If you’ve felt like the building itself has been doing some of the heavy lifting this year, you’re not imagining it. October in Seattle has a sound, more thunderclap than ballpark murmur, and the Mariners have learned how to weaponize it.
The big moments don’t just happen at T-Mobile Park; they accelerate there. Pitchers get a little extra ride, bats stay in the zone a blink longer, and 90 feet can feel like 30 when 40,000 people are vibrating the concourses. It’s not mysticism. It’s home-field advantage functioning exactly by design.
Here’s the number that turns the volume knob even higher.