Seahawks announce a changed game time for Sunday if Mariners host playoff Game 4 that day

Like a good neighbor, the Seahawks care.

Seattle’s NFL team announced it will move the start time of its home game Sunday at Lumen Field against the Arizona Cardinals to 2:30 p.m. if the Mariners are hosting a American League Division Series fourth game next door at T-Mobile Park that afternoon.

If the Mariners defeat the Astros either Thursday in game two of their baseball playoffs in Houston or in Game Three Saturday afternoon in Seattle, there will be a Game Four Sunday at 12:07 p.m. at T-Mobile Park. The Seahawks will then move their game start from the scheduled 1:05 p.m. back 85 minutes, to 2:30.

The Mariners trail their best-of-five series with Houston 1-0.

The Seahawks game will still be televised regionally in the Pacific Northwest and in Arizona on Fox.

The thinking is a 2:30 start would get later-arriving Seahawks fans into their stadium likely before the Mariners game would be ending. Any later and a convergence of incoming Seahawks fans and outgoing Mariners fans into the SoDo section of downtown would be a chaotic traffic nightmare.

The Seahawks and Mariners seek to avoid playing at the same time, with the help of NFL and Major League Baseball scheduling, so as to not pack more than 100,000 fans into the same three-block radius downtown Seattle at the same hour.

Two MLB sources told The News Tribune on Monday the two teams have agreed a Mariners home playoff game takes priority in such cases.

Carroll and his players have been following the Mariners’ first postseason in 21 years.

Wide receiver DK Metcalf wore a Mariners T-shirt with caricatures of his friend Julio Rodriguez, plus Mitch Haniger, Ty France and J.P. Crawford on it last week to a Seahawks press conference.

Carroll said Monday his team watched the Mariners’ wild-card series-clinching win at Toronto Saturday afternoon into evening in the Seahawks’ hotel in New Orleans.

They lost to the Saints there Sunday.