.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff opportunities slipping away, the Seattle Mariners discovered an uncomfortable brand-new technique to lose.A zooming baseball bat. A temporary moment breach. And a bizarre dual play." I do not assume I have actually ever found that before in a video game. Simply a strange scenario," Seat manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners was up to the New york city Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, but it was exactly how all-time low of the 10th participated in out that will be kept in mind in Mariners tradition as yet another chapter in a period that has gone awry.With runners at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was shot third bottom after evading a flying baseball bat that unclothed the hands of Randy Arozarena when he headed moving." I have actually asked a handful of guys and all of all of them mentioned, 'I have actually certainly never seen that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th sophisticated Rodru00edguez, the automatic distance runner, from keystone to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, as well as his baseball bat went setting sail out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Frankly, I viewed the bat taking flight right up to my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's younger celebrity scuttled out of the way in to nasty territory as the baseball bat bounded responsible for 3rd bottom, as well as it took him a moment to regroup. Yet the play wasn't dead, and also catcher Austin Wells made an easy toss to 3rd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez just before he could respond to the bag.Rodru00edguez said he believed the play was over since the bat went soaring." After I observed the bat I assumed it was actually going to be a lifeless play, and afterwards they were heading to pick up the baseball bat and I was visiting return to 3rd," Rodru00edguez mentioned. "I got away as well as turned my spine to the area and I listened to [3rd base coach] Manny [Acta] yelling, 'Return to third.' That's when I got back to third." Honestly, at that moment I had not been really dealing with the video game, simply attempting to escape the baseball bat coming with me. That's what occurred. That was actually a 1st for me, without a doubt." Hamilton set out Justin Turner to end it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's oversight came a night after Winner Robles created the questionable decision to try swiping home in the initial inning against New york city while Turner went to the plate with a 3-0 matter and also the manners packed. Robles was out as well as the Yankees spun to a very easy victory.This loss was more annoying for Seat as both Houston and Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, suggesting the Mariners skipped a chance to comprise required ground in the AL West and wild-card ethnicities. Seattle is actually 5 games rear of first-place Houston in the department and also three responsible for Minnesota for the ultimate AL wild-card location." All of it occurred quickly as well as once again, just extremely reactionary," Wilson mentioned. "I assume we will all jump out of the way. However only unlucky it ended up by doing this.".