.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff chances departing, the Seattle Mariners located an excruciating brand new technique to lose.A zooming bat. A momentary memory lapse. And also a peculiar dual play." I don't assume I have actually ever found that prior to in an activity. Only a weird situation," Seattle supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the The big apple Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, yet it was actually exactly how the bottom of the 10th participated in out that are going to be actually don't forgotten in Mariners tradition as another section in a period that has actually gone awry.With joggers at the corners, Julio Rodru00edguez was shot third base after dodging a flying baseball bat that unclothed the palms of Randy Arozarena when he set out moving." I have actually asked a couple of men plus all of them said, 'I have actually certainly never found that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff single in the 10th state-of-the-art Rodru00edguez, the automatic distance runner, coming from keystone to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and also his bat went cruising away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Truthfully, I saw the baseball bat flying right approximately my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful superstar scuttled out of the way right into filthy territory as the bat jumped behind 3rd base, and also it took him an instant to regroup. Yet the play wasn't dead, and catcher Austin Wells created a simple toss to third baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez before he can respond to the bag.Rodru00edguez said he presumed the play was over since the baseball bat went soaring." After I viewed the baseball bat I thought it was visiting be a dead play, and after that they were actually mosting likely to get the baseball bat as well as I was visiting go back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez pointed out. "I fled and also transformed my spine to the field as well as I listened to [3rd bottom train] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Return to third.' That's when I got back to 3rd." Honestly, then I wasn't truly considering the video game, just trying to escape the baseball bat coming with me. That's what happened. That was actually a 1st for me, without a doubt." Hamilton started out Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's error happened a night after Victor Robles created the doubtful choice to attempt stealing home in the very first inning against Nyc while Turner went to the plate with a 3-0 count as well as the manners loaded. Robles was out and also the Yankees rolled to an easy victory.This loss was extra aggravating for Seat as each Houston and also Minnesota lost earlier Wednesday, implying the Mariners missed an opportunity to compose required ground in the AL West as well as wild-card races. Seat is 5 activities back of first-place Houston in the department and also 3 responsible for Minnesota for the last AL wild-card location." Everything happened quick as well as once again, simply extremely reactionary," Wilson mentioned. "I think we would certainly all hop out of the way. But simply unlucky it found yourself this way.".