.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff odds slipping away, the Seat Mariners located an agonizing new technique to lose.A flying baseball bat. A momentary mind lapse. As well as a peculiar double play." I don't assume I have actually ever observed that prior to in a game. Only a peculiar circumstance," Seattle manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the New york city Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, however it was exactly how all-time low of the 10th played out that will certainly be actually born in mind in Mariners tradition as yet another chapter in a time that has actually gone awry.With runners at the edges, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually shot 3rd foundation after dodging a soaring baseball bat that unclothed the palms of Randy Arozarena when he started out swinging." I've talked to a few individuals plus all of them claimed, 'I've never viewed that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle tracked 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff single in the 10th state-of-the-art Rodru00edguez, the automatic distance runner, coming from keystone to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, and his bat went sailing out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Honestly, I observed the baseball bat taking flight right approximately my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful superstar scuttled out of the way in to foul area as the baseball bat skipped behind third bottom, and also it took him an instant to regroup. But the play wasn't lifeless, as well as catcher Austin Wells made an easy toss to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez before he might get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez stated he thought the play mored than due to the fact that the bat went flying." After I observed the bat I believed it was going to be a dead play, and afterwards they were heading to grab the bat and I was heading to get back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez mentioned. "I fled and also switched my back to the industry as well as I heard [third foundation train] Manny [Acta] shouting, 'Get back to third.' That's when I got back to third." In all honesty, then I wasn't actually considering the game, only attempting to escape the baseball bat coming with me. That's what happened. That was an initial for me, for sure." Hamilton struck out Justin Turner to finish it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's blunder came an evening after Victor Robles made the suspicious decision to make an effort taking home in the very first inning versus New York while Turner went to home plate with a 3-0 count and the bases filled. Robles was actually out and the Yankees spun to a simple victory.This loss was actually much more annoying for Seat as both Houston as well as Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, meaning the Mariners skipped an opportunity to compose needed ground in the AL West as well as wild-card races. Seattle is 5 games rear of first-place Houston in the branch as well as three responsible for Minnesota for the final AL wild-card area." It all took place quick and also once again, just very reactionary," Wilson claimed. "I believe our company 'd all hop out of the way. Yet simply unfortunate it ended up this way.".