Here's my game story. Here's the version from The Denver Post.

Just as there are good witches and bad witches, there also are good draws and bad draws. This strikes me as a pretty good draw, as the Sounders get a point while coming from behind at high altitude with 75 percent of its starting midfield missing. And that point keeps them alone in second place in the West, ahead of the Dynamo and Rapids. And they lost no ground to Chivas.

And when I got down to the Sounders locker room, that seemed to be their attitude, too.

"Like a win, almost," James Riley said. "We had a chance to win it at the end, and we almost clould have lost that game. Kasey made two out-of-this-world saves to keep us in the game and we kept battling and grinding away and those are the results that you have to grind out and these points will come to fruition at the end of the season."

Coach Sigi Schmid had much the same attitude, and also was eager to praise Keller's performance.

“Kasey Keller played very well in the first half and kept us in the game with some very big saves,” Schmid said. “… That’s a big change when you’ve got an entirely new midfield that’s playing together for the first time. I thought we were a little disjointed in the first half – our wide midfielders were a little too wide, so we gave them a lot of space. We knew they were a very direct team, and they got in behind us quite a few times. The second half, I thought we played a little bit better even though we gave up that early goal.”

Seattle's tying goal came in the 76th minute when Riley made a steal that the Rapids thought was a handball. However, there was no whistle. And while the Rapids complained, Riley pushed forward.

“It was more ball-to-arm, to be honest,” he said. “It was pretty high, so it’s one of those that gets played. You’ve still got to complete the play. I kept playing it.”

Riley sent a cross into the penalty area, where Montero won it and headed it down to Nate Jaqua, who notched his second goal of the season.

“Right place at the right time,” Jaqua said. “But it feels good to get the back of the net.”

Seattle's fourth straight draw leaves them with a 4-2-4 record, which keeps them ahead of Houston (4-2-3) and Colorado (3-2-4) in the standings.

As for that mile-high altitude, none of the Sounders reported much of a problem with that either.

“It wasn’t actually too bad, I didn’t think,” Riley said. “They’re just a good team in general; so our spacing was a bit off, and I think we ran a bit more than we wanted to. But I’ve definitely played here where it’s 10 times worse. I thought it was all right.”

"I thought the last 10 or 15 minutes we were still running," Schmid said.

And as for all that nasty pre-game weather ... it went away. It was still raining a bit as I left the stadium, but the really bad stuff went through before the game and weather didn't seem to be much of a factor.

Here's a full game report, complete with stats.

The teams will see each other again Tuesday – closer to sea level. The Rapids will travel to Starfire Sports Stadium for a U.S. Open Cup play-in match at Starfire Sports Complex. The winner advances to the round of 16. (Last I heard, some tickets remain.) But Sigi had no interest in discussing that tonight.

Seattle will return to league play -- and Qwest Field -- Saturday against Sigi's old team, the Columbus Crew.

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I'm going to be talking Sounders with Ian Furness at 11:35 this morning on KRJ 950-AM.

You can also listen online at the KJR website.

The Sounders and Rapids kick off at 6:30 p.m. at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colo., a suburb northeast of Denver. The game will be shown on KONG 6/16. We'll keep our usual semi-running blog from the press box. I'll pop in with more on that this evening.

Meanwhile, here's my preview story from this morning's paper. The key issues covered are the mile-high elevation, the missing Sounders, and the interesting personnel links between the two rosters.

I haven't picked up a copy of the Denver Post yet, but here's a link to their Rapids coverage.

Some big thunderstorms passed through the area last night, but Saturday has begun with a calm, cool and cloudy morning. However, scattered storms are still in the forecast for today and tonight.

Elsewhere around the league, the big games seem to be Chivas USA at Kansas City and San Jose at Houston. The Dynamo -- like the Rapids -- can pull even with Seattle in the Western standings if the Sounders don't pick up at least a point tonight. Meanwhile, Chivas and the Wizards seems to be the MLS game of the week as Chivas has the league's best record and KC is just one point off the Eastern Conference lead. You can keep track of all the games at the MLS Match Center.