.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff odds departing, the Seat Mariners discovered an excruciating brand-new technique to lose.A zooming baseball bat. A short-term memory blunder. As well as a strange double play." I don't think I have actually ever found that prior to in a game. Simply a weird condition," Seat manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the New york city Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, but it was just how the bottom of the 10th played out that will definitely be born in mind in Mariners lore as one more chapter in a time that has actually gone awry.With joggers at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually picked off third bottom after evading a flying baseball bat that unclothed the palms of Randy Arozarena when he started out swinging." I've talked to a few fellas and all of all of them pointed out, 'I've never ever observed that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle routed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff singular in the 10th advanced Rodru00edguez, the automatic runner, from keystone to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and his baseball bat went cruising away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." In all honesty, I observed the bat piloting right as much as my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's younger celebrity scuttled out of the way into foul territory as the baseball bat bounded responsible for third bottom, and also it took him a second to regroup. But the play wasn't dead, and also catcher Austin Wells created a simple throw to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez before he could respond to the bag.Rodru00edguez said he thought the play mored than since the baseball bat went flying." After I saw the baseball bat I assumed it was actually heading to be actually a dead play, and after that they were heading to get the bat and I was actually going to go back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez claimed. "I escaped and switched my back to the area and also I listened to [3rd foundation coach] Manny [Acta] screaming, 'Respond to 3rd.' That is actually when I responded to third." Truthfully, at that moment I wasn't truly considering the activity, simply trying to avoid the baseball bat coming at me. That's what occurred. That was actually a first for me, for certain." Hamilton started out Justin Turner to finish it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's blunder came a night after Winner Robles created the suspicious selection to make an effort stealing house in the initial inning against Nyc while Turner went to the plate along with a 3-0 count as well as the manners loaded. Robles was actually out as well as the Yankees spun to a simple victory.This loss was actually a lot more irritating for Seat as both Houston and Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, indicating the Mariners skipped an opportunity to make up needed to have ground in the AL West as well as wild-card races. Seat is five video games back of first-place Houston in the department as well as 3 behind Minnesota for the final AL wild-card location." Everything took place quickly as well as once again, only extremely reactionary," Wilson mentioned. "I believe we will all hop out of the way. However simply unfavorable it ended up in this way.".