.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff opportunities departing, the Seattle Mariners discovered a distressing brand new means to lose.A speeding baseball bat. A temporary mind . As well as a strange dual play." I do not believe I've ever found that before in an activity. Just a peculiar circumstance," Seat manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the Nyc Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, yet it was actually exactly how the bottom of the 10th participated in out that will be remembered in Mariners folklore as another chapter in a period that has 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 talked to a handful of fellas and all of all of them mentioned, 'I've never ever found that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th advanced Rodru00edguez, the automatic distance runner, from keystone 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 head." In all honesty, I viewed the baseball bat taking flight right up to my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's young celebrity scuttled off the beaten track into foul area as the baseball bat bounded behind 3rd base, and also it took him a second to regroup. However the play wasn't lifeless, as well as catcher Austin Wells created a simple toss to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez just before he could possibly get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he believed the play mored than due to the fact that the baseball bat went flying." After I viewed the baseball bat I assumed it was heading to be a lifeless play, and afterwards they were actually mosting likely to get the bat and also I was actually visiting go back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez mentioned. "I fled and turned my back to the field as well as I heard [3rd bottom train] Manny [Acta] screaming, 'Return to 3rd.' That is actually when I got back to third." In all honesty, then I had not been definitely dealing with the activity, only making an effort to escape the bat coming at me. That's what occurred. That was actually a first for me, for certain." Hamilton set out Justin Turner to end it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's blunder came an evening after Winner Robles made the suspicious choice to make an effort taking home in the 1st inning versus Nyc while Turner was at the plate with a 3-0 matter and also the bases packed. Robles was actually out as well as the Yankees rolled to an easy victory.This defeat was actually more irritating for Seat as each Houston and Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, suggesting the Mariners overlooked a chance to comprise required ground in the AL West as well as wild-card races. Seat is 5 games back of first-place Houston in the branch as well as three responsible for Minnesota for the ultimate AL wild-card place." It all occurred quickly and also once again, only incredibly reactionary," Wilson stated. "I believe our company would certainly all dive off the beaten track. However only unfavorable it wound up this way.".