.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff chances departing, the Seat Mariners located a painful new means to lose.A flying bat. A short-term moment blunder. And an unusual dual play." I don't believe I have actually ever before observed that before in a video game. Only a peculiar condition," Seattle manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the New york city Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, yet it was exactly how the bottom of the 10th played out that are going to be don't forgotten in Mariners folklore as one more chapter in a time that has gone awry.With distance runners at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was shot third base after dodging a soaring baseball bat that unclothed the palms of Randy Arozarena when he began swinging." I have actually talked to a handful of people plus all of all of them stated, 'I've certainly never seen that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle routed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th enhanced Rodru00edguez, the automated runner, from second base to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, and his baseball bat went voyaging out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." In all honesty, I observed the baseball bat flighting right around my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's young superstar scampered off the beaten track into filthy territory as the baseball bat skipped behind 3rd foundation, as well as it took him a minute to collect yourself. However the play wasn't dead, and catcher Austin Wells created an easy throw to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez just before he could possibly respond to the bag.Rodru00edguez claimed he presumed the play was over given that the baseball bat went soaring." After I saw the baseball bat I assumed it was actually visiting be a lifeless play, and then they were visiting pick up the baseball bat and also I was actually mosting likely to get back to third," Rodru00edguez claimed. "I escaped and also turned my spine to the field and I heard [3rd foundation coach] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Return to 3rd.' That's when I returned to third." In all honesty, then I had not been really considering the activity, only trying to escape the baseball bat coming with me. That's what happened. That was actually a 1st for me, for sure." Hamilton set out Justin Turner to end it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's error happened an evening after Victor Robles made the doubtful decision to try stealing home in the first inning versus The big apple while Turner was at the plate with a 3-0 matter and the bases filled. Robles was actually out as well as the Yankees spun to a quick and easy victory.This loss was much more irritating for Seattle as each Houston and also Minnesota lost earlier Wednesday, suggesting the Mariners overlooked an odds to compose required ground in the AL West as well as wild-card races. Seattle is actually 5 games back of first-place Houston in the department and also three responsible for Minnesota for the ultimate AL wild-card spot." All of it occurred swiftly as well as again, merely quite reactionary," Wilson claimed. "I think our company will all jump off the beaten track. However simply unfavorable it wound up by doing this.".