.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff odds escaping, the Seat Mariners discovered a distressing new way to lose.A zooming baseball bat. A temporary memory lapse. As well as a peculiar dual play." I do not presume I have actually ever observed that prior to in a video game. Only a peculiar circumstance," Seattle manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the The big apple Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, however it was just how all-time low of the 10th participated in out that will definitely be actually born in mind in Mariners lore as another phase in a period that has gone awry.With joggers at the edges, Julio Rodru00edguez was shot third base after dodging a soaring bat that slipped out of the hands of Randy Arozarena when he began swinging." I've inquired a couple of individuals and all of them said, 'I have actually never ever viewed that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle tracked 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff single in the 10th state-of-the-art Rodru00edguez, the automated runner, coming from keystone to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and his bat went sailing out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Frankly, I saw the bat flying right around my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's young celebrity scampered out of the way in to repulsive territory as the bat bounded responsible for third foundation, and also it took him an instant to regroup. But the play wasn't dead, and catcher Austin Wells made a fast throw to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez before he might return to the bag.Rodru00edguez claimed he presumed the play mored than since the bat went soaring." After I observed the baseball bat I assumed it was heading to be a dead play, and then they were visiting get the bat and also I was actually visiting go back to third," Rodru00edguez mentioned. "I escaped and switched my back to the area and I listened to [third base trainer] Manny [Acta] screaming, 'Get back to third.' That is actually when I responded to third." In all honesty, at that moment I wasn't actually thinking about the activity, just trying to avoid the baseball bat coming with me. That's what happened. That was actually a first for me, for certain." Hamilton struck out Justin Turner to end it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's blunder happened a night after Victor Robles created the doubtful decision to try swiping home in the first inning against New york city while Turner went to the plate along with a 3-0 matter and the manners packed. Robles was out and the Yankees spun to a simple victory.This defeat was even more discouraging for Seattle as each Houston as well as Minnesota lost earlier Wednesday, indicating the Mariners missed an opportunity to comprise needed ground in the AL West and also wild-card nationalities. Seat is 5 activities back of first-place Houston in the branch as well as three responsible for Minnesota for the last AL wild-card location." It all happened fast and again, just quite reactionary," Wilson mentioned. "I believe we 'd all leap off the beaten track. Yet simply unlucky it ended up in this way.".