.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff possibilities slipping away, the Seattle Mariners located an agonizing brand new way to lose.A speeding bat. A brief moment . As well as an unusual dual play." I don't assume I have actually ever observed that just before in a video game. Simply a weird situation," Seat manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the The big apple Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, yet it was exactly how the bottom of the 10th participated in out that are going to be actually kept in mind in Mariners folklore as an additional chapter in a period that has gone awry.With distance runners at the corners, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually shot 3rd base after evading a flying baseball bat that slipped out of the palms of Randy Arozarena when he started out moving." I have actually asked a few people and all of all of them claimed, 'I have actually never ever seen that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle routed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff singular in the 10th sophisticated Rodru00edguez, the automatic runner, coming from second base to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and his bat went sailing out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Honestly, I viewed the bat flighting right approximately my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful celebrity scuttled out of the way into filthy region as the baseball bat bounded responsible for third base, and also it took him a second to collect yourself. Yet the play had not been lifeless, and catcher Austin Wells made a simple throw to third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez just before he could possibly return to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he thought the play was over due to the fact that the bat went flying." After I saw the baseball bat I assumed it was actually going to be actually a dead play, and afterwards they were actually heading to get the baseball bat and also I was heading to go back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez pointed out. "I escaped as well as turned my spine to the field as well as I listened to [third bottom coach] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Return to third.' That's when I returned to third." Honestly, at that moment I had not been truly thinking of the activity, simply making an effort to escape the baseball bat coming at me. That's what took place. That was actually a very first for me, for certain." Hamilton started out Justin Turner to end it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's oversight happened an evening after Victor Robles made the dubious selection to make an effort swiping home in the 1st inning versus New york city while Turner went to the plate along with a 3-0 matter and the manners filled. Robles was out and the Yankees spun to a simple victory.This defeat was actually extra irritating for Seattle as each Houston and Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, meaning the Mariners overlooked a chance to make up needed ground in the AL West as well as wild-card nationalities. Seat is actually five activities back of first-place Houston in the department and three behind Minnesota for the last AL wild-card location." It all happened quick and once more, merely incredibly reactionary," Wilson stated. "I presume we will all hop out of the way. However merely unfavorable it wound up that way.".