Fans arrived early. Not to watch Seahawks warm-ups, but to watch the Mariners on the big-screen scoreboard.

Football fans, Seattle fans, the Pacific Northwest’s fans, cheered Julio Rodriguez’s home run early in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series in Toronto, the television broadcast of which the Seahawks were showing on the Lumen Field scoreboard on this Monday night like no other in the PNW.

Gasps filled the football stadium during play midway through the second quarter of the Seahawks’ game against the Houston Texans. Fans watching baseball on their phones from their football seats saw the Mariners’ Eduard Bazardo give up the decisive, three-run home run by Toronto’s George Springer in the seventh inning. That ultimately sent the Blue Jays, not the historic Mariners, to t

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