.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff possibilities departing, the Seattle Mariners discovered an excruciating new way to lose.A speeding bat. A short-lived mind lapse. And also an unusual double play." I don't assume I've ever before observed that prior to in a game. Only a strange condition," Seattle supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the New york city Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, but it was exactly how the bottom of the 10th played out that will certainly be don't forgotten in Mariners folklore as an additional phase in a time that has gone awry.With runners at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was shot 3rd base after evading a flying bat that slipped out of the palms of Randy Arozarena when he started out moving." I have actually talked to a few men and all of them stated, 'I've never ever seen that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff single in the 10th innovative Rodru00edguez, the automatic distance runner, coming from keystone to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, as well as his bat went sailing away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." In all honesty, I saw the bat piloting right approximately my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's young celebrity scampered out of the way into foul area as the bat skipped behind 3rd foundation, as well as it took him a minute to regroup. But the play wasn't dead, and catcher Austin Wells created a fast toss to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez prior to he might respond to the bag.Rodru00edguez said he thought the play ended since the bat went soaring." After I found the baseball bat I believed it was going to be a dead play, and after that they were actually visiting get the baseball bat as well as I was actually going to go back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez claimed. "I escaped as well as turned my back to the field and I listened to [third foundation coach] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Return to third.' That's when I responded to third." Honestly, then I had not been definitely dealing with the video game, simply attempting to avoid the baseball bat coming at me. That's what happened. That was actually a very first for me, for certain." Hamilton started out Justin Turner to end it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's blunder happened a night after Winner Robles made the questionable decision to attempt stealing house in the very first inning against New york city while Turner went to home plate along with a 3-0 count and the bases loaded. Robles was out as well as the Yankees spun to a very easy victory.This defeat was actually a lot more frustrating for Seattle as both Houston as well as Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, suggesting the Mariners skipped a possibility to compose required ground in the AL West as well as wild-card races. Seattle is actually five games back of first-place Houston in the division and three behind Minnesota for the final AL wild-card place." All of it took place swiftly as well as once again, just extremely reactionary," Wilson mentioned. "I think our company 'd all dive out of the way. But just unfortunate it found yourself this way.".