.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff possibilities escaping, the Seat Mariners found an uncomfortable new method to lose.A flying bat. A brief mind breach. As well as a peculiar double play." I do not assume I have actually ever before observed that before in an activity. Just a strange 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, but it was exactly how the bottom of the 10th participated in out that are going to be actually kept in mind in Mariners tradition as an additional chapter in a season that has actually gone awry.With runners at the edges, Julio Rodru00edguez was shot third base after evading a soaring baseball bat that slipped out of the palms of Randy Arozarena when he began swinging." I've inquired a couple of 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 advanced Rodru00edguez, the automatic runner, coming from keystone to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and his baseball bat went cruising away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Honestly, I saw the bat taking flight right around my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's young star scampered out of the way into nasty territory as the bat jumped responsible for 3rd bottom, and also it took him a moment to collect yourself. But the play had not been lifeless, and catcher Austin Wells created a quick toss to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez prior to he can return to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he thought the play mored than because the bat went soaring." After I viewed the bat I assumed it was heading to be a dead play, and then they were mosting likely to pick up the baseball bat and I was visiting get back to third," Rodru00edguez said. "I got out as well as transformed my back to the field and I listened to [third foundation trainer] Manny [Acta] yelling, 'Get back to third.' That's when I returned to 3rd." Truthfully, at that moment I wasn't definitely thinking of the video game, simply making an effort to get away from the bat coming at me. That's what occurred. That was a 1st for me, for certain." Hamilton began Justin Turner to finish it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's oversight came a night after Winner Robles created the doubtful decision to try taking house in the 1st inning versus The big apple while Turner went to home plate with a 3-0 matter and the bases filled. Robles was out and the Yankees spun to a very easy victory.This loss was actually extra aggravating for Seat as both Houston and also Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, implying the Mariners missed a chance to make up needed ground in the AL West and wild-card races. Seat is five activities back of first-place Houston in the branch and 3 behind Minnesota for the final AL wild-card place." All of it happened quick as well as once again, merely incredibly reactionary," Wilson claimed. "I presume our experts would certainly all dive out of the way. Yet merely unfavorable it ended up this way.".