Raul Ruidiaz scored the lone goal and the Seattle Sounders recorded back-to-back wins for the first time in the 2022 MLS season after a 1-0 victory over the host Houston Dynamo on Wednesday night.

Stefan Frei made three saves while recording his first shutout of the season for the Sounders (4-5-1, 13 points), who are finding their stride after winning the prestigious CONCACAF Champions League title earlier this month.

Steve Clark made three saves for Houston (4-5-3, 15 points), which is 1-4-1 over its last six matches.

The Dynamo played a man short for 28 minutes in the second half after Adalberto Carrasquilla was given a red card and ejection for drawing his second yellow card of the match in the 54th minute.

But Seattle’s Alex Roldan was carded for tripping in the 82nd minute. That was his second yellow of the match to earn the red and an ejection, leaving the two sides playing 10-on-10 for the final eight minutes of regulation and three stoppage-time minutes.

The Dynamo held a 14-9 edge in shots but the Sounders put four on target to Houston’s three.

The Sounders took the lead in the 28th minute. The sequence began with Jordan Morris to the left of the net, passing the ball through the goal mouth to Roldan on the right. Ruidiaz was nearby and received the pass from Roldan and kicked a close-range right-footer that caromed off the leg of Clark and hit the right goal post before finding the net for his second goal of the season.

Houston had a solid chance to knot the score in the 78th minute but Tyler Pasher’s hard left-footed boot sailed over the crossbar.

Seattle nearly took a 2-0 lead in the 90th minute but Will Bruin’s header was wide to the right.

In the first half, Houston’s Darwin Quintero had two solid chances. His left-footed blast in the 14th minute was too high and his close-range shot in the 23rd minute was saved by Frei.

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Robin Lod scored in the 87th minute as Minnesota United rallied for a 1-1 draw with the LA Galaxy on Wednesday night in Saint Paul, Minn.

Lod connected on a sliding left-footed shot from the top of the center of the box off a crossing pass from D.J. Taylor for his team-leading fifth goal of the season.

The goal came just four minutes after Sacha Kljestan scored on a penalty shot to give LA a 1-0 lead. The score came after a video replay showed that Minnesota United defender Michael Boxall had deflected Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez’s header in the middle of the box with his left arm for a penalty. Kljestan then fired a right-footed shot into the left corner of the net.

Jonathan Bond made six saves for the Galaxy (6-4-2, 20 points) who were outshot 17-12 including 8-4 in shots on goal.

Dayne St. Clair finished with three saves for Minnesota United (4-5-3, 15 points), which had a three-match losing streak snapped.

Minnesota United, trying to bounce back from a 3-1 loss at Seattle on Sunday, outshot the Galaxy, 12-2, in a scoreless first half and had a 4-1 edge in shots on goal.

Both teams had excellent scoring chances in the first five minutes.

Minnesota defender Bakaye Dibassy flicked a header after an Emanuel Reynoso corner kick just over the crossbar by the near post in the fourth minute.

Just a minute later, Rayan Raveloson of the Galaxy had a straight-on, right-footed shot from inside the box that St. Clair deflected over the crossbar with both hands.

Bond also stopped a Taylor header in the 19th minute off a Franco Fragapane cross, and came up with a big save on a Lod left-footed attempt from the center of the box in the 37th minute.

The Loons also had two other good scoring chances in the half, but Bongokuhle Hlongwane twice fired just wide of the net on right-footed tries.

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The Philadelphia Union continues to keep things even, playing to a 0-0 tie with visiting Inter Miami CF on Wednesday for their fifth-consecutive tied game.

Union goalkeeper Andre Blake made two saves, while Inter Miami goalie Drake Callender had eight saves.

The Union’s streak of five-consecutive ties goes back to a 1-1 deadlock with CF Montreal on April 23. The club followed that with three more ties to open May, the most recent Saturday by a 1-1 score against the rival New York Red Bulls.

With an 0-1-5 mark over their last six games, the Union (5-1-6, 21 points) have not won an MLS game since a 1-0 home victory over the Columbus Crew on April 9. They were shut out for the first time this season.

Inter Miami (3-6-3, 12 points) played to their second-consecutive tie after finishing in a 2-2 deadlock with D.C. United on Saturday. Inter Miami is 0-2-2 since producing a three-game winning streak last month for their only victories of the season.

Inter Miami leading scorer Leonardo Campana had a quality scoring chance in the 21st minute after a Union turnover, but he hit the left post with a low shot.

The short-handed Union could not find enough offense without forwards Julian Carranza and Mikael Uhre. Carranza, who is on loan to Philadelphia from Inter Miami, was not available due to terms of the loan. Uhre was out for the third-consecutive game with a quadriceps injury.

The Union also were without midfielder Jose Martinez, who was suspended for the game because of yellow-card accumulation.

The Union’s Daniel Gazdag had a quality scoring chance in the 84th minute, but his deflected shot was saved on the far post by Callender.

Philadelphia remained unbeaten at home this season (3-0-4) and is the only Eastern Conference club to have given up single-digit goals so far this season with nine allowed. Inter Miami is now 1-4-1 on the road.

–Field Level Media

Patryk Klimala scored in the first minute of second-half stoppage time as the New York Red Bulls remained winless at home but rallied for a 3-3 draw with the Chicago Fire in an action-packed contest Wednesday night in Harrison, N.J.

Klimala scored his third goal this season against Chicago when he got a pass from Omir Fernandez and slipped through the center of the box. Klimala then finished it off by blasting a left-footed shot into the center of the net for his fourth goal of the season.

Klimala’s goal occurred two minutes after Xherdan Shaqiri gave Chicago a 3-2 lead with a left-footed shot from the middle of the box that went into the bottom left corner.

The Red Bulls (5-2-5, 20 points) are just 0-2-4 at home but improved to 2-0-4 in their past six games.

Lewis Morgan and Cameron Harper also scored for the Red Bulls, who rallied late for the second time this season against Chicago (2-5-5, 11 points)

Chris Mueller and Wyatt Omsberg also scored for Chicago, which is 0-5-3 in its past eight games.

New York goalie Carlos Coronel made three saves while Chicago’s Gabriel Slonina stopped one shot.

New York took a 1-0 lead in the 20th minute when Morgan converted a penalty kick by burying a right-footed shot over Slonina that wound up in the bottom right corner.

Mueller leveled the game with a spectacular individual move. He corralled the ball while being surrounded by four defenders, made a move around New York’s Tom Edwards and blasted a right-footed shot well over Coronel’s head into the top right corner.

The Fire dominated in the opening minutes of the second half and took a 2-1 lead four minutes in when Omsberg slipped past Fernandez and headed the ball into the net from the left side of the box after getting a headed pass by Jhon Duran.

Chicago’s lead lasted nine minutes, until Harper got a soft pass from Fernandez at the left side of the box and scored on a right-footed shot when Slonina whiffed on the leaping save, allowing the ball to reach the center of the net.

–Field Level Media