.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff odds slipping away, the Seat Mariners found an agonizing new way to lose.A flying baseball bat. A short-term memory breach. And also a bizarre dual play." I don't believe I've ever before seen that prior to in a video game. Merely an odd situation," Seat supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the New york city Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, but it was how the bottom of the 10th played out that will be always remembered in Mariners folklore as yet another section in a period that has actually gone awry.With joggers at the corners, Julio Rodru00edguez was shot 3rd base after dodging a flying bat that unclothed the hands of Randy Arozarena when he headed swinging." I've asked a handful of individuals and all of them claimed, 'I've never ever viewed that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th innovative Rodru00edguez, the automated runner, coming from keystone to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and his baseball bat went sailing away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Truthfully, I found the baseball bat flying right approximately my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's younger star scuttled out of the way in to filthy territory as the bat bounded responsible for 3rd bottom, and it took him an instant to collect yourself. But the play wasn't dead, and also catcher Austin Wells made an easy toss to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez prior to he can return to the bag.Rodru00edguez claimed he thought the play mored than considering that the bat went soaring." After I found the baseball bat I believed it was actually mosting likely to be actually a lifeless play, and afterwards they were actually visiting pick up the baseball bat as well as I was actually visiting go back to third," Rodru00edguez said. "I got out as well as transformed my spine to the field and also I heard [third base trainer] Manny [Acta] shouting, 'Respond to third.' That is actually when I got back to third." Frankly, then I wasn't truly dealing with the activity, just attempting to get away from the baseball bat coming at me. That's what happened. That was actually an initial for me, for certain." Hamilton set out Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's error happened an evening after Winner Robles made the doubtful choice to make an effort taking house in the very first inning versus New york city while Turner was at home plate along with a 3-0 matter as well as the bases filled. Robles was actually out and also the Yankees spun to a quick and easy victory.This defeat was a lot more irritating for Seattle as both Houston as well as Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, suggesting the Mariners skipped a chance to compose required ground in the AL West as well as wild-card races. Seat is 5 activities rear of first-place Houston in the branch and three responsible for Minnesota for the final AL wild-card place." Everything took place quick as well as once more, just quite reactionary," Wilson claimed. "I believe we would certainly all dive off the beaten track. Yet simply unfortunate it wound up this way.".