“You can’t beat a Seattle summer.”
Ty France was talking postgame about how the balls were traveling in T-Mobile Park tonight, but any denizen of the Northwest knows what he means: it’s days like today, seventy and sunny with just a little bit of a cool breeze, when the air smells sweetly of saltwater and everyone in the city has a little extra skip in their steps: the payoff for what we wait for over nine months of rain and gray and more rain and more gray. While many other parts of the country are rounding into suffocating heat and humidity, this is where Seattle shines, with clear skies and warm sun and cool breezes off the water.