The Seattle Sounders wrapped up their regular season with a trip to face New York City FC in much the same way that they’ve made their way through this entire season up until now: by overcoming adversity and finding a way to show their quality regardless of the circumstances. After the first half was largely marred by Pedro de la Vega falling victim to the demonic entity that is the temporary turf covering the infield at Citi Field, another in a devastatingly long line of injuries for de la Vega in his time as a Sounder, to say nothing of the list of injuries to other Sounders over the course of the year.

Despite that loss and the weight of emotions surrounding it, Seattle were able to ride a pair of set-piece goals to a 2-1 victory. Jordan Morris opened the scoring with a perfect header on an Albert Rusnák free kick to notch his first goal since returning from the shoulder injury that kept him off the field for two months. It was his first goal since July, one of the kinds of goals that fans and foes repeatedly seem to convince themselves that Morris doesn’t score, despite pretty...