Florida Marlins manager Edwin Rodriguez (36) argues with plate umpire Ted Barrett after a fan interfered with an eighth-inning, two-run RBI double by Rays' Sean Rodriguez during an interleague baseball game Friday. Rodriguez resigned his position over the weekend as the Marlins have won only one game in June.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Edwin Rodriguez forsees a bright future for the Florida Marlins. He just won’t be on the bench to see it.

Rodriguez, the first Puerto Rican-born manager in major league history, unexpectedly resigned Sunday after less than one year on the job.

Bench coach Brandon Hyde managed the last-place Marlins as they dropped their 10th straight game, 2-1 to the Tampa Bay Rays. But the club will begin a search for an interim manager and potential candidates include 80-year-old Jack McKeon, the special assistant to the owner who led Florida to a World Series title in 2003.

“It was a tough day,” an emotional Hyde said. “Edwin talked to the staff this morning. It’s been a roller-coaster, let’s put it that way, the past few weeks. It’s disappointing. Edwin is a good man and a good manager. I thought our guys handled it well.”

Hyde said the Marlins have not addressed any future plans with him. He was also unaware that Rodriguez was planning to step down.

“I’m the bench coach right now filling in for whatever happens,” Hyde said. “I’m going to do my job. We don’t know what’s going to happen.”

Rodriguez said it was difficult to leave, given the “positive way the organization is moving, a new ballpark next season and the young core of players.”

“I can’t say enough about the effort that this staff and these players have put into this season,” he said in a statement released by the team. “I could tell that they continued to give 100 percent effort each and every day on the field. I wish this organization and players nothing but success in their futures.”