Somewhere in the cosmos, there exists an alternate timeline in which the snowstorm that hit the Rockies in late April arrived a couple days later. The Seattle Sounders, in the midst of their best start in history, easily beat the woeful Colorado Rapids.
Alas, that is not the timeline in which we exist. That game, originally scheduled for April 23, was instead moved to one of the few available weekends, Sept. 7. It was available because the Sounders had tried to clear their schedule of matches during FIFA windows. But even they probably didn’t foresee having 10 players absent, two missing due to long-term injury and one more suspended.