Before the gates opened for Game 5 in the American League Division Series, T-Mobile Park is a stadium that sits in hushed anticipation. Every empty seat waiting to hold a story. And in that quiet, you can almost hear the great radio calls from legendary play-by-play announcer Dave Niehaus describing Ken Griffey Jr.’s two-run home runs, bringing back the ‘Old Time Religion’, or Randy “The Big Unit” Johnson striking out Tim Salmon to beat the Angels for the American League West Division title in 1995.

There’s a music to the stadium you can’t find anywhere else. A rhythm in the crowd, a crescendo of tension and joy that swells with every pitch. At T-Mobile, the noise combines into one beautiful melody, and hope rings louder than the roar itself.

There are so many memories I remembered while

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