.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff chances departing, the Seat Mariners discovered an excruciating brand new method to lose.A zooming bat. A brief mind blunder. As well as a strange double play." I do not assume I have actually ever before viewed that just before in an activity. Just a strange situation," Seattle supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the New york city Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, but it was actually just how the bottom of the 10th played out that will definitely be actually born in mind in Mariners folklore as another chapter in a time that has gone awry.With distance runners at the edges, Julio Rodru00edguez was picked off third bottom after dodging a flying bat that slipped out of the hands of Randy Arozarena when he began moving." I have actually asked a handful of guys and all of all of them mentioned, 'I have actually never observed that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff singular in the 10th advanced Rodru00edguez, the automated distance runner, from keystone to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, as well as his bat went cruising away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Honestly, I viewed the baseball bat flighting right as much as my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's young star scuttled off the beaten track into foul area as the baseball bat bounded responsible for third base, as well as it took him a second to collect yourself. Yet the play wasn't dead, and catcher Austin Wells created a fast throw to 3rd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez prior to he could get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez claimed he thought the play mored than since the baseball bat went soaring." After I saw the baseball bat I assumed it was going to be a dead play, and after that they were visiting grab the bat and also I was actually visiting get back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez stated. "I fled and switched my back to the industry as well as I heard [third bottom coach] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Respond to third.' That is actually when I returned to third." Truthfully, then I had not been definitely dealing with the game, just attempting to escape the baseball bat coming with 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 error came an evening after Victor Robles created the dubious selection to attempt stealing home in the very first inning against New york city while Turner went to home plate with a 3-0 count as well as the manners packed. Robles was out and the Yankees spun to a quick and easy victory.This loss was actually much more aggravating for Seat as each Houston as well as Minnesota lost earlier Wednesday, implying the Mariners skipped a chance to make up needed ground in the AL West and also wild-card nationalities. Seat is actually five activities rear of first-place Houston in the branch and also three responsible for Minnesota for the last AL wild-card location." Everything occurred quick as well as once more, just incredibly reactionary," Wilson mentioned. "I believe our team would certainly all leap out of the way. However just unfortunate it found yourself this way.".