.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff odds slipping away, the Seat Mariners found a very painful new means to lose.A zooming bat. A momentary mind oversight. And a strange double play." I do not think I've ever before seen that prior to in an activity. Simply an odd situation," Seattle supervisor Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the The big apple Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday evening, however it was actually just how all-time low of the 10th participated in out that will be actually always remembered in Mariners tradition as an additional section in a period that has gone awry.With distance runners at the edges, Julio Rodru00edguez was picked off 3rd bottom after evading a soaring bat that unclothed the hands of Randy Arozarena when he headed moving." I have actually talked to a couple of guys plus all of them stated, 'I have actually never ever found that on a ball park,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle trailed 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff solitary 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 voyaging away from his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's scalp." Frankly, I viewed the baseball bat piloting right up to my skin," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful superstar scuttled out of the way in to filthy territory as the bat jumped responsible for third base, as well as it took him a moment to collect yourself. But the play had not been dead, and catcher Austin Wells made an easy toss to 3rd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., picking off Rodru00edguez just before he can respond to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he believed the play was over considering that the bat went soaring." After I saw the bat I believed it was mosting likely to be actually a dead play, and then they were visiting get the baseball bat and also I was visiting go back to third," Rodru00edguez claimed. "I got away as well as transformed my back to the industry as well as I listened to [3rd base coach] Manny [Acta] shouting, 'Respond to third.' That is actually when I responded to third." Frankly, at that moment I wasn't really thinking of the game, just trying to get away from the baseball bat coming at me. That's what happened. That was actually a 1st for me, for sure." Hamilton started out Justin Turner to finish it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's mistake came a night after Winner Robles made the suspicious choice to try taking house in the initial inning against New York while Turner went to home plate with a 3-0 matter and the manners filled. Robles was actually out as well as the Yankees rolled to an easy victory.This loss was actually more discouraging for Seat as each Houston and also Minnesota shed earlier Wednesday, implying the Mariners skipped a chance to comprise needed to have ground in the AL West as well as wild-card nationalities. Seattle is actually five video games back of first-place Houston in the department and also three behind Minnesota for the ultimate AL wild-card spot." It all occurred quickly and also once again, simply quite reactionary," Wilson mentioned. "I think we would certainly all dive out of the way. But merely unfavorable it wound up that way.".