The Mariners’ American League West title is doubtlessly inflicting scheduling points for the Seahawks that might lead to a modified kickoff time for at the very least one house sport and probably two, Seattle officers advised ESPN.
Each of the Seahawks’ subsequent two house video games — Oct. 5 in opposition to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Oct. 20 versus the Houston Texans for “Monday Evening Soccer” — are days when the Mariners may very well be internet hosting playoff video games.
The infrastructure of the world surrounding the Mariners’ T-Cellular Park and the Seahawks’ Lumen Subject — that are virtually subsequent door to one another, a mere one-tenth of a mile aside — is just not designed to assist two video games performed on the similar time and would create logistical points that embrace a chaotic site visitors state of affairs together with overcrowding.
Due to this fact, if the 2 video games in Seattle wind up being scheduled for a similar time — a call that Main League Baseball should first make — adjustments to the Seahawks’ schedule may need to be made.
MLB officers aren’t anticipated to resolve till Friday when the Mariners will begin their AL Division Sequence subsequent Sunday in Seattle. However on that very same day, the Seahawks are scheduled to host the Buccaneers at 1:05 p.m. native time.
If the Mariners are also scheduled to play on the similar time, the Seahawks might push again their kickoff wherever from 90 to 150 minutes, in line with Seattle officers.
There’s a related however much less possible state of affairs that might play out on Oct. 20, when Sport 7 of the AL Championship Sequence is scheduled to be performed. The Seahawks are set to host the Texans at 7 p.m. native time within the second sport of a “Monday Evening Soccer” doubleheader on ESPN.
Loads has to occur to even get to that time, but when the Mariners in some way wind up internet hosting Sport 7 of the ACLS, the sport possible must begin someplace round 4:30 p.m. native time, with the Seahawks kicking off some 150 minutes later, in line with metropolis officers.
These aren’t widespread situations however ones for which each groups and metropolis officers have mentioned and deliberate.
In October 2022, the Seahawks and the Mariners had been in peril of taking part in on the similar time attributable to a possible Sport 4 within the Mariners’ playoff collection in opposition to the Houston Astros. On the identical day, the Seahawks had been scheduled to play a sport at 1:05 p.m. native time in opposition to the Arizona Cardinals that the Seahawks had been making ready to push again 85 minutes, to a 2:30 begin. However the Mariners’ collection did not final lengthy sufficient, and a battle subsequently was prevented.
Now, there are two potential conflicts looming in a yr during which the Mariners gained their first division title since 2001, when the Seahawks nonetheless performed within the AFC.
T-Cellular Park and Lumen Subject are located within the metropolis’s SoDo neighborhood. Lumen Subject is an all-purpose stadium that is also house to the Seattle Sounders FC of Main League Soccer and the Seattle Reign FC of the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League.
