.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff chances escaping, the Seat Mariners located a painful brand new technique to lose.A flying baseball bat. A brief moment blunder. As well as an unusual dual play." I don't presume I've ever seen that just before in a video game. Only a weird situation," Seat supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the New York Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, but it was just how all-time low of the 10th played out that will certainly be actually don't forgotten in Mariners folklore as another section in a period that has actually gone awry.With distance runners at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually shot third bottom after dodging a soaring bat that unclothed the hands of Randy Arozarena when he started out moving." I've asked a couple of fellas and all of all of them mentioned, 'I have actually never found that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle tracked 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff single in the 10th sophisticated Rodru00edguez, the automatic distance runner, from keystone to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and his baseball bat went cruising out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Frankly, I found the baseball bat taking flight right as much as my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's younger star scampered off the beaten track right into filthy area as the bat jumped behind 3rd foundation, and also it took him a moment to regroup. However the play wasn't lifeless, as well as catcher Austin Wells made an easy throw to third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez prior to he might respond to the bag.Rodru00edguez claimed he assumed the play ended since the baseball bat went flying." After I saw the baseball bat I believed it was visiting be actually a dead play, and then they were going to pick up the bat and I was actually mosting likely to get back to third," Rodru00edguez mentioned. "I fled and also transformed my spine to the industry and also I heard [3rd base instructor] Manny [Acta] shouting, 'Respond to third.' That's when I returned to third." In all honesty, at that moment I wasn't actually dealing with the video game, merely trying to avoid the baseball bat coming with me. That's what took place. That was actually a very first for me, for sure." Hamilton started out Justin Turner to finish it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's error came an evening after Victor Robles created the questionable selection to attempt taking home in the initial inning against Nyc while Turner went to the plate along with a 3-0 matter and the bases filled. Robles was actually out and also the Yankees spun to an easy victory.This loss was actually even more frustrating for Seat as each Houston and Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, indicating the Mariners missed a possibility to compose needed ground in the AL West and wild-card nationalities. Seat is five activities back of first-place Houston in the division and 3 responsible for Minnesota for the final AL wild-card place." Everything took place swiftly and also once more, just extremely reactionary," Wilson stated. "I believe our company will all leap out of the way. However merely unfavorable it wound up that way.".