.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff chances escaping, the Seat Mariners discovered an agonizing brand new way to lose.A speeding bat. A brief memory blunder. And also a bizarre double play." I don't believe I have actually ever observed that prior to in a video game. Merely an odd circumstance," Seat manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the New york city Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, however it was exactly how the bottom of the 10th participated in out that will certainly be don't forgotten in Mariners tradition as yet another phase in a period that has gone awry.With runners at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually picked off third bottom after dodging a flying bat that unclothed the hands of Randy Arozarena when he headed swinging." I have actually asked a handful of people and all of them stated, 'I've never ever observed that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle tracked 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff single in the 10th innovative Rodru00edguez, the automated jogger, coming from keystone to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, and his bat went cruising out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." In all honesty, I observed the baseball bat flying right around my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's young star scampered out of the way in to repulsive region as the baseball bat bounded behind 3rd foundation, and also it took him a minute to regroup. Yet the play wasn't dead, as well as catcher Austin Wells made an easy throw to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez prior to he might get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez said he believed the play was over given that the bat went soaring." After I found the bat I believed it was actually visiting be a lifeless play, and then they were going to get the baseball bat and I was actually visiting return to third," Rodru00edguez claimed. "I got away as well as turned my spine to the field as well as I listened to [third bottom instructor] Manny [Acta] shouting, 'Return to 3rd.' That's when I returned to 3rd." Honestly, at that moment I wasn't really considering the activity, just trying to escape the bat coming with me. That's what occurred. That was actually an initial for me, for sure." Hamilton set out Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's error happened a night after Victor Robles created the doubtful choice to try taking house in the initial inning against New York while Turner went to home plate with a 3-0 count and the manners filled. Robles was actually out and the Yankees spun to a very easy victory.This loss was much more frustrating for Seattle as each Houston and Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, indicating the Mariners overlooked an opportunity to comprise required ground in the AL West and also wild-card nationalities. Seat is 5 games back of first-place Houston in the department and also 3 responsible for Minnesota for the last AL wild-card area." It all took place fast and also again, just really reactionary," Wilson claimed. "I think we will all jump off the beaten track. But simply unfavorable it wound up that way.".