.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff odds slipping away, the Seat Mariners found a painful new method to lose.A speeding baseball bat. A brief moment blunder. And an unusual double play." I don't presume I've ever before observed that prior to in a game. Just a weird condition," Seat supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the Nyc Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, yet it was actually how all-time low of the 10th played out that will certainly be actually kept in mind in Mariners folklore as yet another chapter in a period that has actually gone awry.With distance runners at the edges, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually shot third foundation after dodging a flying bat that slipped out of the palms of Randy Arozarena when he started out swinging." I have actually asked a few fellas and all of all of them said, 'I've never viewed that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff singular in the 10th state-of-the-art Rodru00edguez, the automated runner, from keystone to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, as well as his baseball bat went sailing away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Truthfully, I viewed the bat piloting right as much as my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's young superstar scuttled out of the way right into filthy area as the baseball bat bounded behind third base, as well as it took him a second to regroup. Yet the play had not been dead, and also catcher Austin Wells made a quick throw to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez just before he could possibly return to the bag.Rodru00edguez claimed he believed the play ended since the baseball bat went soaring." After I viewed the baseball bat I presumed it was heading to be a dead play, and afterwards they were actually going to pick up the bat and I was visiting go back to third," Rodru00edguez stated. "I fled and switched my spine to the field and also I heard [third bottom train] Manny [Acta] screaming, 'Return to third.' That's when I got back to 3rd." In all honesty, at that moment I had not been truly considering the video game, merely trying to get away from the bat coming at me. That's what took place. That was an initial for me, for certain." Hamilton struck out Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's error came an evening after Victor Robles made the suspicious choice to try swiping house in the 1st inning against Nyc while Turner was at home plate with a 3-0 matter as well as the bases filled. Robles was actually out and also the Yankees rolled to a very easy victory.This defeat was actually much more aggravating for Seat as both Houston and Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, indicating the Mariners overlooked an opportunity to compose needed to have ground in the AL West as well as wild-card races. Seat is actually 5 games back of first-place Houston in the division and also three responsible for Minnesota for the ultimate AL wild-card place." Everything took place swiftly as well as again, simply incredibly reactionary," Wilson pointed out. "I assume our team 'd all hop out of the way. However merely unfortunate it ended up by doing this.".