.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff chances slipping away, the Seattle Mariners found a very painful brand-new way to lose.A flying baseball bat. A momentary mind oversight. As well as a peculiar dual play." I don't assume I've ever before found that just before in a game. Just an unusual situation," Seat manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the New York Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, but it was actually how the bottom of the 10th participated in out that will certainly be actually kept in mind in Mariners folklore as yet another chapter in a time that has gone awry.With joggers at the corners, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually shot third foundation after dodging a flying baseball bat that unclothed the hands of Randy Arozarena when he started out moving." I have actually talked to a handful of fellas and all of all of them mentioned, 'I've never ever observed that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff singular in the 10th sophisticated Rodru00edguez, the automated runner, from keystone to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and also his baseball bat went setting sail away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." In all honesty, I observed the baseball bat piloting right up to my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's younger celebrity scuttled out of the way in to foul area as the baseball bat jumped responsible for third foundation, as well as it took him a moment to regroup. But the play had not been lifeless, as well as catcher Austin Wells created a simple throw to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez just before he can respond to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he assumed the play mored than due to the fact that the bat went soaring." After I viewed the bat I believed it was actually heading to be actually a dead play, and afterwards they were actually visiting pick up the baseball bat and I was going to return to 3rd," Rodru00edguez claimed. "I fled as well as transformed my back to the area and I heard [3rd base trainer] Manny [Acta] shouting, 'Return to third.' That is actually when I got back to third." Frankly, then I wasn't definitely dealing with the video game, just making an effort to escape the baseball bat coming at me. That's what took place. That was a 1st for me, for certain." Hamilton struck out Justin Turner to finish it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's blunder happened an evening after Victor Robles created the questionable decision to make an effort stealing house in the first inning versus New York while Turner was at the plate along with a 3-0 matter and the bases packed. Robles was out and also the Yankees spun to a very easy victory.This defeat was actually extra annoying for Seattle as both Houston as well as Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, indicating the Mariners missed an odds to make up needed ground in the AL West and wild-card nationalities. Seat is 5 games back of first-place Houston in the division and three responsible for Minnesota for the final AL wild-card place." It all happened quickly and also once more, simply extremely reactionary," Wilson said. "I believe our experts 'd all jump out of the way. Yet only unlucky it ended up in this way.".