.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff opportunities departing, the Seattle Mariners located a painful brand-new technique to lose.A zooming bat. A momentary moment oversight. As well as a strange dual play." I don't believe I have actually ever seen that prior to in a video game. Simply an unusual condition," Seat supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the The big apple Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, yet it was exactly how all-time low of the 10th participated in out that will definitely be actually kept in mind in Mariners folklore as yet another chapter in a period that has gone awry.With runners at the edges, Julio Rodru00edguez was shot third base after evading a flying baseball bat that unclothed the palms of Randy Arozarena when he headed moving." I've inquired a handful of fellas and all of them said, 'I have actually certainly never seen that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle routed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th state-of-the-art Rodru00edguez, the automatic jogger, from second base to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and also his baseball bat went cruising out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Honestly, I saw the bat flying right around my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful superstar scuttled out of the way in to nasty region as the bat jumped responsible for 3rd bottom, and it took him an instant to regroup. However the play wasn't lifeless, and catcher Austin Wells created an easy toss to third baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez just before he could return to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he assumed the play ended since the baseball bat went soaring." After I observed the baseball bat I assumed it was mosting likely to be a lifeless play, and after that they were actually visiting pick up the baseball bat and also I was mosting likely to go back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez said. "I escaped and also turned my back to the industry and also I listened to [3rd bottom train] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Return to 3rd.' That is actually when I responded to third." In all honesty, at that moment I had not been actually thinking about the activity, just attempting to escape the baseball bat coming at me. That's what happened. That was actually an initial for me, for sure." Hamilton started out Justin Turner to finish it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's blunder happened a night after Winner Robles created the suspicious choice to attempt swiping home in the very first inning versus Nyc while Turner went to home plate along with a 3-0 count as well as the bases filled. Robles was actually out and the Yankees rolled to a simple victory.This loss was much more aggravating for Seat as both Houston as well as Minnesota lost earlier Wednesday, indicating the Mariners missed a chance to compose required ground in the AL West as well as wild-card ethnicities. Seat is actually 5 activities back of first-place Houston in the branch and 3 responsible for Minnesota for the final AL wild-card place." It all happened swiftly and also once more, just extremely reactionary," Wilson pointed out. "I think we will all hop out of the way. However merely unlucky it ended up this way.".