.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff odds escaping, the Seat Mariners located a very painful brand-new means to lose.A flying baseball bat. A short-term moment blunder. And also an unusual double play." I do not think I have actually ever observed that prior to in a game. Simply an unusual condition," Seattle supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the The big apple Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, however it was actually how all-time low of the 10th participated in out that are going to be born in mind in Mariners tradition as another phase in a period that has actually gone awry.With joggers at the corners, Julio Rodru00edguez was shot 3rd base after dodging a soaring bat that unclothed the hands of Randy Arozarena when he started out swinging." I have actually asked a handful of people and all of them pointed out, 'I have actually certainly never viewed that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle routed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff singular in the 10th advanced Rodru00edguez, the automatic jogger, from keystone to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and his baseball bat went setting sail out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." In all honesty, I observed the bat flighting right around my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful superstar scuttled off the beaten track in to nasty region as the bat skipped behind third base, and it took him a moment to collect yourself. However the play had not been dead, and also catcher Austin Wells created an easy throw to third baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez just before he might get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez stated he assumed the play mored than considering that the baseball bat went flying." After I saw the baseball bat I assumed it was actually heading to be actually a dead play, and afterwards they were mosting likely to grab the bat as well as I was actually going to get back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez pointed out. "I got out and also switched my spine to the area and also I heard [3rd bottom trainer] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Get back to 3rd.' That's when I got back to 3rd." Frankly, then I had not been actually thinking of the video game, merely attempting to escape the baseball bat coming with me. That's what took place. That was a first for me, without a doubt." Hamilton struck out Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's error happened a night after Winner Robles created the suspicious selection to try stealing house in the initial inning against Nyc while Turner went to the plate with a 3-0 count and also the manners filled. Robles was actually out and the Yankees spun to a simple victory.This defeat was actually a lot more annoying for Seattle as both Houston and Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, suggesting the Mariners missed an opportunity to make up needed ground in the AL West as well as wild-card ethnicities. Seattle is actually five games rear of first-place Houston in the department and 3 responsible for Minnesota for the last AL wild-card area." All of it occurred swiftly and also once more, just really reactionary," Wilson claimed. "I assume we would certainly all dive off the beaten track. However only unlucky it found yourself that way.".