.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff odds escaping, the Seat Mariners found an agonizing brand-new means to lose.A zooming baseball bat. A temporary mind lapse. And also a strange dual play." I do not believe I have actually ever viewed that prior to in an activity. Only an unusual condition," Seattle supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the New york city Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, but it was actually exactly how the bottom of the 10th played out that will be actually remembered in Mariners tradition as yet another chapter in a season that has actually gone awry.With distance runners at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually picked off 3rd bottom after dodging a soaring baseball bat that slipped out of the hands of Randy Arozarena when he started out moving." I've asked a few individuals and all of them pointed out, 'I have actually certainly never found that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle tracked 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff singular in the 10th enhanced Rodru00edguez, the automatic runner, coming from second base to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and also his baseball bat went cruising away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." In all honesty, I found the baseball bat flighting right up to my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's younger star scampered off the beaten track into repulsive area as the bat jumped behind 3rd bottom, as well as it took him an instant to collect yourself. However the play had not been lifeless, as well as catcher Austin Wells created an easy throw to third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez prior to he could possibly return to the bag.Rodru00edguez said he believed the play ended due to the fact that the bat went flying." After I viewed the baseball bat I believed it was mosting likely to be a lifeless play, and afterwards they were visiting grab the baseball bat as well as I was actually heading to get back to third," Rodru00edguez pointed out. "I got away and also turned my back to the area as well as I heard [3rd foundation instructor] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Respond to third.' That's when I got back to 3rd." Honestly, then I had not been really thinking about the game, only attempting to avoid the baseball bat coming at me. That's what took place. That was actually a 1st for me, for certain." Hamilton began Justin Turner to finish it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's mistake happened an evening after Winner Robles created the suspicious decision to attempt taking house in the initial inning against New York while Turner was at the plate with a 3-0 count and the manners packed. Robles was out and also the Yankees spun to a very easy victory.This defeat was actually even more aggravating for Seattle as both Houston and also Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, implying the Mariners missed out on an odds to compose needed to have ground in the AL West and also wild-card ethnicities. Seattle is actually five video games rear of first-place Houston in the department and three responsible for Minnesota for the ultimate AL wild-card area." Everything happened swiftly and once more, only incredibly reactionary," Wilson said. "I believe our company 'd all dive off the beaten track. Yet merely unlucky it wound up by doing this.".