.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff opportunities escaping, the Seat Mariners located an agonizing new way to lose.A flying bat. A brief memory blunder. As well as a strange double play." I do not presume I've ever before viewed that before in a game. Merely an unusual scenario," Seattle supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the Nyc Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, however it was just how the bottom of the 10th played out that will be actually remembered in Mariners lore as an additional phase in a period that has actually gone awry.With joggers at the corners, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually shot third base after dodging a flying bat that slipped out of the hands of Randy Arozarena when he headed swinging." I have actually asked a few guys and all of them said, 'I've never ever viewed that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle routed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff singular in the 10th enhanced Rodru00edguez, the automatic runner, coming from keystone to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, and also his baseball bat went setting sail out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Honestly, I saw the baseball bat taking flight right around my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful celebrity scuttled out of the way into repulsive region as the bat bounded behind third foundation, and it took him a second to collect yourself. But the play wasn't dead, and also catcher Austin Wells made a fast throw to third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez just before he can return to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he assumed the play ended considering that the bat went flying." After I viewed the bat I thought it was visiting be a lifeless play, and then they were heading to pick up the bat as well as I was mosting likely to get back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez claimed. "I escaped as well as transformed my back to the field and also I heard [third bottom coach] Manny [Acta] yelling, 'Get back to 3rd.' That is actually when I responded to 3rd." Honestly, at that moment I had not been truly considering the game, just making an effort to escape the bat coming with me. That's what happened. That was a first for me, without a doubt." Hamilton headed Justin Turner to end it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's mistake happened an evening after Victor Robles created the dubious selection to try stealing house in the 1st inning versus Nyc while Turner was at the plate with a 3-0 count and also the manners loaded. Robles was actually out and also the Yankees spun to a simple victory.This defeat was actually extra frustrating for Seat as each Houston and also Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, implying the Mariners missed out on a chance to compose needed ground in the AL West and also wild-card ethnicities. Seat is 5 video games back of first-place Houston in the branch as well as three behind Minnesota for the ultimate AL wild-card place." Everything took place quickly and also once more, only quite reactionary," Wilson said. "I assume our experts will all dive out of the way. However simply unfavorable it ended up in this way.".