.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff odds escaping, the Seat Mariners located a distressing brand new method to lose.A zooming baseball bat. A temporary mind blunder. As well as a peculiar double play." I don't assume I've ever observed that just before in an activity. Just an odd situation," Seattle supervisor 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 played out that will certainly be don't forgotten in Mariners lore as another section in a time that has actually gone awry.With joggers at the edges, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually shot third bottom after evading a soaring bat that unclothed the palms of Randy Arozarena when he set out moving." I have actually talked to a couple of individuals and all of all of them stated, 'I have actually certainly never seen that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle routed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff single in the 10th state-of-the-art Rodru00edguez, the automated jogger, coming from keystone to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and also his bat went voyaging away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Frankly, I viewed the baseball bat piloting right approximately my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's young celebrity scuttled out of the way into filthy territory as the bat skipped behind 3rd foundation, and it took him a second to regroup. However the play wasn't lifeless, and catcher Austin Wells made an easy toss to third baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez just before he might get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez claimed he thought the play was over given that the baseball bat went flying." After I observed the bat I thought it was mosting likely to be a dead play, and then they were actually going to grab the baseball bat and I was actually visiting get back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez pointed out. "I escaped and switched my back to the field and also I listened to [third base train] Manny [Acta] shouting, 'Return to 3rd.' That is actually when I returned to 3rd." In all honesty, then I wasn't actually dealing with the game, simply trying to avoid the baseball bat coming with me. That's what occurred. That was a first for me, for sure." Hamilton headed Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's error came an evening after Victor Robles created the dubious decision to try swiping home in the very first inning versus New York while Turner went to home plate along with a 3-0 matter as well as the bases loaded. Robles was actually out and also the Yankees rolled to a simple victory.This defeat was actually even more annoying for Seattle as each Houston and Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, implying the Mariners missed out on a chance to compose needed to have ground in the AL West and wild-card nationalities. Seattle is actually 5 games rear of first-place Houston in the department as well as 3 responsible for Minnesota for the last AL wild-card spot." It all occurred quick and again, simply quite reactionary," Wilson stated. "I think our experts will all jump out of the way. Yet only unfavorable it ended up by doing this.".