After the game, Rodríguez explained that, in the moment, his instinct was to get out of the way out of the bat. He did think, however, that third-base umpire Jeremy Rehak would rule it to be a dead ball, making his excursion away from the bag a non-issue.

A flying bat helped the Yankees clinch a playoff spot on Wednesday night at T-Mobile Park. Anthony Rizzo, who had two hits and two RBIs, drove in Jasson Dominguez with a double to give the Yankees a 2-1 lead, which they did not relinquish.

The Seattle Mariners are in the thick of a hyper-competitive AL Wild Card race, but they've had two baserunning blunders to forget against the Yankees. The first was Victor Robles trying to steal home on a 3-0 count earlier this week.

The Seattle Mariners got two home runs from Julio Rodriguez and another long ball form Josh Rojas en route to an 8-2 win against the Texas Rangers on Friday.

Logan Gilbert allowed two runs pitching into the sixth inning and reached the 200-strikeout mark for the season, J.P. Crawford had a key two-out RBI single as part of Seattle’s three-run first inning,