.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff possibilities slipping away, the Seattle Mariners discovered an excruciating new way to lose.A zooming bat. A brief mind breach. And also a strange dual play." I do not assume I've ever observed that just before in a game. Only an odd circumstance," Seat supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the The big apple Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, but it was actually exactly how the bottom of the 10th participated in out that will certainly be actually always remembered in Mariners lore as an additional phase in a period that has actually gone awry.With distance runners at the corners, Julio Rodru00edguez was shot third base after evading a flying baseball bat that slipped out of the palms of Randy Arozarena when he headed moving." I've inquired a handful of people and all of all of them said, 'I have actually never found that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff single in the 10th sophisticated Rodru00edguez, the automated jogger, coming from second base to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, and his baseball bat went sailing away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Honestly, I observed the baseball bat piloting right up to my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's young celebrity scuttled off the beaten track into filthy area as the bat jumped behind third foundation, and also it took him a moment to collect yourself. Yet the play had not been lifeless, as well as catcher Austin Wells created an easy toss to third baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez before he could possibly return to the bag.Rodru00edguez claimed he assumed the play was over because the baseball bat went soaring." After I viewed the bat I thought it was going to be a dead play, and afterwards they were actually visiting get the baseball bat and also I was heading to get back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez claimed. "I got out and turned my back to the industry and also I heard [3rd bottom instructor] Manny [Acta] shouting, 'Respond to 3rd.' That is actually when I returned to 3rd." Frankly, then I had not been really thinking of the activity, only attempting to escape the bat coming with me. That's what happened. That was actually a first for me, for sure." Hamilton set out Justin Turner to end it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's oversight came a night after Winner Robles made the questionable choice to try stealing home in the first inning versus Nyc while Turner was at the plate along with a 3-0 count and also the bases packed. Robles was actually out and also the Yankees spun to a very easy victory.This defeat was even more annoying for Seat as both Houston and Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, meaning the Mariners missed an odds to compose required ground in the AL West as well as wild-card ethnicities. Seattle is five games back of first-place Houston in the branch and three behind Minnesota for the ultimate AL wild-card place." Everything happened swiftly as well as again, merely very reactionary," Wilson stated. "I think our company will all leap out of the way. However merely unfortunate it wound up that way.".