.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff possibilities slipping away, the Seat Mariners located an excruciating brand-new method to lose.A zooming bat. A brief memory blunder. And also a strange dual play." I do not presume I have actually ever before found that before in a game. Just an odd situation," Seat manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the The big apple Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, yet it was actually exactly how the bottom of the 10th participated in out that will be actually kept in mind in Mariners tradition as one more section in a period that has gone awry.With runners at the corners, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually shot 3rd bottom after dodging a flying baseball bat that slipped out of the palms of Randy Arozarena when he set out moving." I have actually asked a few people plus all of them stated, 'I've never seen that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th innovative Rodru00edguez, the automated runner, coming from second base to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and also his baseball bat went sailing out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Honestly, I saw the baseball bat taking flight right up to my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful celebrity scampered out of the way into repulsive region as the bat jumped responsible for 3rd bottom, and also it took him an instant to regroup. But the play wasn't dead, as well as catcher Austin Wells created a simple toss to third baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez just before he could possibly return to the bag.Rodru00edguez stated he presumed the play mored than since the baseball bat went soaring." After I found the baseball bat I assumed it was actually going to be a lifeless play, and after that they were mosting likely to get the baseball bat and I was mosting likely to return to 3rd," Rodru00edguez said. "I fled and turned my spine to the industry and I heard [third foundation coach] Manny [Acta] shouting, 'Get back to third.' That's when I returned to 3rd." Frankly, at that moment I wasn't definitely dealing with the game, merely making an effort to get away from the baseball bat coming at me. That's what occurred. That was actually a very first for me, for certain." Hamilton started out Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's error came a night after Winner Robles made the questionable decision to attempt stealing home in the 1st inning versus New York while Turner was at home plate with a 3-0 count and also the manners packed. Robles was actually out as well as the Yankees rolled to an effortless victory.This defeat was actually extra irritating for Seattle as each Houston and Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, meaning the Mariners skipped a possibility to make up needed ground in the AL West and also wild-card ethnicities. Seat is 5 video games back of first-place Houston in the branch and three responsible for Minnesota for the final AL wild-card spot." All of it occurred quick and also once more, only really reactionary," Wilson stated. "I think our team 'd all leap off the beaten track. But merely unfortunate it ended up this way.".