.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff chances escaping, the Seattle Mariners found an uncomfortable brand-new method to lose.A zooming baseball bat. A temporary mind blunder. And also an unusual dual play." I don't believe I've ever before observed that prior to in an activity. Merely a peculiar circumstance," Seattle supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the Nyc Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, however it was just how the bottom of the 10th participated in out that will certainly be always remembered in Mariners lore as yet another chapter in a time that has actually gone awry.With joggers at the corners, Julio Rodru00edguez was shot third base after evading a soaring baseball bat that unclothed the palms of Randy Arozarena when he started out moving." I have actually asked a couple of individuals plus all of all of them mentioned, 'I have actually never ever viewed that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle tracked 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th enhanced Rodru00edguez, the automated runner, coming from keystone to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, and also his baseball bat went cruising away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Truthfully, I saw the bat piloting right as much as my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's younger celebrity scuttled out of the way right into filthy territory as the bat bounded responsible for 3rd base, as well as it took him an instant to regroup. However the play wasn't lifeless, and catcher Austin Wells created an easy toss to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez prior to he might get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he believed the play ended considering that the baseball bat went soaring." After I found the baseball bat I believed it was going to be a dead play, and then they were going to get the baseball bat as well as I was actually visiting get back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez claimed. "I escaped as well as transformed my back to the field and also I listened to [3rd base instructor] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Return to 3rd.' That's when I got back to 3rd." Frankly, at that moment I had not been actually considering the activity, just trying to avoid the bat coming with me. That's what took place. That was actually a very first for me, for certain." Hamilton began Justin Turner to end it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's mistake came an evening after Winner Robles made the suspicious decision to try swiping house in the 1st inning versus New York while Turner was at the plate along with a 3-0 matter and also the manners filled. Robles was actually out and the Yankees rolled to an easy victory.This loss was actually a lot more irritating for Seat as both Houston and also Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, suggesting the Mariners missed out on an opportunity to compose required ground in the AL West and also wild-card races. Seat is 5 activities back of first-place Houston in the branch and three behind Minnesota for the final AL wild-card location." It all occurred swiftly and once more, simply quite reactionary," Wilson claimed. "I believe we will all jump out of the way. But simply unlucky it ended up by doing this.".