.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff odds escaping, the Seat Mariners found a very painful brand-new technique to lose.A zooming baseball bat. A short-term memory breach. And also a bizarre double play." I do not presume I have actually ever observed that just before in a video game. Just a strange condition," Seat manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the New york city Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, yet it was actually how the bottom of the 10th played out that will certainly be always remembered in Mariners tradition as another chapter in a period that has actually gone awry.With distance runners at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was picked off third base after evading a flying bat that slipped out of the palms of Randy Arozarena when he set out swinging." I have actually inquired a handful of fellas plus all of them pointed out, 'I have actually certainly never viewed that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle routed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th sophisticated Rodru00edguez, the automatic distance runner, from keystone to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, as well as his bat went setting sail away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Frankly, I observed the bat piloting right up to my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's young superstar scuttled out of the way into repulsive area as the bat jumped responsible for third foundation, and it took him a second to regroup. Yet the play had not been dead, and catcher Austin Wells created a simple throw to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez prior to he could return to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he assumed the play mored than because the bat went flying." After I observed the baseball bat I believed it was actually heading to be actually a lifeless play, and afterwards they were mosting likely to grab the bat and I was actually visiting return to 3rd," Rodru00edguez claimed. "I got away and switched my spine to the industry and I heard [3rd base instructor] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Respond to 3rd.' That's when I responded to 3rd." In all honesty, at that moment I wasn't truly considering the game, just making an effort to avoid the bat coming at me. That's what happened. That was actually a first for me, for certain." Hamilton began Justin Turner to finish it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's oversight came an evening after Winner Robles created the dubious choice to make an effort taking house in the initial inning against New York while Turner went to the plate with a 3-0 matter and the bases filled. Robles was actually out and also the Yankees spun to an effortless victory.This defeat was much more annoying for Seat as each Houston and Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, meaning the Mariners overlooked an odds to comprise needed to have ground in the AL West and also wild-card races. Seat is actually five video games back of first-place Houston in the division as well as 3 responsible for Minnesota for the ultimate AL wild-card area." It all took place quickly and once again, only very reactionary," Wilson pointed out. "I think our team 'd all jump out of the way. But just unfavorable it found yourself that way.".