.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff odds escaping, the Seat Mariners located an unpleasant brand-new technique to lose.A speeding bat. A short-lived memory lapse. And a peculiar dual play." I do not think I have actually ever observed that just before in a game. Merely a weird circumstance," Seat manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the Nyc Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, but it was actually how all-time low of the 10th played out that are going to be always remembered in Mariners lore as one more chapter in a time that has actually gone awry.With runners at the corners, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually shot 3rd base after evading a soaring baseball bat that unclothed the palms of Randy Arozarena when he struck out moving." I have actually talked to a few men and all of them pointed out, 'I have actually never seen that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle routed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff single in the 10th state-of-the-art Rodru00edguez, the automatic distance runner, from keystone to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and also his bat went cruising out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Honestly, I observed the baseball bat flying right as much as my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's young celebrity scampered off the beaten track right into nasty region as the baseball bat jumped behind 3rd bottom, and also it took him an instant to collect yourself. However the play wasn't dead, as well as catcher Austin Wells made a fast throw to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez before he can return to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he believed the play was over since the baseball bat went soaring." After I viewed the bat I assumed it was actually mosting likely to be a dead play, and afterwards they were going to grab the bat and I was mosting likely to go back to third," Rodru00edguez said. "I escaped and turned my back to the field as well as I heard [3rd foundation coach] Manny [Acta] screaming, 'Respond to third.' That's when I responded to 3rd." Honestly, at that moment I had not been truly thinking of the game, merely trying to avoid the bat coming at me. That's what happened. That was actually a very first for me, without a doubt." Hamilton set out Justin Turner to end it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's blunder came a night after Winner Robles created the suspicious decision to try taking house in the 1st inning against Nyc while Turner was at home plate with a 3-0 matter and also the bases packed. Robles was actually out and the Yankees rolled to an effortless victory.This defeat was actually even more irritating for Seat as each Houston and Minnesota lost earlier Wednesday, indicating the Mariners missed a possibility to make up needed ground in the AL West and wild-card races. Seat is actually five video games rear of first-place Houston in the division as well as three responsible for Minnesota for the final AL wild-card location." It all occurred quickly as well as once again, simply incredibly reactionary," Wilson stated. "I think our company would certainly all leap out of the way. However merely unfavorable it ended up this way.".