.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff possibilities escaping, the Seat Mariners found an agonizing brand new means to lose.A flying baseball bat. A momentary mind breach. As well as a bizarre dual play." I do not assume I have actually ever before found that prior to in a video game. Simply a weird situation," Seattle manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the Nyc Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, but it was actually exactly how all-time low of the 10th played out that will definitely be actually kept in mind in Mariners tradition as another section in a time that has gone awry.With runners at the corners, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually shot third bottom after evading a soaring bat that slipped out of the palms of Randy Arozarena when he set out swinging." I've talked to a handful of fellas and all of them said, 'I have actually certainly never found that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle tracked 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th enhanced Rodru00edguez, the automated distance runner, coming from second base to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and also his baseball bat went cruising out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." In all honesty, I saw the baseball bat flying right as much as my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful star scuttled out of the way right into nasty area as the bat bounded behind third base, and also it took him a second to collect yourself. However the play had not been dead, as well as catcher Austin Wells made an easy toss to third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez before he might get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez said he presumed the play was over because the bat went flying." After I observed the bat I believed it was mosting likely to be a dead play, and after that they were heading to pick up the bat and I was visiting go back to third," Rodru00edguez stated. "I fled and also transformed my spine to the area and I heard [3rd bottom coach] Manny [Acta] yelling, 'Get back to third.' That's when I responded to third." Frankly, at that moment I had not been definitely dealing with the activity, merely making an effort to get away from the bat coming with me. That's what happened. That was actually an initial for me, for sure." Hamilton began Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's error happened an evening after Winner Robles created the questionable decision to try taking house in the first inning versus New york city while Turner went to the plate along with a 3-0 count and the manners filled. Robles was out as well as the Yankees spun to a very easy victory.This defeat was actually more irritating for Seat as each Houston as well as Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, implying the Mariners missed out on a possibility to compose required ground in the AL West as well as wild-card races. Seattle is actually five games back of first-place Houston in the division and 3 behind Minnesota for the last AL wild-card location." All of it took place quickly as well as once more, merely quite reactionary," Wilson pointed out. "I think our experts would certainly all jump out of the way. But simply unfortunate it ended up in this way.".