.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff chances slipping away, the Seat Mariners found an unpleasant brand-new means to lose.A speeding bat. A short-lived memory lapse. As well as a strange dual play." I don't presume I have actually ever seen that just before in a game. Only an unusual scenario," Seattle supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the New York Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, but it was how all-time low of the 10th participated in out that are going to be always remembered in Mariners folklore as yet another phase in a season that has gone awry.With joggers at the corners, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually picked off 3rd bottom after dodging a flying baseball bat that slipped out of the palms of Randy Arozarena when he began moving." I have actually inquired a few fellas and all of all of them stated, 'I've never observed that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle tracked 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th enhanced Rodru00edguez, the automated distance runner, coming from second base to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, and also his bat went setting sail out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Honestly, I observed the baseball bat flighting right up to my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful celebrity scuttled off the beaten track in to nasty area as the bat skipped responsible for 3rd bottom, and it took him a moment to collect yourself. Yet the play had not been dead, and catcher Austin Wells created a simple throw to third baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez before he can get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he assumed the play mored than since the baseball bat went flying." After I saw the baseball bat I believed it was actually heading to be a lifeless play, and after that they were visiting grab the bat and I was mosting likely to get back to third," Rodru00edguez stated. "I escaped and switched my back to the industry as well as I heard [third foundation coach] Manny [Acta] yelling, 'Respond to 3rd.' That's when I responded to 3rd." In all honesty, at that moment I wasn't actually dealing with the activity, merely trying to escape the bat coming with me. That's what took place. That was actually a very first for me, for certain." Hamilton headed Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's blunder came a night after Winner Robles created the doubtful choice to attempt taking house in the 1st inning against Nyc while Turner went to the plate with a 3-0 matter and also the bases packed. Robles was out and the Yankees rolled to an effortless victory.This defeat was even more annoying for Seattle as each Houston and Minnesota lost earlier Wednesday, indicating the Mariners missed out on a chance to make up required ground in the AL West and also wild-card ethnicities. Seat is actually five games rear of first-place Houston in the branch as well as three responsible for Minnesota for the last AL wild-card location." It all took place quick and once more, simply quite reactionary," Wilson said. "I believe our company would certainly all leap off the beaten track. But just unfavorable it ended up in this way.".