.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff possibilities slipping away, the Seattle Mariners found an agonizing brand new method to lose.A zooming baseball bat. A short-lived memory blunder. As well as a strange dual play." I don't believe I have actually ever seen that prior to in an activity. Only a strange scenario," Seattle manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the The big apple Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, yet it was exactly how all-time low of the 10th participated in out that will definitely be actually kept in mind in Mariners folklore as yet another chapter in a season that has gone awry.With runners at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually picked off 3rd base after dodging a flying baseball bat that unclothed the hands of Randy Arozarena when he set out swinging." I have actually asked a couple of fellas and all of them stated, 'I've never ever observed that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle tracked 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th state-of-the-art Rodru00edguez, the automatic distance runner, coming from second base to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, and his bat went sailing out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Truthfully, I viewed the bat flighting right around my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's younger star scampered out of the way into repulsive area as the bat skipped behind 3rd foundation, and also it took him a moment to regroup. Yet the play wasn't lifeless, and also catcher Austin Wells created a fast toss to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez prior to he can return to the bag.Rodru00edguez claimed he believed the play ended given that the bat went flying." After I viewed the bat I believed it was heading to be actually a lifeless play, and afterwards they were actually visiting pick up the baseball bat and I was visiting return to 3rd," Rodru00edguez claimed. "I fled and also transformed my spine to the field and I listened to [third bottom train] Manny [Acta] yelling, 'Get back to third.' That is actually when I responded to third." Truthfully, then I wasn't definitely thinking of the activity, simply trying to escape the baseball bat coming at me. That's what happened. That was a very first for me, without a doubt." Hamilton struck out Justin Turner to end it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's oversight came an evening after Victor Robles created the dubious decision to try stealing house in the very first inning against The big apple while Turner went to home plate along with a 3-0 count as well as the manners packed. Robles was actually out and also the Yankees rolled to a simple victory.This defeat was extra aggravating for Seat as both Houston and also Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, implying the Mariners missed an odds to make up required ground in the AL West and wild-card nationalities. Seat is actually 5 video games back of first-place Houston in the division and 3 behind Minnesota for the final AL wild-card place." All of it took place swiftly as well as again, only very reactionary," Wilson said. "I presume our team will all dive out of the way. However merely regrettable it wound up this way.".