.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff chances slipping away, the Seat Mariners found a distressing brand-new way to lose.A speeding baseball bat. A short-lived memory lapse. As well as an unusual double play." I do not presume I have actually ever before viewed that just before in a video game. Merely an unusual situation," Seattle supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the New York Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, however it was exactly how the bottom of the 10th participated in out that are going to be actually don't forgotten in Mariners folklore as another chapter in a time that has gone awry.With runners at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually shot third bottom after dodging a soaring baseball bat that unclothed the hands of Randy Arozarena when he started out swinging." I've asked a couple of individuals plus all of all of them stated, 'I have actually certainly never observed that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff singular in the 10th innovative Rodru00edguez, the automatic distance runner, coming from keystone to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and also his bat went cruising out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Honestly, I saw the bat flying right approximately my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's younger star scampered out of the way right into filthy region as the bat bounded behind third bottom, and also it took him a moment to regroup. But the play wasn't lifeless, and catcher Austin Wells made a simple throw to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez just before he could get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez said he thought the play mored than since the baseball bat went flying." After I observed the baseball bat I believed it was actually heading to be actually a lifeless play, and afterwards they were actually heading to pick up the bat and I was actually heading to return to 3rd," Rodru00edguez claimed. "I escaped and switched my back to the field and also I listened to [third base trainer] Manny [Acta] yelling, 'Respond to 3rd.' That is actually when I returned to third." Truthfully, at that moment I had not been truly thinking of the game, just making an effort to get away from the bat coming at me. That's what took place. That was a very first for me, for sure." Hamilton struck out Justin Turner to end it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's error happened a night after Winner Robles created the questionable selection to try taking home in the initial inning versus New York while Turner went to the plate along with a 3-0 count and the manners loaded. Robles was actually out and the Yankees spun to an effortless victory.This defeat was actually more discouraging for Seattle as each Houston and also Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, meaning the Mariners missed out on a chance to compose required ground in the AL West and wild-card races. Seattle is five video games rear of first-place Houston in the branch and 3 behind Minnesota for the final AL wild-card location." All of it took place fast and also once more, just really reactionary," Wilson stated. "I assume we will all hop off the beaten track. However just unfavorable it ended up this way.".