.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff opportunities slipping away, the Seattle Mariners discovered an excruciating brand new way to lose.A zooming baseball bat. A brief moment breach. And a strange double play." I do not believe I have actually ever before viewed that just before in an activity. Just a weird scenario," Seattle supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the The big apple Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, however it was how the bottom of the 10th participated in out that will be actually always remembered in Mariners lore as another section in a time that has actually gone awry.With runners at the edges, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually picked off third foundation after evading a soaring baseball bat that unclothed the hands of Randy Arozarena when he began moving." I have actually inquired a couple of guys plus all of them stated, 'I've certainly never observed that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle routed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th state-of-the-art Rodru00edguez, the automated runner, coming from second base to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and also his baseball bat went sailing away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Frankly, I saw the bat piloting right up to my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's younger superstar scuttled off the beaten track into foul region as the bat bounded behind third base, as well as it took him a minute to regroup. But the play wasn't dead, and catcher Austin Wells created a fast toss to 3rd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez before he can get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he presumed the play was over since the bat went flying." After I found the baseball bat I assumed it was mosting likely to be actually a lifeless play, and afterwards they were actually mosting likely to get the bat as well as I was going to get back to third," Rodru00edguez stated. "I got away and switched my back to the industry and I listened to [3rd base trainer] Manny [Acta] yelling, 'Get back to 3rd.' That is actually when I responded to third." Truthfully, at that moment I had not been actually dealing with the game, merely attempting to escape the bat coming at me. That's what occurred. That was a first for me, without a doubt." Hamilton started out Justin Turner to end it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's oversight happened a night after Victor Robles made the questionable choice to try taking home in the very first inning against New York while Turner went to the plate along with a 3-0 matter as well as the bases packed. Robles was out and also the Yankees rolled to an easy victory.This defeat was much more annoying for Seattle as each Houston and Minnesota lost earlier Wednesday, indicating the Mariners missed an opportunity to compose needed to have ground in the AL West as well as wild-card ethnicities. Seattle is actually five video games back of first-place Houston in the branch and also 3 responsible for Minnesota for the last AL wild-card spot." It all happened fast and also again, only very reactionary," Wilson mentioned. "I presume our experts would certainly all leap out of the way. But only unfavorable it wound up by doing this.".