.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff chances departing, the Seattle Mariners located an unpleasant brand new method to lose.A speeding baseball bat. A momentary mind breach. And also a peculiar double play." I do not presume I've ever viewed that just before in an activity. Just a strange circumstance," Seat supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the New York Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, yet it was actually exactly how all-time low of the 10th played out that will be actually born in mind in Mariners tradition as yet another section in a season that has actually gone awry.With distance runners at the edges, Julio Rodru00edguez was picked off third foundation after evading a flying baseball bat that slipped out of the palms of Randy Arozarena when he headed swinging." I've talked to a couple of men plus all of all of them claimed, 'I've certainly never observed that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle routed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th innovative Rodru00edguez, the automated runner, coming from second base to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, and also his bat went cruising away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Truthfully, I observed the bat flying right around my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful superstar scuttled off the beaten track in to filthy region as the baseball bat skipped behind third foundation, as well as it took him a moment to regroup. But the play had not been dead, as well as catcher Austin Wells made a simple toss to third baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez before he could get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez said he assumed the play ended considering that the baseball bat went flying." After I found the baseball bat I assumed it was actually visiting be actually a dead play, and then they were heading to get the bat as well as I was mosting likely to get back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez claimed. "I escaped as well as turned my back to the area as well as I heard [third foundation trainer] Manny [Acta] shouting, 'Respond to third.' That's when I returned to 3rd." In all honesty, at that moment I wasn't actually considering the video game, simply attempting to get away from the baseball bat coming at me. That's what occurred. That was a very first for me, for certain." Hamilton began Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's mistake came an evening after Victor Robles created the suspicious selection to try stealing house in the very first inning against Nyc while Turner was at the plate with a 3-0 count and also the bases filled. Robles was actually out as well as the Yankees spun to a simple victory.This loss was much more irritating for Seat as each Houston and also Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, suggesting the Mariners skipped an odds to make up needed to have ground in the AL West as well as wild-card races. Seattle is five activities back of first-place Houston in the branch as well as three responsible for Minnesota for the ultimate AL wild-card location." All of it occurred fast as well as once more, just incredibly reactionary," Wilson stated. "I think our team 'd all jump out of the way. But merely unfavorable it wound up by doing this.".