The Seattle Sounders' march to the end of the season is starting resemble something akin to the last rites.
Again afforded the opportunity to help their own case for commutation, the Sounders couldn’t muster an argument — at least a convincing one — for why their playoff lives should be spared, managing only a 1-1 draw against FC Cincinnati at Lumen Field.
That the draw didn’t completely condemn the Sounders at this point is a minor miracle in and of itself, but the result leaves them on the brink, staring at a bleak fate that seems all the more inevitable by the day.