Rafael Navarro scored his team lead-tying eighth goal of the season and Djordje Mihailovic had three assists to lift the Colorado Rapids to a 3-0 home victory over the suddenly sliding Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday night.

Calvin Harris scored early in the first half and Andreas Maxso found the net early in the second for the Rapids (8-10-5, 29 points), who scored three or more goals for the first time in 14 league matches, a stretch that extends back to mid-April.

Potential U.S. men’s national team World Cup goalkeeper Zack Steffen kept his fourth clean sheet and Colorado’s seventh in his first start since May 14. He was forced to miss the Gold Cup with the USMNT in June and July to undergo right meniscus surgery.

Vancouver’s Yohei Takaoka saved a late first-half penalty kick to prevent Navarro’s second goal of the night.

But that was the only real promising moment for the Whitecaps (11-5-5, 38 points), who have now lost four out of five after suffering just one defeat in their first 16 MLS games.

Vancouver’s American internationals Brian White and Sebastian Berhalter returned to MLS action from Gold Cup duty, but could not offer a boost for a side that slid down to third in the Western Conference table.

Harris opened the scoring in the 12th minute when Ted Ku-DiPietro’s incisive diagonal pass found Mihailovic in the left side of the penalty area.

Rather than take the shot, Mihailovic composed himself and played the square pass to his open teammate, who beat Takaoka to the bottom right corner.

Navarro scored his goal 18 minutes later. This time it was a sweeping move down the right before Mihailovic curled in an outswinging cross. The Brazilian striker reached out his right leg and poked it out of the air and inside the right post.

Navarro then grabbed the ball just before halftime after Berhalter’s foul gave the Rapids a chance to extend their lead from the spot, a surprise since Mihailovic had attempted all but one of Colorado’s previous six penalties.

Takaoka stood his ground then dove left to make the save and, for the moment, keep his team in the match.

But the Vancouver keeper should’ve done better on the Rapids’ third, when he failed to stop Maxso’s downward header off Mihailovic’s corner kick in the 60th minute.

–Field Level Media

Tani Oluwaseyi had a goal and two assists to help lead Minnesota United to a 4-1 victory over the San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday night in Saint Paul, Minn.

Kelvin Yeboah, Anthony Markanich and Joseph Rosales also scored goals for Minnesota United (11-4-7, 40 points), which jumped out to a 3-0 first-half lead en route to extending its unbeaten streak to four games (3-0-1).

Dayne St. Clair made three saves for the Loons, who swept the regular-season series with the Earthquakes. Minnesota also won 1-0 at San Jose on March 8.

Defender Bruno Wilson scored a goal and Daniel finished with two saves for San Jose (7-8-7, 28 points), which lost for the first time in five MLS matches (1-1-3).

Minnesota took a 1-0 lead in the third minute on Oluwaseyi’s ninth goal of the season. The score came off a corner kick to Robin Lod on the left side of the 6-yard box. Lod then did a flick-on header down to Oluwaseyi stationed in front of the goal, where he swung a left-footed shot into the left side of the net.

The Loons extended the lead to 2-0 in the 42nd minute thanks to Oluwaseyi’s curling cross pass from the left end line to Yeboah, who headed it inside the far-right post for his seventh goal.

Minnesota made it 3-0 just before halftime when Markanich extended his goal streak to three games, blasting a right-footed rebound from the middle of the box into the top right corner for his fifth goal.

San Jose got on the board in the 70th minute on Wilson’s right-footed shot into the middle of the net off a Preston Judd header pass on a corner kick.

Rosales scored his first goal of the season in the 95th minute on a 2-on-1 break with Oluwaseyi, slicing in a right-footed shot from the middle of the box off Oluwaseyi’s crossing pass.

–Field Level Media

Albert Rusnak had a goal and an assist as the Seattle Sounders built a three-goal halftime lead and held on to defeat host Sporting Kansas City 3-2 on Saturday night.

Jordan Morris and Jesus Ferreira also scored for Seattle (9-6-6, 33 points), which extended its MLS unbeaten streak to three matches (2-0-1). Goalkeeper Andrew Thomas, filling in for the injured Stefan Frei (concussion), made seven saves.

Dejan Joveljic and Santiago Munoz scored on penalty kicks in the second half for Sporting K.C. (6-11-5, 23 points).

John Pulskamp made four stops for SKC, which had its three-match unbeaten streak (2-0-1) snapped.

Morris, making his first start since March 1 because of a pair of hamstring injuries, opened the scoring in the 15th minute. He sent a pass to Paul Rothrock on the left wing and sprinted toward the net, taking a cross and heading it into the upper left corner of the net from 5 yards out. It was Morris’ 100th career goal contribution in MLS play (70 goals, 30 assists).

Rusnak nearly doubled the advantage in the 19th minute, but his 18-yard shot was cleared off the goal line by SKC defender Jansen Miller.

Rusnak did make it 2-0 in the 27th minute, converting a penalty kick after a video review determined Sporting’s Daniel Salloi committed a handball in the 18-yard box. Rusnak put his kick into the right side of the net as Pulskamp lunged the wrong way.

The Sounders extended their lead to 3-0 on a counterattack deep in first-half stoppage time. Morris, Ferreira and Rusnak charged forward on a three-on-two rush. Ferreira and Rusnak executed a give-and-go in the penalty area, with Ferreira blasting a 7-yard shot past Pulskamp.

Joveljic drew a penalty kick in the 67th minute when he was tripped by Seattle’s Danny Musovski just inside the top of the 18-yard box. It was the eighth consecutive match in which Joveljic had either a goal or an assist.

Joveljic nearly pulled the hosts within a goal in the 73rd minute, but his rebound attempt was cleared off the goal line by Sounders defender Alex Roldan after Salloi hit the right post.

Munoz was tripped in the penalty area in second-half stoppage time and converted the kick to make it 3-2.

–Field Level Media

Idan Toklomati scored early and Kerwin Vargas tallied late as Charlotte FC came away with a 2-0 victory against visiting New York City FC on Saturday night, winning for the first time in their past five matches.

Goalkeeper Kristijan Kahlina made three saves for the clean sheet.

Charlotte (9-11-2, 29 points) won for the first time since May 31 at Toronto FC. Unlike a week earlier in a 2-2 draw with Orlando, Charlotte protected a two-goal lead.

New York City (9-8-4, 31 points) was playing in the first of four consecutive road matches. The team remained winless in matches in Charlotte.

Matthew Freese, who just returned from a stint with the U.S. national team at the CONCACAF Gold Cup, made one save for NYC.

Toklomati’s goal came in the 14th minute, assisted by Pep Biel. The pass from Biel on the left side connected with Toklomati, who was cutting toward the center of the goal mouth.

It was the 20-year-old Toklomati’s fourth goal of the season, with three coming in a four-match span.

The third goal of the season for Vargas snapped his five-match scoreless stretch, finishing by turning and firing a shot from just inside the top of the box for a 2-0 lead in the 81st minute. It was quite an individual effort before Vargas first controlled the ball and was denied on an initial shot before trying again and converting.

The start of the match was delayed for nearly 90 minutes because of weather concerns.

–Field Level Media

Anders Dreyer recorded a first-half brace, and Western Conference-leading San Diego FC withstood a late charge from the Chicago Fire to win their fourth consecutive road match 2-1 on Saturday night.

Dreyer struck eight minutes into the match and again in the third minute of first-half stoppage time to give expansion San Diego (13-6-3, 42 points) a seemingly nice cushion.

However, after putting together several prime scoring chances that were thwarted by San Diego goalkeeper Pablo Sisniega (three saves), making his first MLS start since 2023, the Fire (8-9-4, 28 points) were finally rewarded through Hugo Cuypers’ right-footer off an 87th-minute corner.

But Chicago, which held an 18-7 overall shot advantage and did not concede a corner on the night, couldn’t level the match and fell to 2-4-4 at home.

San Diego blocked seven Fire shots on the evening.

Making his San Diego debut, Sisniega was tested early — notably pushing Brian Gutierrez’s point-blank chance just over the bar in the fourth minute.

San Diego, though, didn’t miss its opportunity to open the scoring four minutes later as Luca Bombino made a brilliant half-box pass through traffic to an unmarked Dreyer, who had time to position up close and easily convert the goal.

Chicago had a pair of solid scoring chances later in the half, particularly on Gutierrez’s blocked attempt in the 24th minute and Cuypers’ quality look that sailed high in the 37th.

But again, the Fire’s inability to score further bit them after Dreyer beautifully one-timed Chucky Lozano’s cross in front of the net just before the first-half whistle for his 11th league goal in 2025.

Chicago threatened in the 50th minute, but another open Gutierrez attempt was blocked. Twenty minutes later, Sisniega successfully dislodged the ball from a streaking Gutierrez in a one-on-one scenario.

However, Sisniega’s most impressive save of the night came in the 84th minute, in reactionary fashion, by two-handing Cuypers’ point-blank header off a corner.

San Diego has outscored its opponents 14-8 during that four-match MLS road winning streak.

–Field Level Media