.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff possibilities slipping away, the Seattle Mariners located an uncomfortable brand new way to lose.A zooming baseball bat. A short-lived memory lapse. And a bizarre double play." I don't assume I have actually ever viewed that prior to in a video game. Only a peculiar scenario," Seat supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the Nyc Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, but it was how all-time low of the 10th participated in out that will be actually don't forgotten in Mariners tradition as yet another section in a season that has actually gone awry.With distance runners at the corners, Julio Rodru00edguez was shot third foundation after dodging a flying baseball bat that slipped out of the hands of Randy Arozarena when he struck out moving." I have actually asked a handful of people plus all of them claimed, 'I have actually never observed that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle routed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff single in the 10th advanced Rodru00edguez, the automatic distance runner, from second base to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, as well as his baseball bat went cruising out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Honestly, I found the baseball bat taking flight right as much as my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful celebrity scuttled off the beaten track right into nasty region as the baseball bat jumped behind 3rd base, as well as it took him a minute to regroup. However the play wasn't lifeless, and catcher Austin Wells made a simple toss to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez prior to he can return to the bag.Rodru00edguez claimed he thought the play mored than since the baseball bat went soaring." After I found the bat I thought it was actually visiting be actually a dead play, and then they were actually visiting get the bat as well as I was actually heading to go back to third," Rodru00edguez pointed out. "I got out and transformed my back to the area and also I listened to [3rd foundation train] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Get back to 3rd.' That's when I returned to 3rd." Truthfully, then I wasn't definitely thinking of the activity, simply attempting to get away from the baseball bat coming at me. That's what happened. That was an initial for me, for certain." Hamilton struck out Justin Turner to end it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's mistake came an evening after Victor Robles made the questionable selection to make an effort stealing home in the very first inning against The big apple while Turner was at home plate along with a 3-0 count as well as the manners loaded. Robles was actually out and also the Yankees rolled to a quick and easy victory.This loss was actually much more aggravating for Seat as each Houston and Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, implying the Mariners missed an opportunity to compose required ground in the AL West and also wild-card races. Seat is actually 5 video games back of first-place Houston in the branch as well as three responsible for Minnesota for the final AL wild-card area." Everything occurred swiftly and once more, just quite reactionary," Wilson mentioned. "I presume our team would certainly all leap out of the way. But merely unfavorable it wound up this way.".