Mariners’ playoff video games might alter Seahawks’ kickoff instances

The Mariners‘ American League West title is probably inflicting scheduling points for the Seahawks that might lead to a modified kickoff time for not less than one house sport and probably two, Seattle officers advised ESPN.

Each of the Seahawks’ subsequent two house video games — Oct. 5 towards the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Oct. 20 versus the Houston Texans for “Monday Evening Soccer” — are on days when the Mariners may very well be internet hosting playoff video games.

The infrastructure of the world surrounding the Mariners’ T-Cell Park and the Seahawks’ Lumen Subject — that are virtually subsequent door to one another, a mere one-tenth of a mile aside — isn’t designed to assist two video games performed on the identical time and would create logistical points that embrace a chaotic site visitors scenario together with overcrowding.

Subsequently, if the 2 video games in Seattle wind up being scheduled for a similar time — a choice that Main League Baseball should first make — adjustments to the Seahawks’ schedule may need to be made.

MLB officers will not be anticipated to determine till Friday when the Mariners will begin their AL Division Collection 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 identical time, the Seahawks may push again their kickoff anyplace from 90 to 150 minutes, in accordance with Seattle officers.

There’s a comparable however much less possible state of affairs that might play out on Oct. 20, when Recreation 7 of the AL Championship Collection 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 someway wind up internet hosting Recreation 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 accordance with metropolis officers.

These will not be widespread eventualities 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 identical time because of a possible Recreation 4 within the Mariners’ playoff sequence towards the Houston Astros. On the identical day, the Seahawks had been scheduled to play a sport at 1:05 p.m. native time towards the Arizona Cardinals that the Seahawks had been getting ready to push again 85 minutes, to a 2:30 p.m. begin. However the Mariners’ sequence did not final lengthy sufficient and a battle subsequently was averted.

Now, there are two potential conflicts looming in a yr by which the Mariners received their first division title since 2001, when the Seahawks nonetheless performed within the AFC.

T-Cell Park and Lumen Subject are located within the metropolis’s SoDo neighborhood. Lumen Subject is an all-purpose stadium that is also house to Main League Soccer’s Seattle Sounders FC and the Seattle Reign FC of the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League.