The MLS season is officially at the end of what was called “Phase One.” While we were originally supposed to end this after our game against Sporting Kansas City, numerous cases of COVID-19 has resulted in that game getting pushed back to October 21st and into the “Phase Two” of the 2020 schedule. With the Portland Timbers game also being postponed, we’re sure to have an even more compact end to the 2020 season than we expected.
Every year, I try and talk about the 10-game mark for the team. At roughly a third of the way into the season, it acts as a good checkpoint of the team: where trends can start to be inferred and the state of the team can be defined by multiple games as opposed to one-off games that can skew results.