.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff opportunities escaping, the Seattle Mariners found a painful new way to lose.A speeding baseball bat. A short-term moment lapse. And also a strange dual play." I do not believe I've ever before observed that prior to in a video game. Just a weird circumstance," Seat manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the New york city Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, however it was actually exactly how the bottom of the 10th participated in out that will definitely be actually kept in mind in Mariners folklore as yet another section in a time that has gone awry.With distance runners at the edges, Julio Rodru00edguez was shot third foundation after evading a flying baseball bat that unclothed the palms of Randy Arozarena when he started out swinging." I've inquired a couple of fellas plus all of all of them said, 'I have actually never observed that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff single in the 10th advanced Rodru00edguez, the automated distance runner, from second base to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, and also his baseball bat went setting sail away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Frankly, I viewed the bat flying right approximately my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's young celebrity scuttled out of the way into repulsive area as the bat skipped behind third foundation, as well as it took him a second to regroup. But the play wasn't lifeless, and catcher Austin Wells made a quick throw to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez before he might respond to the bag.Rodru00edguez claimed he believed the play mored than due to the fact that the bat went soaring." After I found the baseball bat I thought it was actually going to be actually a dead play, and then they were visiting pick up the bat and I was actually mosting likely to return to 3rd," Rodru00edguez said. "I fled and also turned my spine to the field as well as I listened to [3rd bottom trainer] Manny [Acta] yelling, 'Get back to 3rd.' That's when I got back to third." Frankly, at that moment I had not been truly thinking of the game, just making an effort to escape the baseball bat coming at me. That's what took place. That was actually a very first for me, for sure." Hamilton struck out Justin Turner to end it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's blunder happened a night after Winner Robles made the suspicious selection to try taking home in the 1st inning against Nyc while Turner went to home plate with a 3-0 matter and also the manners loaded. Robles was out and the Yankees spun to an easy victory.This loss was extra discouraging for Seat as both Houston and also Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, indicating the Mariners skipped a possibility to compose needed to have ground in the AL West as well as wild-card nationalities. Seat is five video games back of first-place Houston in the department and 3 responsible for Minnesota for the final AL wild-card spot." It all happened fast and also again, simply very reactionary," Wilson pointed out. "I assume our experts will all hop out of the way. Yet simply unlucky it ended up in this way.".