguez, the automatic jogger, coming from keystone to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and his baseball bat went voyaging out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Truthfully, I observed the bat piloting right around my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's younger superstar scampered out of the way in to nasty territory as the bat bounded responsible for third foundation, and it took him a minute to regroup. But the play had not been dead, and also catcher Austin Wells made a quick toss to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez just before he could possibly return to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he assumed the play mored than given that the baseball bat went soaring." After I saw the baseball bat I believed it was actually going to be actually a lifeless play, and after that they were heading to grab the bat and I was actually mosting likely to get back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez mentioned. "I got out as well as switched my spine to the industry as well as I heard [3rd base trainer] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Get back to 3rd.' That's when I got back to 3rd." In all honesty, at that moment I had not been actually thinking of the video game, just attempting to escape the bat coming with me. That's what occurred. That was an initial for me, without a doubt." Hamilton began Justin Turner to finish it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's oversight came an evening after Victor Robles made the suspicious choice to make an effort taking home in the first inning versus The big apple while Turner was at the plate with a 3-0 matter and also the manners filled. Robles was actually out and the Yankees rolled to a simple victory.This defeat was a lot more aggravating for Seattle as both Houston and Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, meaning the Mariners skipped a chance to compose needed ground in the AL West as well as wild-card ethnicities. Seat is actually five video games rear of first-place Houston in the branch as well as three behind Minnesota for the ultimate AL wild-card location." Everything occurred quickly as well as once more, simply quite reactionary," Wilson said. "I assume we 'd all hop out of the way. But merely unfortunate it ended up in this way.".