.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff possibilities departing, the Seattle Mariners discovered a very painful brand-new technique to lose.A speeding baseball bat. A short-term memory lapse. As well as a peculiar double play." I do not presume I've ever before viewed that prior to in an activity. Simply a weird scenario," Seat manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the The big apple Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, however it was exactly how the bottom of the 10th played out that will certainly be actually remembered in Mariners folklore as one more phase in a time that has gone awry.With runners at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually picked off third bottom after evading a soaring baseball bat that slipped out of the palms of Randy Arozarena when he headed swinging." I've asked a couple of fellas and all of all of them mentioned, 'I've never observed that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle routed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff single in the 10th enhanced Rodru00edguez, the automated jogger, from second base to 3rd. 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." In all honesty, I saw the baseball bat flying right approximately my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful celebrity scuttled off the beaten track into nasty region as the bat jumped responsible for 3rd bottom, and also it took him a moment to regroup. Yet the play had not been lifeless, and also catcher Austin Wells made an easy toss to 3rd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez before he might return to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he thought the play mored than considering that the bat went flying." After I viewed the bat I thought it was actually mosting likely to be a dead play, and afterwards they were actually mosting likely to pick up the baseball bat and also I was visiting get back to third," Rodru00edguez pointed out. "I got away and turned my spine to the field as well as I listened to [3rd foundation coach] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Get back to third.' That is actually when I got back to 3rd." Frankly, then I wasn't actually thinking about the video game, only attempting to avoid the bat coming with me. That's what happened. That was a first for me, without a doubt." Hamilton started out Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's error came a night after Victor Robles created the doubtful selection to try stealing house in the initial inning against The big apple while Turner went to the plate along with a 3-0 count as well as the bases loaded. Robles was out as well as the Yankees spun to a simple victory.This loss was much more frustrating for Seat as both Houston and Minnesota lost earlier Wednesday, meaning the Mariners missed out on a possibility to make up required ground in the AL West and also wild-card ethnicities. Seat is 5 games rear of first-place Houston in the department and also three responsible for Minnesota for the ultimate AL wild-card spot." Everything took place swiftly and once more, merely incredibly reactionary," Wilson claimed. "I believe we will all leap out of the way. However simply unfortunate it ended up that way.".