Sept. 16 felt like many different Tuesday nights earlier than it in Seattle Sports.
Until it wasn’t.
It’s a testomony to the unimaginable sports scene in Seattle, that it is not unusual to have a number of main professional sports groups in motion on the similar night time.
To that finish, the Mariners continued their playoff push in Kansas City, the Storm fought with their season on the line in the WNBA playoffs, whereas the Sounders and Reign took to the pitch.
But this was a kind of days the place it was simply written in the stars that one thing particular was in the works. Like it was meant to be.
Heck, Seattle even tied a document excessive temperature of 91 levels. Like I mentioned, meant to be.
It began with Cal Raleigh, the Mariners’ slugging catcher who simply fully captured the coronary heart of the baseball world along with his house run smashing this summer time. From successful the Home Run Derby to main the Mariners to the brink of the postseason. On Tuesday, it was like magic.
In the third inning of a rout in opposition to the Royals, Cal drilled his fifty fifth house run, breaking the Major League Baseball document for many homers by a switch-hitter set in 1961 by Mickey Mantle. Incredible firm and what a feat to interrupt a 64-year-old document.
That, like so a lot of Cal’s 2025 milestones, was greater than sufficient.
But not for him.
The subsequent inning, Cal got here to the plate once more and hit his 56th house run. This time, he tied Ken Griffey, Jr. for the most house runs ever hit in a single season by a Mariner.
And he has 11 video games to interrupt that document. And it occurred the similar night time Dominic Canzone hit three house runs in the similar sport.
It all comes, in fact, with the Mariners being in their greatest playoff place this late in the season since 2001.
There was additionally the denial of history, a lot to our delight in Seattle.
The Seattle Storm, with its season at stake, beat the mighty Las Vegas Aces in Game 2 of their 1st spherical sequence in the WNBA playoffs.
The Aces got here into Tuesday night time’s sport driving an astonishing 17-game win streak, only one shy of the WNBA document.
But the Storm, regardless of dropping sport one to the Aces by 25 factors simply 48 prior, dug deep and discovered a technique to win.
Like we mentioned, one thing was in the air.
Skylar Diggins dropped 26 factors, together with the dagger in the closing 5 seconds, Nneka Ogwumike scored 24, whereas rookie Dominique Malonga had one other double-double with 11 factors and 10 rebounds, together with an enormous basket and foul in transition that put the Storm in entrance 84-83 with 30 seconds left in the sport.
(*16*) the streak, protecting their season alive, and forcing a winner-take-all Game 3.
This all occurred on a random Tuesday night time in September.
This is how particular Seattle sports actually are.
No Storm fan will ever neglect the night time they erased a double-digit result in prolong their season.
No Mariners fan will neglect Cal hitting two house runs, each with record-setting implications.
And it was all only a common Tuesday night time in Seattle sports.