.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- Along with their playoff chances slipping away, the Seat Mariners discovered a distressing brand new method to lose.A zooming bat. A short-lived memory . And also an unusual double play." I do not think I have actually ever before found that before in an activity. Merely a weird circumstance," Seat supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the New York Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, yet it was actually exactly how the bottom of the 10th played out that will definitely be remembered in Mariners folklore as yet another chapter in a time that has actually gone awry.With runners at the sections, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually shot 3rd foundation after evading a soaring bat that unclothed the palms of Randy Arozarena when he started out swinging." I've inquired a handful of fellas plus all of all of them stated, 'I've never ever viewed that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle tracked 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary in the 10th sophisticated Rodru00edguez, the automated distance runner, coming from keystone to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena with a 2-2 slider, as well as his bat went voyaging out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Honestly, I viewed the bat flighting right as much as my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful celebrity scuttled out of the way into foul area as the baseball bat bounded behind 3rd foundation, and it took him a minute to regroup. Yet the play had not been lifeless, and also catcher Austin Wells made a simple throw to third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez prior to he could respond to the bag.Rodru00edguez stated he thought the play mored than given that the baseball bat went soaring." After I saw the baseball bat I believed it was actually heading to be a lifeless play, and after that they were actually visiting get the bat as well as I was actually mosting likely to go back to third," Rodru00edguez stated. "I fled and also turned my back to the field and I heard [third foundation trainer] Manny [Acta] shouting, 'Return to third.' That's when I got back to third." In all honesty, at that moment I wasn't definitely thinking of the game, simply trying to avoid the bat coming at me. That's what took place. That was actually a very first for me, for sure." Hamilton began Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's mistake happened a night after Winner Robles made the dubious decision to try swiping house in the first inning against The big apple while Turner was at the plate along with a 3-0 count and also the manners loaded. Robles was actually out and the Yankees rolled to a quick and easy victory.This defeat was extra frustrating for Seattle as each Houston and also Minnesota lost earlier Wednesday, indicating the Mariners missed a chance to make up needed to have ground in the AL West and also wild-card ethnicities. Seat is five games back of first-place Houston in the branch as well as three behind Minnesota for the last AL wild-card location." Everything happened fast as well as again, merely very reactionary," Wilson pointed out. "I assume our experts 'd all hop off the beaten track. However merely unfavorable it ended up by doing this.".