.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff opportunities escaping, the Seattle Mariners discovered a distressing brand-new means to lose.A speeding baseball bat. A short-lived moment . And a peculiar double play." I do not believe I have actually ever found that just before in a video game. Only a weird circumstance," Seattle supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the Nyc Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, but it was just how all-time low of the 10th participated in out that will definitely be actually always remembered in Mariners lore as one more section in a season that has actually gone awry.With distance runners at the corners, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually shot third foundation after dodging a flying bat that slipped out of the palms of Randy Arozarena when he set out moving." I've asked a handful of people plus all of all of them said, 'I have actually never seen that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle tracked 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff singular in the 10th enhanced Rodru00edguez, the automated runner, coming from keystone to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and his baseball bat went cruising away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." In all honesty, I viewed the bat flighting right around my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful star scuttled out of the way into filthy territory as the bat jumped responsible for 3rd base, and also it took him a second to regroup. However the play wasn't dead, and also catcher Austin Wells made an easy toss to third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez just before he could possibly get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez claimed he believed the play ended due to the fact that the bat went flying." After I found the bat I assumed it was actually mosting likely to be actually a dead play, and afterwards they were visiting pick up the baseball bat and I was actually visiting go back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez mentioned. "I got out and switched my spine to the area and I heard [third foundation train] Manny [Acta] screaming, 'Respond to third.' That is actually when I returned to third." Frankly, then I had not been truly considering the video game, only trying to get away from the bat coming at me. That's what occurred. That was a first for me, for sure." Hamilton set out Justin Turner to end it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's error happened a night after Victor Robles made the doubtful selection to make an effort stealing house in the first inning against The big apple while Turner went to home plate along with a 3-0 matter and also the bases loaded. Robles was actually out and also the Yankees rolled to an easy victory.This loss was actually extra irritating for Seat as both Houston and Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, implying the Mariners missed out on a possibility to comprise required ground in the AL West and wild-card nationalities. Seat is five games rear of first-place Houston in the branch and also three responsible for Minnesota for the last AL wild-card area." All of it happened swiftly and also once more, just really reactionary," Wilson pointed out. "I presume our team 'd all hop out of the way. However simply unlucky it wound up this way.".