.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff odds slipping away, the Seat Mariners found an uncomfortable brand-new means to lose.A flying bat. A short-term moment . And a strange dual play." I don't presume I have actually ever seen that prior to in an activity. Just a peculiar situation," Seattle supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the New york city Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, but it was how all-time low of the 10th played out that will certainly be always remembered in Mariners tradition as another chapter in a period that has actually gone awry.With distance runners at the edges, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually shot 3rd bottom after dodging a soaring baseball bat that slipped out of the hands of Randy Arozarena when he began moving." I have actually asked a couple of individuals and all of all of them claimed, 'I've never ever viewed that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle tracked 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff singular in the 10th sophisticated Rodru00edguez, the automated jogger, from keystone to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and also his bat went sailing out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." In all honesty, I observed the baseball bat flying right up to my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful celebrity scampered off the beaten track in to filthy area as the bat jumped responsible for third bottom, and also it took him a second to regroup. However the play wasn't lifeless, as well as catcher Austin Wells made a fast toss to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez just before he might get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez stated he presumed the play mored than considering that the baseball bat went soaring." After I viewed the baseball bat I believed it was visiting be a dead play, and then they were actually visiting pick up the baseball bat and also I was heading to go back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez pointed out. "I escaped and also switched my spine to the area and I heard [3rd base trainer] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Return to 3rd.' That's when I responded to third." In all honesty, at that moment I had not been definitely thinking of the activity, only making an effort to escape the baseball bat coming at me. That's what happened. That was actually a 1st for me, without a doubt." Hamilton began Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's oversight happened a night after Victor Robles made the dubious decision to attempt swiping home in the first inning against Nyc while Turner went to home plate along with a 3-0 matter as well as the manners filled. Robles was actually out and the Yankees spun to an effortless victory.This loss was extra irritating for Seat as both Houston and Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, implying the Mariners missed a chance to comprise required ground in the AL West and wild-card nationalities. Seat is actually 5 video games back of first-place Houston in the department and 3 behind Minnesota for the final AL wild-card place." All of it happened swiftly as well as again, simply very reactionary," Wilson stated. "I believe our team will all jump out of the way. Yet only unfortunate it wound up that way.".