.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff chances escaping, the Seat Mariners discovered an excruciating brand new way to lose.A speeding baseball bat. A momentary mind . And a peculiar dual play." I don't think I've ever before observed that just before in a video game. Just an odd scenario," Seat supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the The big apple Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, however it was how all-time low of the 10th participated in out that will be actually always remembered in Mariners tradition as an additional chapter in a period that has actually gone awry.With distance runners at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was shot third bottom after dodging a flying bat that slipped out of the hands of Randy Arozarena when he began swinging." I have actually talked to a couple of people and all of all of them mentioned, 'I have actually never ever viewed that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle routed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff single in the 10th innovative Rodru00edguez, the automatic distance runner, from keystone to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and also his bat went voyaging away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Truthfully, I found the baseball bat flighting right around my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful celebrity scampered off the beaten track right into filthy region as the baseball bat bounded responsible for 3rd base, and it took him an instant to collect yourself. Yet the play wasn't lifeless, and catcher Austin Wells created a fast toss to 3rd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez just before he can return to the bag.Rodru00edguez claimed he assumed the play ended due to the fact that the bat went flying." After I viewed the baseball bat I assumed it was mosting likely to be actually a dead play, and after that they were actually going to grab the baseball bat and I was actually visiting go back to third," Rodru00edguez mentioned. "I fled and turned my back to the area as well as I listened to [third base coach] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Get back to third.' That's when I returned to 3rd." Truthfully, then I wasn't definitely thinking about the game, just attempting to avoid the bat coming at me. That's what occurred. That was actually an initial for me, without a doubt." Hamilton set out Justin Turner to end it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's blunder happened an evening after Winner Robles made the dubious selection to attempt taking house in the very first inning against New york city while Turner was at home plate with a 3-0 count as well as the manners loaded. Robles was out and the Yankees spun to a simple victory.This defeat was actually more frustrating for Seat as both Houston and Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, suggesting the Mariners missed a chance to compose required ground in the AL West and wild-card ethnicities. Seattle is actually five video games rear of first-place Houston in the branch as well as 3 behind Minnesota for the last AL wild-card spot." Everything took place fast as well as again, just really reactionary," Wilson stated. "I believe our company 'd all dive off the beaten track. Yet simply unfavorable it ended up in this way.".