Julio Rodriguez apologized to Dan Wilson for his mistake, the Mariners manager said Thursday. “I really respect him for that, and we had a good conversation.”

The rightfielder slammed hard into the wall in foul territory pursuing a fly ball, but after several tense minutes stayed in the game.

Nobody in either clubhouse had ever seen it happen before. When the New York Yankees threw out the Seattle Mariners’ Julio Rodríguez at third base because Rodríguez forgot to return to the bag after nearly getting hit by a flying baseball bat,