.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff opportunities departing, the Seat Mariners located an unpleasant brand new way to lose.A zooming bat. A short-lived mind oversight. And a strange double play." I do not presume I've ever before observed that just before in a game. Just an odd situation," Seattle supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the Nyc Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, but it was how all-time low of the 10th participated in out that are going to be always remembered in Mariners folklore as yet another section in a period that has actually gone awry.With joggers at the edges, Julio Rodru00edguez was shot third foundation after evading a flying baseball bat that unclothed the palms of Randy Arozarena when he struck out swinging." I've talked to a couple of individuals and all of all of them claimed, 'I have actually never seen that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle tracked 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th sophisticated Rodru00edguez, the automatic jogger, from second base to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, and his bat went voyaging away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." In all honesty, I viewed the baseball bat flighting right up to my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's young star scampered out of the way into foul area as the baseball bat skipped responsible for 3rd bottom, and it took him a minute to regroup. Yet the play had not been dead, as well as catcher Austin Wells made a simple toss to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez before he can return to the bag.Rodru00edguez said he thought the play ended considering that the baseball bat went flying." After I saw the baseball bat I presumed it was actually heading to be a dead play, and after that they were actually heading to pick up the bat and I was visiting get back to third," Rodru00edguez pointed out. "I got away and also turned my back to the field and I heard [3rd base train] Manny [Acta] shouting, 'Return to 3rd.' That is actually when I responded to 3rd." Honestly, then I had not been actually thinking about the activity, merely making an effort to get away from the baseball bat coming at me. That's what occurred. That was actually a first for me, for certain." Hamilton struck out Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's error happened an evening after Winner Robles made the doubtful selection to make an effort taking home in the first inning versus Nyc while Turner was at the plate with a 3-0 matter as well as the manners packed. Robles was actually out and also the Yankees spun to an easy victory.This loss was even more discouraging for Seat as each Houston and Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, indicating the Mariners missed a chance to compose required ground in the AL West and wild-card races. Seat is actually 5 games back of first-place Houston in the department and 3 behind Minnesota for the final AL wild-card area." It all took place swiftly and also once again, just quite reactionary," Wilson stated. "I presume our experts 'd all hop out of the way. However merely unlucky it found yourself that way.".