.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff chances departing, the Seat Mariners located an unpleasant new way to lose.A speeding bat. A short-term memory blunder. And an unusual double play." I don't presume I have actually ever before observed that just before in an activity. Only a weird condition," Seat manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the Nyc Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, but it was actually exactly how all-time low of the 10th participated in out that are going to be always remembered in Mariners lore as an additional phase in a period that has gone awry.With distance runners at the edges, Julio Rodru00edguez was picked off 3rd base after evading a soaring bat that slipped out of the palms of Randy Arozarena when he set out swinging." I have actually talked to a handful of guys plus all of all of them pointed out, 'I have actually never seen that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle tracked 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff singular in the 10th state-of-the-art Rodru00edguez, the automated distance runner, from second base to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, as well as his baseball bat went setting sail out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Truthfully, I viewed the baseball bat flighting right around my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful star scampered off the beaten track into repulsive territory as the baseball bat bounded behind third foundation, and it took him a minute to collect yourself. However the play wasn't lifeless, and also catcher Austin Wells created a simple throw to 3rd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez just before he could return to the bag.Rodru00edguez said he believed the play ended due to the fact that the bat went flying." After I observed the baseball bat I thought it was actually heading to be actually a lifeless play, and then they were visiting pick up the bat and I was actually going to return to 3rd," Rodru00edguez pointed out. "I got out and turned my spine to the industry and also I listened to [third base coach] Manny [Acta] yelling, 'Return to third.' That's when I got back to 3rd." Truthfully, then I wasn't truly thinking of the video game, simply attempting to avoid the bat coming with me. That's what occurred. That was a first for me, for sure." Hamilton set out Justin Turner to end it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's error happened an evening after Winner Robles created the questionable choice to attempt taking house in the initial inning versus New York while Turner went to home plate with a 3-0 count and the bases loaded. Robles was out and also the Yankees spun to an effortless victory.This loss was actually extra frustrating for Seat as each Houston and also Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, suggesting the Mariners missed out on an opportunity to make up required ground in the AL West as well as wild-card ethnicities. Seat is actually 5 activities back of first-place Houston in the department as well as 3 behind Minnesota for the last AL wild-card place." All of it took place swiftly and also again, simply quite reactionary," Wilson pointed out. "I assume our company 'd all jump out of the way. But simply unfavorable it wound up this way.".