.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff chances slipping away, the Seattle Mariners located an uncomfortable new method to lose.A zooming bat. A short-term mind blunder. As well as an unusual double play." I do not think I have actually ever before seen that just before in a video game. Merely a weird situation," Seattle supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the Nyc Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, yet it was just how the bottom of the 10th participated in out that will be actually remembered in Mariners folklore as an additional chapter in a period that has actually gone awry.With distance runners at the corners, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually picked off 3rd base after evading a flying bat that unclothed the palms of Randy Arozarena when he started out swinging." I've inquired a couple of fellas and all of them stated, 'I have actually certainly never seen that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff singular in the 10th enhanced Rodru00edguez, the automatic distance runner, coming from keystone to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, and also his baseball bat went cruising out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." In all honesty, I observed the baseball bat piloting right as much as my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's younger celebrity scuttled out of the way in to nasty region as the bat skipped responsible for third bottom, as well as it took him a minute to collect yourself. However the play had not been dead, and catcher Austin Wells made an easy toss to third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez just before he could respond to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he thought the play mored than because the baseball bat went soaring." After I saw the bat I assumed it was heading to be a lifeless play, and after that they were actually heading to pick up the baseball bat as well as I was heading to go back to third," Rodru00edguez pointed out. "I got away and transformed my spine to the field as well as I listened to [3rd bottom train] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Get back to third.' That's when I returned to 3rd." In all honesty, then I had not been actually thinking about the activity, simply making an effort to avoid the baseball bat coming with me. That's what took place. That was actually a very first for me, for certain." Hamilton started out Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's blunder happened an evening after Victor Robles made the dubious decision to make an effort stealing home in the very first inning against New york city while Turner went to home plate along with a 3-0 count and also the manners packed. Robles was out and the Yankees rolled to a very easy victory.This loss was actually more irritating for Seat as both Houston and Minnesota lost earlier Wednesday, implying the Mariners overlooked a chance to comprise required ground in the AL West as well as wild-card ethnicities. Seat is five games rear of first-place Houston in the division and three responsible for Minnesota for the ultimate AL wild-card spot." All of it occurred quick and also once again, simply incredibly reactionary," Wilson stated. "I believe we would certainly all jump off the beaten track. Yet only unfortunate it wound up that way.".