.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff possibilities departing, the Seat Mariners found a distressing new means to lose.A flying bat. A temporary mind blunder. And a strange double play." I do not think I have actually ever observed that before in a game. Simply a strange situation," Seattle supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the New york city Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, however it was actually exactly how the bottom of the 10th participated in out that are going to be actually always remembered in Mariners lore as an additional phase in a time that has actually gone awry.With joggers at the edges, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually shot 3rd base after dodging a flying bat that unclothed the palms of Randy Arozarena when he struck out moving." I've inquired a handful of individuals and all of all of them stated, 'I have actually never ever observed that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle tracked 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff single in the 10th sophisticated Rodru00edguez, the automated distance runner, from second base to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and also his baseball bat went sailing away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Frankly, I saw the baseball bat piloting right around my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's younger star scuttled out of the way into repulsive territory as the baseball bat bounded behind third bottom, as well as it took him a minute to regroup. But the play had not been dead, and catcher Austin Wells created a fast throw to 3rd baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez just before he could possibly get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez claimed he assumed the play was over considering that the bat went soaring." After I viewed the bat I thought it was actually going to be actually a lifeless play, and then they were going to grab the baseball bat as well as I was heading to go back to third," Rodru00edguez said. "I got away and turned my back to the industry and also I heard [third foundation instructor] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Get back to 3rd.' That's when I got back to 3rd." Frankly, then I had not been actually dealing with the game, merely trying to escape the bat coming with me. That's what happened. That was a first for me, for sure." Hamilton set out Justin Turner to end it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's error happened a night after Winner Robles created the questionable decision to make an effort stealing house in the 1st inning versus New York while Turner was at the plate along with a 3-0 count and also the manners loaded. Robles was actually out and also the Yankees rolled to a quick and easy victory.This defeat was extra irritating for Seat as both Houston as well as Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, suggesting the Mariners missed out on a possibility to make up needed ground in the AL West as well as wild-card ethnicities. Seattle is 5 activities back of first-place Houston in the branch as well as 3 behind Minnesota for the last AL wild-card area." Everything took place fast as well as once more, simply extremely reactionary," Wilson said. "I believe our experts 'd all jump out of the way. Yet simply unfortunate it found yourself this way.".