.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff chances departing, the Seat Mariners found a very painful brand new method to lose.A speeding baseball bat. A momentary moment blunder. As well as a strange dual play." I don't think I've ever before found that prior to in a video game. Just an odd circumstance," Seat supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the New York Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, however it was just how the bottom of the 10th played out that will be actually remembered in Mariners folklore as an additional section in a time that has actually gone awry.With runners at the edges, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually shot 3rd base after evading a soaring bat that slipped out of the hands of Randy Arozarena when he started out swinging." I have actually talked to a couple of people plus all of them claimed, 'I have actually never seen that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle routed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff singular in the 10th state-of-the-art Rodru00edguez, the automatic distance runner, coming from second base to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, as well as his baseball bat went voyaging out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." In all honesty, I viewed the bat flying right as much as my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's young celebrity scuttled out of the way right into nasty territory as the baseball bat jumped behind 3rd foundation, and also it took him a moment to collect yourself. Yet the play wasn't dead, as well as catcher Austin Wells created an easy throw to 3rd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez just before he could return to the bag.Rodru00edguez claimed he believed the play was over because the baseball bat went flying." After I found the bat I believed it was visiting be a dead play, and after that they were heading to pick up the baseball bat as well as I was actually heading to get back to third," Rodru00edguez mentioned. "I fled and switched my spine to the area as well as I heard [third bottom trainer] Manny [Acta] screaming, 'Return to 3rd.' That's when I returned to third." Honestly, at that moment I had not been definitely considering the activity, just trying to escape the baseball bat coming with me. That's what took place. That was a first for me, for certain." Hamilton set out Justin Turner to end it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's error came a night after Winner Robles made the dubious choice to make an effort stealing house in the very first inning against The big apple while Turner went to home plate along with a 3-0 count and the manners filled. Robles was out as well as the Yankees spun to a very easy victory.This defeat was much more aggravating for Seat as each Houston and also Minnesota lost earlier Wednesday, meaning the Mariners missed out on an odds to make up needed ground in the AL West as well as wild-card nationalities. Seat is actually five video games back of first-place Houston in the department and also three responsible for Minnesota for the ultimate AL wild-card spot." Everything took place quick and also once more, merely extremely reactionary," Wilson claimed. "I think our experts 'd all hop off the beaten track. But merely unfortunate it found yourself this way.".