.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff opportunities slipping away, the Seat Mariners located an excruciating new technique to lose.A flying bat. A short-term memory . As well as a bizarre double play." I do not assume I've ever found that prior to in a video game. Merely an odd scenario," Seattle manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the Nyc Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, yet it was actually just how the bottom of the 10th participated in out that are going to be actually kept in mind in Mariners tradition as an additional phase in a period that has actually gone awry.With distance runners at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually shot third base after dodging a flying baseball bat that unclothed the hands of Randy Arozarena when he headed swinging." I've talked to a few fellas plus all of them stated, 'I've certainly never viewed that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle routed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff singular in the 10th state-of-the-art Rodru00edguez, the automatic distance runner, from second base to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, as well as his bat went cruising away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Frankly, I viewed the bat taking flight right around my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's young celebrity scuttled out of the way into foul area as the baseball bat bounded responsible for 3rd bottom, and it took him a moment to collect yourself. But the play wasn't lifeless, and also catcher Austin Wells made a quick throw to 3rd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez just before he could get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he believed the play was over given that the bat went soaring." After I saw the baseball bat I thought it was going to be actually a lifeless play, and after that they were actually visiting pick up the bat and I was visiting go back to third," Rodru00edguez said. "I got away as well as turned my spine to the area and I heard [3rd foundation coach] Manny [Acta] screaming, 'Return to 3rd.' That is actually when I got back to third." Frankly, at that moment I had not been actually considering the game, simply trying to get away from the baseball bat coming with me. That's what happened. That was actually an initial for me, for sure." Hamilton set out Justin Turner to end it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's blunder happened a night after Victor Robles made the suspicious choice to try swiping home in the initial inning against The big apple while Turner was at the plate along with a 3-0 count and the bases loaded. Robles was actually out as well as the Yankees spun to a very easy victory.This defeat was actually even more frustrating for Seat as each Houston and also Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, meaning the Mariners missed out on a chance to make up required ground in the AL West and wild-card nationalities. Seat is actually 5 games rear of first-place Houston in the division and also 3 behind Minnesota for the last AL wild-card location." All of it occurred swiftly as well as once more, merely really reactionary," Wilson claimed. "I believe our team would certainly all leap out of the way. Yet simply regrettable it found yourself that way.".