.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff odds slipping away, the Seattle Mariners found a distressing brand-new method to lose.A flying bat. A temporary mind breach. And also an unusual double play." I don't assume I've ever before viewed that prior to in an activity. Merely a strange circumstance," Seat supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the The big apple Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, however it was exactly how the bottom of the 10th played out that will certainly be always remembered in Mariners folklore as another section in a season that has gone awry.With runners at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was picked off third bottom after evading a soaring baseball bat that unclothed the palms of Randy Arozarena when he started out moving." I've asked a couple of guys and all of all of them pointed out, 'I've never ever viewed that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff single in the 10th innovative Rodru00edguez, the automated jogger, from second base to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, as well as his bat went setting sail away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Truthfully, I observed the baseball bat taking flight right approximately my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's younger celebrity scampered out of the way in to foul area as the baseball bat skipped responsible for 3rd foundation, and it took him a minute to regroup. Yet the play wasn't lifeless, and catcher Austin Wells made a quick toss to third baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez just before he could get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez stated he assumed the play ended due to the fact that the bat went soaring." After I observed the bat I assumed it was visiting be a dead play, and then they were heading to grab the baseball bat as well as I was mosting likely to return to third," Rodru00edguez claimed. "I got out and switched my back to the field and I heard [3rd foundation trainer] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Get back to 3rd.' That is actually when I responded to 3rd." Truthfully, then I had not been actually thinking about the activity, only making an effort to escape the bat coming with me. That's what took place. That was an initial for me, for certain." Hamilton headed Justin Turner to end it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's error happened an evening after Winner Robles created the dubious selection to make an effort stealing house in the 1st inning versus The big apple while Turner went to home plate with a 3-0 matter as well as the bases packed. Robles was out and the Yankees rolled to a quick and easy victory.This loss was actually much more frustrating for Seattle as each Houston as well as Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, indicating the Mariners missed a chance to comprise needed to have ground in the AL West and wild-card ethnicities. Seat is actually 5 games rear of first-place Houston in the department as well as three responsible for Minnesota for the ultimate AL wild-card area." All of it occurred quick as well as once more, only really reactionary," Wilson claimed. "I think our company would certainly all leap out of the way. But merely unfavorable it found yourself this way.".