.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff possibilities slipping away, the Seattle Mariners found an unpleasant new method to lose.A zooming baseball bat. A brief moment breach. And also a peculiar double play." I do not believe I've ever before found that prior to in a video game. Only a strange 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 exactly how all-time low of the 10th played out that will certainly be remembered in Mariners tradition as yet another section in a season that has actually gone awry.With runners at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually shot third foundation after evading a flying baseball bat that unclothed the hands of Randy Arozarena when he set out moving." I have actually talked to a couple of people and all of them mentioned, 'I've never found that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle routed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th sophisticated Rodru00edguez, the automatic runner, from second base to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, as well as his bat went setting sail out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Frankly, I viewed the baseball bat taking flight right up to my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's younger star scampered out of the way into foul area as the baseball bat jumped behind third bottom, and also it took him a second to collect yourself. But the play had not been dead, and catcher Austin Wells created a simple throw to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez prior to he could respond to the bag.Rodru00edguez said he believed the play ended given that the baseball bat went flying." After I observed the bat I thought it was actually visiting be actually a lifeless play, and after that they were actually heading to pick up the bat and also I was mosting likely to go back to third," Rodru00edguez stated. "I got away and turned my back to the field and I heard [third bottom trainer] Manny [Acta] yelling, 'Respond to third.' That is actually when I responded to third." Frankly, at that moment I had not been actually considering the game, only trying to escape the baseball bat coming at me. That's what happened. That was a very first for me, for certain." Hamilton began Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's blunder came an evening after Victor Robles made the dubious decision to make an effort taking home in the first inning versus New york city while Turner went to home plate with a 3-0 count and also the manners packed. Robles was actually out and also the Yankees spun to a quick and easy victory.This defeat was much more frustrating for Seat as both Houston as well as Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, suggesting the Mariners skipped a chance to comprise needed ground in the AL West and wild-card nationalities. Seat is five games back of first-place Houston in the department as well as three behind Minnesota for the ultimate AL wild-card location." All of it happened swiftly and also again, merely very reactionary," Wilson stated. "I assume our experts 'd all dive out of the way. But simply unfortunate it ended up this way.".