.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff chances slipping away, the Seat Mariners discovered an agonizing new technique to lose.A speeding baseball bat. A momentary mind breach. And also a peculiar double play." I do not presume I have actually ever found that just before in a video game. Only a peculiar circumstance," Seattle supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the New york city Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, however it was actually exactly how all-time low of the 10th played out that will certainly be remembered in Mariners lore as one more phase in a period that has actually gone awry.With runners at the edges, Julio Rodru00edguez was shot third foundation after dodging a flying baseball bat that slipped out of the hands of Randy Arozarena when he began swinging." I've talked to a handful of fellas and all of all of them said, 'I have actually never ever found that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff single in the 10th state-of-the-art Rodru00edguez, the automated jogger, from second base to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and his bat went sailing away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Honestly, I found the baseball bat piloting right up to my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's younger celebrity scuttled off the beaten track into foul region as the baseball bat bounded behind 3rd foundation, as well as it took him a minute to regroup. Yet the play had not been dead, as well as catcher Austin Wells made a fast toss to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez prior to he could possibly return to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he presumed the play ended given that the baseball bat went flying." After I viewed the bat I believed it was going to be a dead play, and after that they were actually mosting likely to pick up the baseball bat and I was visiting get back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez claimed. "I got out as well as transformed my spine to the area as well as I heard [third base trainer] Manny [Acta] screaming, 'Get back to 3rd.' That's when I got back to third." Frankly, then I wasn't really dealing with the game, just making an effort to get away from the baseball bat coming at me. That's what took place. That was actually a very first for me, for certain." Hamilton began Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's oversight happened a night after Winner Robles created the suspicious decision to attempt swiping home in the initial inning against New york city while Turner went to the plate along with a 3-0 count and also the bases packed. Robles was out and the Yankees rolled to a very easy victory.This defeat was extra frustrating for Seattle as both Houston as well as Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, suggesting the Mariners missed out on a possibility to make up required ground in the AL West and also wild-card nationalities. Seattle is actually five games back of first-place Houston in the division as well as three responsible for Minnesota for the final AL wild-card place." All of it occurred fast and once more, simply extremely reactionary," Wilson mentioned. "I presume we will all dive off the beaten track. But merely unlucky it ended up by doing this.".