Nothing is inevitable. It’s important to remember that, especially when talking about the actions of a group of players who needed to do something they likely had never seriously considered until the choice was foisted upon them.
Given how the events of Wednesday played out from a distance, it’s tempting to see it as an obvious choice, maybe even an easy choice for the Seattle Sounders not to play their game against the LA Galaxy. Theirs was the last game on the schedule that night and a couple others had already been called off.