.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff opportunities escaping, the Seat Mariners discovered an agonizing brand-new way to lose.A flying baseball bat. A temporary mind blunder. And also a strange double play." I do not presume I've ever viewed that prior to in an activity. Merely a weird circumstance," Seattle manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the The big apple Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, however it was actually how the bottom of the 10th participated in out that will definitely be actually remembered in Mariners tradition as another chapter in a season that has gone awry.With distance runners at the corners, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually picked off 3rd bottom after evading a soaring baseball bat that unclothed the hands of Randy Arozarena when he headed swinging." I've talked to a handful of guys and all of all of them pointed out, 'I've never ever found that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle tracked 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th innovative Rodru00edguez, the automated jogger, from keystone to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, as well as his baseball bat went cruising away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Truthfully, I saw the baseball bat flying right up to my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful star scampered off the beaten track in to foul territory as the baseball bat jumped responsible for 3rd bottom, and also it took him a minute to regroup. But the play wasn't lifeless, and catcher Austin Wells made a simple throw to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez before he could possibly get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez claimed he believed the play ended considering that the baseball bat went flying." After I saw the bat I thought it was mosting likely to be a lifeless play, and afterwards they were visiting get the bat and I was actually heading to get back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez mentioned. "I got out as well as turned my spine to the field and I heard [third bottom instructor] Manny [Acta] yelling, 'Respond to 3rd.' That is actually when I responded to third." In all honesty, then I had not been actually thinking about the video game, just making an effort to avoid the baseball bat coming with me. That's what took place. That was actually a 1st for me, for sure." Hamilton set out Justin Turner to end it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's blunder came an evening after Victor Robles created the suspicious selection to make an effort stealing home in the very first inning against Nyc while Turner went to the plate along with a 3-0 matter as well as the manners filled. Robles was out and also the Yankees rolled to an easy victory.This loss was much more annoying for Seat as each Houston and Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, meaning the Mariners skipped an odds to comprise required ground in the AL West and also wild-card nationalities. Seat is five games rear of first-place Houston in the division and 3 responsible for Minnesota for the final AL wild-card location." All of it occurred swiftly and once again, merely quite reactionary," Wilson said. "I presume our team will all dive off the beaten track. Yet merely unfavorable it found yourself by doing this.".