.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff odds slipping away, the Seat Mariners discovered an uncomfortable brand new method to lose.A zooming baseball bat. A momentary mind blunder. And a strange double play." I don't think I have actually ever before viewed that before in an activity. Merely a weird scenario," Seat supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the Nyc Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, yet it was exactly how the bottom of the 10th participated in out that will be remembered in Mariners tradition as yet another section in a period that has gone awry.With joggers at the corners, Julio Rodru00edguez was picked off 3rd foundation after evading a flying bat that slipped out of the palms of Randy Arozarena when he struck out moving." I've asked a handful of people and all of all of them mentioned, 'I've certainly never viewed that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle routed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th state-of-the-art Rodru00edguez, the automated distance runner, coming from keystone to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and his baseball bat went sailing out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Frankly, I observed the bat piloting right as much as my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful celebrity scuttled out of the way in to foul area as the baseball bat skipped behind 3rd base, as well as it took him a minute to regroup. But the play wasn't lifeless, and catcher Austin Wells created a simple throw to third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez prior to he might get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez stated he presumed the play was over since the bat went flying." After I found the baseball bat I believed it was heading to be a dead play, and after that they were actually heading to pick up the bat and I was visiting go back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez claimed. "I escaped and transformed my spine to the field and I listened to [3rd foundation coach] Manny [Acta] yelling, 'Respond to 3rd.' That's when I returned to 3rd." Truthfully, then I had not been really considering the video game, merely trying to get away from the baseball bat coming with me. That's what took place. That was an initial for me, for certain." Hamilton struck out Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's oversight came an evening after Winner Robles made the questionable decision to make an effort taking house in the first inning versus Nyc while Turner was at the plate with a 3-0 matter as well as the bases loaded. Robles was actually out as well as the Yankees rolled to an easy victory.This defeat was actually much more discouraging for Seat as both Houston as well as Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, suggesting the Mariners missed out on an odds to comprise needed ground in the AL West as well as wild-card races. Seattle is actually 5 activities rear of first-place Houston in the branch and also three behind Minnesota for the last AL wild-card place." Everything took place quickly and once again, just really reactionary," Wilson stated. "I presume our team would certainly all leap off the beaten track. Yet only unlucky it found yourself that way.".