.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff chances departing, the Seat Mariners found an unpleasant new way to lose.A speeding bat. A short-term moment breach. And a strange double play." I don't presume I've ever before observed that just before in a game. Merely a weird situation," Seat supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the New york city Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, but it was actually how all-time low of the 10th played out that will certainly be actually kept in mind in Mariners lore as an additional phase in a period that has actually gone awry.With distance runners at the edges, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually shot third bottom after evading a soaring baseball bat that unclothed the palms of Randy Arozarena when he began moving." I have actually talked to a handful of people plus all of all of them stated, 'I have actually never ever observed that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th state-of-the-art Rodru00edguez, the automatic runner, coming from second base to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and his baseball bat went setting sail away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Frankly, I found the bat taking flight right up to my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's young celebrity scuttled out of the way right into foul area as the baseball bat jumped responsible for third bottom, and also it took him a minute to regroup. But the play had not been dead, and catcher Austin Wells made a fast toss to 3rd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez just before he can return to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he presumed the play ended considering that the bat went soaring." After I observed the baseball bat I assumed it was visiting be actually a dead play, and then they were visiting grab the bat and also I was going to go back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez said. "I got away as well as switched my back to the area and I heard [third base instructor] Manny [Acta] shouting, 'Return to third.' That's when I returned to 3rd." Truthfully, at that moment I wasn't really considering the activity, just making an effort to get away from the baseball bat coming at me. That's what happened. That was actually a first for me, for sure." Hamilton headed Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's error came an evening after Winner Robles created the questionable selection to make an effort stealing home in the initial inning against New york city while Turner was at home plate with a 3-0 matter and also the bases packed. Robles was actually out and also the Yankees rolled to a very easy victory.This loss was actually extra discouraging for Seat as each Houston and Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, indicating the Mariners missed out on a possibility to make up required ground in the AL West and wild-card races. Seat is actually five video games rear of first-place Houston in the division as well as 3 responsible for Minnesota for the last AL wild-card spot." Everything happened swiftly and also once again, just very reactionary," Wilson pointed out. "I assume our company 'd all jump off the beaten track. Yet merely unlucky it wound up in this way.".