.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff chances departing, the Seat Mariners discovered an uncomfortable new means to lose.A zooming bat. A brief moment blunder. And a peculiar double play." I do not think I have actually ever observed that before in a video game. Just an unusual scenario," Seat manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the Nyc Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, yet it was exactly how the bottom of the 10th participated in out that are going to be remembered in Mariners tradition as one more chapter in a period that has gone awry.With runners at the corners, Julio Rodru00edguez was picked off 3rd base after evading a soaring baseball bat that slipped out of the hands of Randy Arozarena when he began swinging." I've asked a couple of men and all of all of them claimed, 'I have actually never ever viewed that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle routed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff single in the 10th advanced Rodru00edguez, the automatic distance runner, coming from second base to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, and his baseball bat went setting sail away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Truthfully, I saw the baseball bat taking flight right around my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful star scampered out of the way in to nasty region as the baseball bat bounded responsible for third foundation, as well as it took him a second to regroup. Yet the play had not been lifeless, as well as catcher Austin Wells created an easy toss to third baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez just before he might respond to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he believed the play mored than since the bat went flying." After I observed the bat I assumed it was actually going to be a dead play, and then they were actually mosting likely to grab the bat and I was going to go back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez claimed. "I escaped and also switched my back to the area and also I listened to [3rd bottom train] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Return to 3rd.' That's when I returned to 3rd." Frankly, then I had not been really thinking of the game, only trying to avoid the bat coming with me. That's what took place. That was actually a 1st for me, for certain." Hamilton struck out Justin Turner to end it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's blunder came a night after Victor Robles made the doubtful choice to try swiping home in the first inning against New york city while Turner was at the plate along with a 3-0 count and the bases packed. Robles was actually out and also the Yankees spun to a very easy victory.This defeat was actually even more discouraging for Seat as each Houston and Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, meaning the Mariners overlooked a possibility to compose needed ground in the AL West and wild-card nationalities. Seattle is five games back of first-place Houston in the department as well as 3 behind Minnesota for the last AL wild-card area." Everything took place quickly and once more, merely extremely reactionary," Wilson mentioned. "I believe we 'd all hop off the beaten track. Yet merely regrettable it found yourself that way.".