Giants-Mariners postponed due to air quality concerns

General view of T-Mobile Park during the first inning of a game between the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics. Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports

Giants-Mariners game postponed due to air-quality concerns

By Zac Wassink | Last updated Sep 15, 2020 5:05 PM ET

Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports reported that Tuesday's scheduled game between the San Francisco Giants and Seattle Mariners won't happen at Seattle's T-Mobile Park due to air quality concerns caused by wildfires on the West Coast.

Pavlovic added that the Giants will head back to San Francisco, and the teams will instead play at Oracle Park later this week. San Francisco and Seattle were originally set to play each other on Tuesday and Wednesday for a two-game series. Both teams have Thursday off.

Giants and Mariners will play at Oracle Park instead. No official word yet, but Giants are traveling later today, so assume the games are tomorrow or tomorrow and Thursday. Both teams are off Thursday.
— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) September 15, 2020

Monday's doubleheader between the Oakland Athletics and Seattle was played in eerie conditions as smoke hovered over the ballpark throughout both games.

.@KLew_5 did THAT pic.twitter.com/wA2qvMMthL
— Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) September 15, 2020

While the San Francisco 49ers were able to host the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday, a National Women's Soccer League match between the Portland Thorns and OL Reign has twice been pushed back because of worries over air quality.

Zac Wassink

Zac Wassink is a longtime sports news writer and PFWA member who began his career in 2006 and has had his work featured on Yardbarker, MSN, Yahoo Sports and Bleacher Report. He is also a football and futbol aficionado who is probably yelling about Tottenham Hotspur at the moment and who chanted for Matt Harvey to start the ninth inning of Game 5 of the 2015 World Series at Citi Field. You can find him on X at @ZacWassink

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