.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff odds escaping, the Seattle Mariners located an excruciating new technique to lose.A flying bat. A temporary memory blunder. As well as a peculiar dual play." I don't presume I've ever before seen that just before in a game. Simply a peculiar scenario," Seattle supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the The big apple 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 kept in mind in Mariners lore as an additional phase in a time that has gone awry.With distance runners at the corners, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually picked off third base after evading a soaring bat that unclothed the palms of Randy Arozarena when he began swinging." I have actually asked a handful of men plus all of all of them said, 'I have actually never found that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff singular in the 10th enhanced Rodru00edguez, the automatic runner, coming from keystone to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, as well as his bat went cruising out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Truthfully, I saw the baseball bat flying right as much as my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful superstar scampered off the beaten track into foul region as the bat bounded responsible for 3rd base, and it took him a minute to collect yourself. But the play had not been dead, as well as catcher Austin Wells made an easy throw to third baseman Jazz music Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez prior to he might return to the bag.Rodru00edguez said he believed the play was over because the bat went soaring." After I viewed the baseball bat I believed it was actually heading to be actually a lifeless play, and afterwards they were actually heading to get the baseball bat and I was actually mosting likely to go back to 3rd," Rodru00edguez stated. "I fled and also turned my back to the area as well as I heard [third foundation train] Manny [Acta] yelling, 'Return to third.' That's when I returned to third." In all honesty, then I wasn't definitely dealing with the game, simply attempting to get away from the bat coming with me. That's what happened. That was a very first for me, without a doubt." Hamilton headed Justin Turner to end it, securing a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's mistake came a night after Victor Robles made the dubious choice to try stealing home in the initial inning versus New york city while Turner was at home plate along with a 3-0 matter as well as the manners filled. Robles was out and the Yankees rolled to a very easy victory.This defeat was a lot more annoying for Seat as each Houston and also Minnesota lost earlier Wednesday, meaning the Mariners missed an opportunity to make up needed to have ground in the AL West as well as wild-card races. Seattle is five activities rear of first-place Houston in the department and three behind Minnesota for the ultimate AL wild-card area." Everything happened swiftly and also once again, only incredibly reactionary," Wilson stated. "I believe our company 'd all leap off the beaten track. Yet just unfortunate it wound up in this way.".