.Sep 19, 2024, 02:48 AM ETSEATTLE-- With their playoff opportunities escaping, the Seattle Mariners found a painful brand new method to lose.A zooming baseball bat. A brief memory oversight. And also an unusual double play." I do not believe I have actually ever found that before in a video game. Simply an odd situation," Seat manager Dan Wilson said.Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Mariners fell to the New york city Yankees 2-1 in 10 innings Wednesday night, yet it was actually how the bottom of the 10th played out that will certainly be always remembered in Mariners folklore as another phase in a season that has gone awry.With joggers at the corners, Julio Rodru00edguez was actually picked off 3rd base after evading a soaring baseball bat that slipped out of the palms of Randy Arozarena when he headed moving." I have actually talked to a handful of guys and all of all of them pointed out, 'I have actually never seen that on a baseball field,'" Rodru00edguez said.Seattle tracked 2-1 when Cal Raleigh's leadoff single in the 10th state-of-the-art Rodru00edguez, the automatic runner, coming from keystone to third. Ian Hamilton fanned Arozarena along with a 2-2 slider, and his baseball bat went sailing out of his hands.Right at Rodru00edguez's head." Honestly, I found the bat piloting right up to my face," Rodru00edguez said.Seattle's youthful star scampered out of the way into repulsive area as the baseball bat jumped behind third bottom, and also it took him an instant to regroup. But the play wasn't dead, and catcher Austin Wells made a quick throw to 3rd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., shooting Rodru00edguez prior to he might return to the bag.Rodru00edguez mentioned he assumed the play was over because the baseball bat went soaring." After I observed the baseball bat I presumed it was heading to be a dead play, and then they were going to grab the baseball bat and also I was visiting return to third," Rodru00edguez pointed out. "I escaped as well as transformed my spine to the field as well as I heard [3rd base instructor] Manny [Acta] shouting, 'Respond to 3rd.' That is actually when I responded to 3rd." In all honesty, at that moment I wasn't definitely thinking about the video game, just making an effort to escape the bat coming at me. That's what took place. That was a first for me, without a doubt." Hamilton began Justin Turner to end it, clinching a playoff berth for the Yankees.Rodru00edguez's blunder came an evening after Victor Robles created the questionable choice to try swiping home in the initial inning against New York while Turner went to the plate along with a 3-0 matter and the bases loaded. Robles was actually out as well as the Yankees rolled to a very easy victory.This defeat was even more frustrating for Seattle as each Houston as well as Minnesota lost earlier Wednesday, implying the Mariners missed out on an odds to comprise needed to have ground in the AL West and wild-card ethnicities. Seat is 5 video games rear of first-place Houston in the branch and three behind Minnesota for the final AL wild-card spot." All of it occurred quick and also again, merely really reactionary," Wilson said. "I think our company will all jump off the beaten track. Yet just unfortunate it found yourself this way.".