.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff odds escaping, the Seattle Mariners found an agonizing new means to lose.A flying bat. A short-term memory lapse. As well as a peculiar dual play." I do not believe I've ever observed that prior to in a video game. Just a weird circumstance," Seat supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the New york city Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, however it was exactly how the bottom of the 10th played out that will definitely be actually born in mind in Mariners folklore as another section in a season that has actually gone awry.With joggers at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was shot 3rd bottom after dodging a soaring baseball bat that slipped out of the palms of Randy Arozarena when he headed swinging." I have actually asked a couple of people and all of all of them mentioned, 'I've never observed that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle routed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th advanced Rodru00edguez, the automated distance runner, from keystone to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, as well as his bat went voyaging away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Frankly, I observed the baseball bat piloting right around my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful celebrity scuttled out of the way right into repulsive territory as the baseball bat jumped behind third base, and also it took him a second to collect yourself. Yet the play wasn't dead, as well as catcher Austin Wells made a quick toss to 3rd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez before he might get back to the bag.Rodru00edguez stated he thought the play mored than since the bat went soaring." After I found the bat I assumed it was heading to be actually a lifeless play, and afterwards they were actually going to grab the baseball bat as well as I was actually going to return to 3rd," Rodru00edguez said. "I got out as well as transformed my back to the area and I listened to [3rd bottom train] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Get back to 3rd.' That is actually when I responded to third." Truthfully, at that moment I had not been actually considering the game, only making an effort to avoid the bat coming at me. That's what occurred. That was a first for me, for certain." Hamilton headed Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's mistake came an evening after Victor Robles made the questionable choice to make an effort swiping house in the 1st inning against New york city while Turner went to the plate with a 3-0 count and also the bases filled. Robles was actually out as well as the Yankees rolled to an easy victory.This defeat was extra frustrating for Seattle as both Houston and also Minnesota dropped earlier Wednesday, meaning the Mariners overlooked a possibility to comprise needed to have ground in the AL West as well as wild-card nationalities. Seat is five games rear of first-place Houston in the branch and three responsible for Minnesota for the last AL wild-card spot." Everything occurred fast as well as once again, simply incredibly reactionary," Wilson claimed. "I presume our company will all hop out of the way. However merely unfavorable it found yourself that way.".