.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff chances departing, the Seattle Mariners located a painful new means to lose.A speeding bat. A brief mind breach. And also a peculiar double play." I don't think I have actually ever found that prior to in a video game. Merely an unusual circumstance," Seattle manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the The big apple Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, but it was actually how the bottom of the 10th participated in out that are going to be born in mind in Mariners folklore as one more section in a period that has actually gone awry.With distance runners at the corners, Julio Rodru00edguez was shot 3rd bottom after evading a flying bat that slipped out of the palms of Randy Arozarena when he began swinging." I have actually inquired a few individuals plus all of them pointed out, 'I've never observed that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff singular in the 10th advanced Rodru00edguez, the automated runner, coming from second base to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, as well as his baseball bat went setting sail away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Truthfully, I found the baseball bat flighting right approximately my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's young star scampered off the beaten track into foul region as the baseball bat bounded responsible for third foundation, and it took him a second to regroup. Yet the play wasn't lifeless, and also catcher Austin Wells made a fast toss to 3rd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez prior to he could return to the bag.Rodru00edguez said he believed the play ended since the bat went soaring." After I found the bat I thought it was actually going to be actually a lifeless play, and after that they were heading to pick up the baseball bat and I was actually going to go back to third," Rodru00edguez mentioned. "I fled and switched my back to the field and also I listened to [third bottom train] Manny [Acta] yelling, 'Return to third.' That is actually when I responded to third." Frankly, then I wasn't really considering the activity, just making an effort to get away from the baseball bat coming with me. That's what occurred. That was actually a first for me, for sure." Hamilton started out Justin Turner to finish it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's error happened an evening after Winner Robles made the questionable selection to attempt swiping house in the first inning against New York while Turner was at home plate with a 3-0 matter and the manners filled. Robles was out as well as the Yankees spun to an effortless victory.This loss was actually extra annoying for Seattle as both Houston as well as Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, indicating the Mariners missed out on an odds to compose needed to have ground in the AL West and also wild-card races. Seattle is five video games back of first-place Houston in the department as well as three responsible for Minnesota for the last AL wild-card place." All of it occurred quickly as well as once again, merely quite reactionary," Wilson said. "I assume our company will all dive out of the way. But merely regrettable it wound up by doing this.".