.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff opportunities slipping away, the Seat Mariners found an agonizing brand new means to lose.A flying bat. A short-term memory lapse. As well as a bizarre double play." I do not assume I've ever before seen that just before in a game. Just an unusual circumstance," Seat manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the New York Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, but it was actually how all-time low of the 10th played out that are going to be actually always remembered in Mariners lore as an additional section in a period that has gone awry.With distance runners at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was picked off 3rd foundation after evading a flying bat that slipped out of the palms of Randy Arozarena when he started out swinging." I have actually asked a couple of men and all of them mentioned, 'I have actually never ever seen that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle routed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th enhanced Rodru00edguez, the automated runner, from keystone to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena 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 scampered off the beaten track into foul area as the baseball bat bounded responsible for third bottom, as well as it took him a minute to regroup. Yet the play wasn't lifeless, and also catcher Austin Wells made a quick throw to third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez just before he might respond to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he assumed the play was over given that the bat went flying." After I saw the baseball bat I thought it was actually heading to be actually a dead play, and after that they were actually going to grab the baseball bat as well as I was heading to go back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez claimed. "I escaped and also switched my back to the area as well as I listened to [third foundation trainer] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Get back to third.' That's when I returned to 3rd." Honestly, at that moment I wasn't truly considering the activity, simply trying to escape the baseball bat coming at me. That's what occurred. That was a 1st for me, without a doubt." Hamilton started out Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's mistake happened a night after Winner Robles made the doubtful selection to attempt stealing house in the very first inning against Nyc while Turner was at the plate with a 3-0 matter and the bases loaded. Robles was actually out as well as the Yankees rolled to a very easy victory.This loss was more annoying for Seat as both Houston as well as Minnesota lost earlier Wednesday, meaning the Mariners skipped an odds to comprise required ground in the AL West and wild-card races. Seat is 5 video games back of first-place Houston in the branch and also 3 behind Minnesota for the final AL wild-card area." All of it happened fast as well as once again, simply extremely reactionary," Wilson claimed. "I assume our team 'd all dive out of the way. However just unfortunate it found yourself by doing this.".