.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff possibilities escaping, the Seat Mariners found an agonizing brand-new method to lose.A zooming baseball bat. A brief mind oversight. And also a strange double play." I don't presume I've ever before found that just before in an activity. Merely a peculiar circumstance," Seat manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the New York Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, yet it was how all-time low of the 10th participated in out that will certainly be actually always remembered in Mariners folklore as an additional section in a time that has gone awry.With joggers at the corners, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually picked off third bottom after evading a flying bat that slipped out of the hands of Randy Arozarena when he headed swinging." I have actually inquired a couple of individuals and all of them said, 'I have actually never ever seen that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle tracked 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th state-of-the-art Rodru00edguez, the automated distance runner, from keystone to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, as well as his baseball bat went cruising away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." In all honesty, I viewed the bat taking flight right as much as my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful superstar scampered off the beaten track in to filthy region as the bat bounded behind third bottom, and also it took him an instant to regroup. However the play had not been dead, and also catcher Austin Wells created a fast toss to 3rd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez just before he could possibly get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez said he assumed the play ended because the bat went flying." After I found the baseball bat I presumed it was actually heading to be actually a dead play, and after that they were going to pick up the baseball bat and I was heading to go back to third," Rodru00edguez stated. "I got away as well as switched my spine to the industry as well as I listened to [3rd bottom trainer] Manny [Acta] screaming, 'Get back to third.' That is actually when I returned to third." Frankly, at that moment I wasn't definitely considering the activity, simply making an effort to get away from the bat coming with me. That's what took place. That was a first for me, for sure." Hamilton began Justin Turner to end it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's blunder came an evening after Winner Robles created the dubious selection to make an effort swiping home in the very first inning versus Nyc while Turner was at home plate with a 3-0 count and the bases loaded. Robles was actually out and also the Yankees spun to a quick and easy victory.This defeat was extra irritating for Seattle as both Houston and also Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, suggesting the Mariners skipped an odds to compose needed ground in the AL West as well as wild-card ethnicities. Seattle is actually five games rear of first-place Houston in the division as well as three behind Minnesota for the last AL wild-card place." Everything took place fast and also again, simply extremely reactionary," Wilson mentioned. "I believe our company 'd all hop out of the way. But just regrettable it wound up by doing this.".