.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff chances slipping away, the Seattle Mariners discovered an uncomfortable new means to lose.A flying bat. A momentary moment oversight. As well as a peculiar dual play." I do not believe I have actually ever seen that before in an activity. Only an unusual situation," Seat manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the New York Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, yet it was actually just how the bottom of the 10th participated in out that will definitely be actually always remembered in Mariners tradition as yet another chapter in a period that has actually gone awry.With runners at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was picked off third bottom after dodging a flying baseball bat that unclothed the palms of Randy Arozarena when he struck out swinging." I've talked to a few men plus all of all of them mentioned, 'I have actually never observed that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff singular in the 10th state-of-the-art Rodru00edguez, the automated jogger, from keystone to 3rd. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, as well as his bat went sailing away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." In all honesty, I viewed the baseball bat piloting right up to my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's young superstar scampered out of the way in to nasty region as the baseball bat bounded behind 3rd bottom, and also it took him a moment to collect yourself. Yet the play had not been dead, and also catcher Austin Wells created a fast toss to third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez prior to he could respond to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he believed the play ended given that the baseball bat went flying." After I viewed the bat I believed it was heading to be actually a dead play, and afterwards they were going to get the bat and also I was mosting likely to return to third," Rodru00edguez said. "I fled and also turned my spine to the field and also I listened to [third base train] Manny [Acta] hollering, 'Return to third.' That is actually when I responded to third." Frankly, at that moment I wasn't truly thinking about the activity, merely trying to get away from the baseball bat coming at me. That's what happened. That was an initial for me, for sure." Hamilton began Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's mistake happened an evening after Victor Robles created the doubtful decision to attempt stealing home in the 1st inning versus Nyc while Turner went to home plate with a 3-0 count and the bases packed. Robles was actually out as well as the Yankees spun to a quick and easy victory.This defeat was much more discouraging for Seat as both Houston as well as Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, implying the Mariners missed out on a chance to make up needed ground in the AL West and wild-card races. Seat is actually five games back of first-place Houston in the division as well as 3 behind Minnesota for the ultimate AL wild-card area." It all took place quickly and also once again, simply extremely reactionary," Wilson mentioned. "I believe we will all leap out of the way. But simply unlucky it found yourself in this way.".