.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff odds escaping, the Seattle Mariners located a distressing brand new method to lose.A zooming bat. A short-term memory blunder. And also a peculiar dual play." I don't assume I have actually ever before observed that prior to in an activity. Merely a strange situation," Seattle manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the The big apple Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, yet it was exactly how all-time low of the 10th played out that will be actually kept in mind in Mariners tradition as another chapter in a time that has gone awry.With distance runners at the edges, Julio Rodru00edguez was picked off 3rd base after dodging a flying baseball bat that unclothed the hands of Randy Arozarena when he began moving." I've talked to a couple of men and all of all of them claimed, 'I've certainly never observed that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th sophisticated Rodru00edguez, the automatic distance runner, coming from second base to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, as well as his baseball bat went voyaging away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Honestly, I found the bat taking flight right as much as my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's younger celebrity scuttled out of the way right into repulsive region as the bat skipped behind 3rd foundation, as well as it took him a moment to collect yourself. Yet the play had not been lifeless, and catcher Austin Wells created a quick toss to third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez just before he can get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he assumed the play ended since the bat went soaring." After I observed the bat I assumed it was actually visiting be a lifeless play, and after that they were going to get the baseball bat and also I was visiting go back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez stated. "I got away and switched my spine to the industry and I heard [third foundation instructor] Manny [Acta] yelling, 'Respond to 3rd.' That's when I got back to third." Truthfully, at that moment I had not been actually dealing with the video game, just trying to escape the baseball bat coming with me. That's what took place. That was actually a first for me, for sure." Hamilton headed Justin Turner to end it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's oversight happened an evening after Winner Robles made the dubious selection to try stealing house in the first inning versus The big apple while Turner went to the plate with a 3-0 matter and the manners loaded. Robles was out and the Yankees spun to a simple victory.This defeat was actually a lot more discouraging for Seat as both Houston and Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, meaning the Mariners skipped a chance to make up needed ground in the AL West as well as wild-card nationalities. Seat is 5 games rear of first-place Houston in the branch and 3 responsible for Minnesota for the final AL wild-card place." It all took place quickly and once more, simply really reactionary," Wilson said. "I think we 'd all leap off the beaten track. Yet simply unfavorable it ended up that way.".