.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff chances escaping, the Seat Mariners found a distressing new technique to lose.A speeding bat. A brief moment blunder. As well as a peculiar dual play." I do not believe I've ever seen that before in a game. Only a weird condition," Seattle manager 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 actually just how all-time low of the 10th played out that will definitely be always remembered in Mariners lore as another section in a season that has gone awry.With runners at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was shot 3rd base after dodging a flying bat that slipped out of the hands of Randy Arozarena when he headed moving." I've talked to a handful of men plus all of them said, 'I have actually never viewed that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle tracked 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th state-of-the-art Rodru00edguez, the automatic runner, from keystone to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and also his bat went voyaging out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." In all honesty, I observed the bat piloting right approximately my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's young superstar scampered off the beaten track into repulsive region as the bat bounded responsible for third foundation, and it took him an instant to collect yourself. But the play wasn't lifeless, as well as catcher Austin Wells made a quick toss to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez just before he can respond to the bag.Rodru00edguez claimed he believed the play ended given that the bat went soaring." After I found the bat I thought it was mosting likely to be a lifeless play, and after that they were actually mosting likely to get the baseball bat and I was going to return to third," Rodru00edguez said. "I got out and also switched my back to the industry and I heard [third bottom instructor] Manny [Acta] yelling, 'Return to third.' That is actually when I responded to third." Frankly, at that moment I had not been actually dealing with the game, merely trying to avoid the baseball bat coming with me. That's what took place. That was actually a very first for me, for sure." Hamilton began Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's oversight came an evening after Victor Robles made the doubtful decision to make an effort stealing house in the first inning versus New York while Turner was at the plate along with a 3-0 count and also the bases loaded. Robles was actually out as well as the Yankees spun to a very easy victory.This defeat was actually more frustrating for Seattle as both Houston and Minnesota lost earlier Wednesday, implying the Mariners skipped an odds to comprise needed ground in the AL West and also wild-card ethnicities. Seattle is 5 video games rear of first-place Houston in the branch as well as three behind Minnesota for the final AL wild-card place." All of it happened fast and again, just very reactionary," Wilson pointed out. "I think our team 'd all dive out of the way. However simply unlucky it wound up this way.".