If you like the Tacoma-to-Seattle express lane for baseball, another lane is being added to the fray.
In an unprecedented move between two different professional sports organizations, the Seattle Sounders and Tacoma Rainiers have agreed to become partners in the management of the Sounders’ developmental franchise – the Sounders 2.
That means the Sounders 2, who compete in the second-tier United Soccer League, will play their home matches at a not-yet-built 5,000-person stadium next to neighboring Cheney Stadium, where the Rainiers play their home baseball games.
“It is an honor that (the Sounders) want to work with us, and believe in our city and our franchise,” Rainiers president Aaron Artman said.