.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff odds departing, the Seattle Mariners located a distressing brand-new method to lose.A flying bat. A brief moment breach. As well as a peculiar dual play." I don't presume I've ever before viewed that before in a game. Simply an unusual situation," Seat manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the New York Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, yet it was exactly how the bottom of the 10th played out that are going to be actually born in mind in Mariners tradition as another section in a period that has gone awry.With joggers at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was shot 3rd bottom after evading a flying baseball bat that slipped out of the palms of Randy Arozarena when he began swinging." I've talked to a few guys plus all of them pointed out, 'I've never seen that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff single in the 10th state-of-the-art Rodru00edguez, the automatic runner, from second base to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, and also his baseball bat went sailing away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Frankly, I found the baseball bat taking flight right around my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's young superstar scuttled out of the way in to filthy territory as the bat bounded behind 3rd bottom, as well as it took him a moment to regroup. But the play had not been dead, and also catcher Austin Wells made an easy throw to third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez prior to he could return to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he believed the play ended since the bat went flying." After I saw the bat I thought it was actually going to be actually a lifeless play, and afterwards they were actually heading to grab the baseball bat as well as I was visiting go back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez said. "I fled as well as switched my spine to the area as well as I heard [third foundation trainer] Manny [Acta] yelling, 'Respond to third.' That's when I returned to third." In all honesty, at that moment I had not been actually thinking about the video game, just attempting to escape the bat coming at me. That's what happened. That was actually an initial for me, without a doubt." Hamilton set out Justin Turner to end it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's blunder came a night after Victor Robles made the doubtful choice to make an effort stealing home in the initial inning versus Nyc while Turner was at home plate with a 3-0 count and the bases filled. Robles was actually out and also the Yankees rolled to an easy victory.This loss was even more irritating for Seattle as each Houston as well as Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, meaning the Mariners missed out on a possibility to compose required ground in the AL West and wild-card ethnicities. Seattle is actually five games rear of first-place Houston in the department and also three responsible for Minnesota for the final AL wild-card area." It all occurred swiftly and once again, merely very reactionary," Wilson pointed out. "I think our company 'd all dive out of the way. But simply unlucky it ended up in this way.".