.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff opportunities slipping away, the Seat Mariners found a distressing new means to lose.A zooming bat. A short-term memory oversight. As well as a bizarre double play." I do not assume I have actually ever before viewed that prior to in a game. Just a peculiar scenario," Seat supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the Nyc Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, but it was exactly how the bottom of the 10th played out that will certainly be don't forgotten in Mariners folklore as another chapter in a time that has gone awry.With joggers at the edges, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually picked off 3rd base after evading a soaring bat that slipped out of the hands of Randy Arozarena when he struck out swinging." I have actually talked to a couple of individuals and all of them pointed out, 'I've never viewed that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff singular in the 10th innovative Rodru00edguez, the automatic 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 scalp." In all honesty, I observed the bat flying right around my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's younger superstar scampered out of the way into filthy region as the baseball bat skipped responsible for 3rd base, and also it took him a minute to collect yourself. However the play wasn't dead, as well as catcher Austin Wells made a simple toss to 3rd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez prior to he could possibly respond to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he thought the play was over considering that the bat went flying." After I saw the bat I thought it was actually heading to be actually a dead play, and then they were going to grab the baseball bat and also I was actually heading to go back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez claimed. "I escaped as well as transformed my spine to the industry and also I listened to [third bottom train] Manny [Acta] screaming, 'Return to third.' That is actually when I responded to third." In all honesty, then I wasn't truly thinking about the activity, merely attempting to escape the bat coming at me. That's what happened. That was actually a first for me, for certain." Hamilton set out Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's mistake came a night after Winner Robles made the dubious selection to attempt swiping home in the first inning against Nyc while Turner went to home plate with a 3-0 count and also the manners loaded. Robles was out and the Yankees spun to a quick and easy victory.This defeat was actually a lot more discouraging for Seattle as both Houston and Minnesota lost earlier Wednesday, meaning the Mariners skipped a possibility to make up required ground in the AL West and also wild-card ethnicities. Seat is five activities back of first-place Houston in the division and also three responsible for Minnesota for the ultimate AL wild-card area." Everything took place fast and again, merely really reactionary," Wilson stated. "I assume our team 'd all jump off the beaten track. But only unfavorable it found yourself by doing this.".