.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff opportunities departing, the Seattle Mariners located a very painful brand new means to lose.A speeding bat. A brief memory oversight. As well as a bizarre double play." I do not believe I've ever observed that prior to in an activity. Merely a peculiar condition," Seat manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the New York Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, but it was how the bottom of the 10th played out that will certainly be don't forgotten in Mariners lore as one more section in a season that has actually gone awry.With joggers at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually picked off third foundation after dodging a flying bat that unclothed the hands of Randy Arozarena when he set out moving." I've asked a handful of individuals and all of them stated, 'I've never observed that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff singular in the 10th state-of-the-art Rodru00edguez, the automated jogger, coming from keystone to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, and also his baseball bat went setting sail away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." In all honesty, I found the baseball bat flying right approximately my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful superstar scampered off the beaten track right into repulsive territory as the baseball bat bounded behind 3rd base, and also it took him an instant to regroup. However the play had not been dead, as well as catcher Austin Wells made an easy toss to 3rd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez before he can get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez said he thought the play was over because the bat went flying." After I found the baseball bat I believed it was actually visiting be actually a dead play, and after that they were mosting likely to grab the bat and also I was heading to go back to third," Rodru00edguez stated. "I got away and also turned my spine to the area as well as I listened to [third foundation instructor] Manny [Acta] shouting, 'Return to 3rd.' That is actually when I returned to third." In all honesty, then I had not been actually thinking about the activity, just making an effort to get away from the bat coming at me. That's what occurred. That was a 1st for me, for sure." Hamilton headed Justin Turner to finish it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's blunder came an evening after Winner Robles made the suspicious choice to try taking home in the 1st inning against New York while Turner was at home plate with a 3-0 count and also the bases loaded. Robles was actually out and the Yankees spun to an easy victory.This defeat was actually even more annoying for Seat as both Houston and Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, indicating the Mariners missed an opportunity to make up needed ground in the AL West and also wild-card ethnicities. Seat is actually 5 activities rear of first-place Houston in the branch as well as 3 responsible for Minnesota for the ultimate AL wild-card place." Everything happened quick and once again, just extremely reactionary," Wilson claimed. "I believe our company would certainly all dive out of the way. But merely unfortunate it ended up by doing this.".