.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff opportunities slipping away, the Seat Mariners found an unpleasant new way to lose.A zooming bat. A brief moment blunder. And also a bizarre dual play." I don't believe I have actually ever before observed that just before in a game. Simply a strange condition," 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 all-time low of the 10th participated in out that will certainly be actually kept in mind in Mariners tradition as one more phase in a season that has gone awry.With joggers at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was picked off third base after dodging a flying baseball bat that unclothed the palms of Randy Arozarena when he struck out swinging." I've asked a handful of men plus all of all of them said, 'I have actually certainly never found that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle tracked 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff single in the 10th sophisticated Rodru00edguez, the automatic distance runner, from keystone to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, as well as his baseball bat went setting sail out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Frankly, I observed the bat flighting right up to my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's younger celebrity scampered off the beaten track into foul region as the bat bounded responsible for third base, and also it took him a second to regroup. Yet the play wasn't lifeless, and also catcher Austin Wells made an easy throw to third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez before he might get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez said he thought the play mored than due to the fact that the baseball bat went flying." After I viewed the baseball bat I believed it was actually heading to be actually a dead play, and after that they were visiting grab the bat and also I was mosting likely to return to 3rd," Rodru00edguez claimed. "I fled as well as transformed my back to the industry as well as I listened to [3rd foundation trainer] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Respond to third.' That is actually when I returned to third." Honestly, at that moment I wasn't actually considering the game, only making an effort to avoid the baseball bat coming at me. That's what happened. That was actually a 1st for me, for certain." Hamilton set out Justin Turner to finish it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's error came an evening after Winner Robles created the suspicious choice to try swiping house in the first inning against New York while Turner went to the plate along with a 3-0 matter and also the bases filled. Robles was actually out and the Yankees rolled to a simple victory.This loss was more aggravating for Seat as both Houston and also Minnesota lost earlier Wednesday, indicating the Mariners missed an odds to make up needed ground in the AL West and also wild-card ethnicities. Seattle is actually five games rear of first-place Houston in the department as well as three responsible for Minnesota for the last AL wild-card spot." All of it happened swiftly and also once again, only really reactionary," Wilson stated. "I assume we 'd all hop out of the way. However merely unfavorable it ended up by doing this.".