Emanuel Reynoso scored a brace and Dayne St. Clair made five saves for his eighth clean sheet of the season as Minnesota United cruised to a 3-0 victory over the Colorado Rapids on Wednesday night in Saint Paul, Minn.

The two goals moved Reynoso into a tie with Darwin Quintero for most goals (27) in all competitions during the club’s MLS era (since 2017). Teemu Pukki also scored for Minnesota United (9-8-8, 35 points), which won for just the third time in 12 home matches this season.

Marko Ilic finished with four saves for Colorado (3-12-10, 19 points), which extended its winless streak to four matches (0-2-2).

The Loons took a 1-0 lead in the 18th minute on Reynoso’s left-footed penalty kick into the left corner of the net. Reynoso set up the score when he nutmegged midfielder Ralph Priso and then was dragged down by Priso just inside the left edge of the box for a penalty.

Reynoso made it 2-0 in the 28th minute with his sixth goal of the season. Ismael Tajouri-Shradi set up the score with a hard left-footed shot from outside the right side of the box that Ilic knocked away. However, Reynoso pounced on the rebound and easily tapped it inside the left post.

Colorado’s best scoring chance of the half came in the 38th minute when Andrew Gutman drove to the left side of the 6-yard box and fired a sharp-angle, left-footed shot toward the middle of the goal that St. Clair batted away.

Pukki then made it 3-0 five minutes later with his second goal of the season and first in front of the home crowd. The Finnish international took a through pass from Tajouri-Shradi at the top of the box and calmly slid a right-footed shot under Ilic.

Reynoso nearly got a hat trick in the 67th minute when he attempted an open left-footed shot from the top of the box that curled just wide of the right post.

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An early goal from Corey Baird and a late one from Ibrahim Aliyu helped Houston defeat Columbus 2-0 on Wednesday to extend the Dynamo’s home dominance over the Crew.

The Dynamo (11-10-5, 38 points) improved to 7-1-7 all time at home against Columbus.

Baird scored in the 14th minute and Ibrahim’s goal in the 90th minute was on a breakaway from a pass by Hector Herrera as the Crew (12-8-6, 42 points) pressed for the equalizer.

Steve Clark made three saves for his 11th MLS shutout of the season as the Dynamo won their third straight.

Columbus, which entered the match tied with St. Louis City for the most goals in MLS, was shut out for the second time this season. Patrick Schulte made four saves.

The Crew are 2-7-3 on the road.

The Crew made five lineup changes and looked the part with a disorganized first half and Houston made them pay for it.

Griffin Dorsey found Baird on a timed run that put him behind the back line in stride with only Schulte to beat. Schulte made the initial save with his right hand but Baird settled the rebound and calmly deposited it into the net for his seventh goal.

The lead nearly doubled at the 25-minute mark. Baird set up Franco Escobar on the left side of the box. Schulte made a save at the near post that bounced to Herrera, whose shot from 18 yards hit the crossbar.

Columbus came to life just before the break. Max Arfsten in the second minute of stoppage time forced a save by Clark at the bottom-left corner for the Crew’s first shot on goal and less than two minutes later Cucho Hernadez sent an open header off a corner kick over the bar.

The Crew didn’t have another chance until Hernandez had a redirect from 18 yards that Clark stopped.

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Brian White scored his team-leading 10th goal early in the first half, and the visiting Vancouver Whitecaps held on for a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Fire on Wednesday night.

Ryan Gauld became the Whitecaps’ all-time assists leader when he recorded his 23rd on White’s 19th-minute goal. That proved all Vancouver (10-8-7, 37 points) needed to post its first three-match, in-season, all-competitions road winning streak since 2015.

White, meanwhile, has scored in four straight MLS away matches for the Whitecaps, who posted their first clean sheet since May 20, while winning the first two on a stretch of seven consecutive road contests.

The Fire (8-10-8, 32 points), who entered just over the playoff line in the Eastern Conference, have totaled one goal during a three-match league losing streak.

Though Vancouver spent a significant amount of time in the Chicago final-third through the first 10 minutes, the home side generated the night’s best initial scoring chance. Off a pass from Brian Gutierrez, Kei Kamara was one-on-one with Whitecaps goalkeeper Yohei Takaoka, who punched his shot away, and kept the veteran forward from tying Landon Donovan for second on the MLS career goals list with 145.

In the 14th minute, Kamara missed another quality when his scissor attempt went high of the bar.

However, just five minutes later, Gauld streaked down the wing with the ball, then sent a tight cross in front of the net for White to just get across the goal line — after glancing the hand of Fire keeper Chris Brady.

The Whitecaps didn’t let up as Brady made a key save on a 28th-minute strike from Gauld, who also hit the post aiming at an open net one minute later. Gauld and White teamed up again in the 36th minute, but Brady got enough of his arm on the ball to stymie the latter’s shot.

Vancouver nearly gave Chicago a serious chance to equalize within the first 10 minutes of the second half, when a weird bounce of the ball almost stunned Takaoka.

The loss snapped Chicago’s 14-match regular-season, unbeaten home winning streak against Western Conference teams.

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Albert Rusnak was in the right place at the right time to score the deciding goal in the 90th minute as the visiting Seattle Sounders defeated Austin FC 2-1 on Wednesday in a key late-season Western Conference match.

The Sounders (11-9-7, 40 points) snapped a four-match MLS winless streak while extending Austin’s MLS skid to three matches and ending its home winning streak at three.

It was the second straight match in which Austin FC allowed the deciding goal in the 90th minute or later.

Rusnak netted the game-winner by kicking home the rebound of a shot by Obed Vargas that deflected off Austin defender Leo Vaisanen and to Rusnak’s foot Rusnak.

Jordan Morris put Seattle in front in the 48th minute. The U.S. international was positioned at the near post for a pass into the goalmouth by Nicolas Lodeiro that was missed by another Seattle player before finding its way to Morris’ left foot. The shot was almost a glancing blow and hit Austin goalkeeper Brad Stuver in the chest before trickling into the goal.

Austin (9-12-5, 32 points) answered on Sebastian Driussi’s goal in the 72nd minute. Driussi waited at the back post for a headed pass across the box from Gyasi Zardes after a corner kick. It was Driussi’s team-leading eighth goal of the season.

Both teams were active in the scoreless first half. Seattle had an excellent scoring chance in the 29th minute when Leo Chu ripped a shot that clanged off the left post after a pass from Morris.

Austin pressed for the lead in the 34th minute, producing back-to-back shots from Memo Rodriguez and Emiliano Rigoni that were saved by Stefan Frei. The Sounders goalie finished with five saves in the match.

Morris was turned away by Stuver at the center of the box in the 38th minute after a shot from close range.

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With incoming coach John Herdman in attendance, Toronto FC stunned the visiting Philadelphia Union 3-1 on Wednesday night.

Herdman watched from a suite as Toronto (4-13-10, 22 points) won for the first time since May 27 to snap an eight-match losing streak and an 11-match winless run. It marks the first time the Reds have earned points under interim coach Terry Dunfield, who replaced Bob Bradley at the end of June.

Philadelphia (13-8-4, 43 points) had its three-match winning streak end while allowing three goals for only the third time this season.

Lorenzo Insigne scored his first goal since June 10 to give Toronto a 1-0 lead in the 23rd minute. Jonathan Osorio intercepted a clearing attempt by Union defender Jakob Glesnes and sent a pass to Deandre Kerr. Kerr then found Insigne above the 6-yard box for a quick strike.

It gave the Reds their first lead in a match since June 24.

Julian Carranza brought Philadelphia level in the 45th minute. Mikael Uhre fed a cross toward the goal area, and Toronto goalkeeper Tomas Romero came off his line to try for the save. The ball bounced past Romero and fell to Carranza on the left side for the tap-in.

After both sides started slow in the second half, Toronto started to pull away.

In the 58th minute, Kerr put the Reds in front 2-1. Federico Bernardeschi collected a pass and brought it down low before dishing a bouncing cross through two Philadelphia defenders. It found Kerr in the middle of the box, where he managed to settle it and send it past goalkeeper Andre Blake.

Osorio made it 3-1 five minutes later when he headed in a pass from Kobe Franklin. It marked the first time since Sept. 4, 2022, that Toronto has scored at least three goals.

Bernardeschi came close to adding to the lead in the 65th minute, but his shot just missed past the right side. Two minutes later, Kerr nearly tallied his second goal of the match with a strike from the right, but he hit the far post.

Jack Elliott had a chance to cut the Union’s deficit in the 79th minute with a header off a corner, but his shot hit the crossbar.

Philadelphia’s Jesus Bueno, a 69th-minute substitute, received a straight red card in second-half stoppage time.

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Andres Jasson and Monsef Bakrar scored first-half goals to lead New York City FC to a 2-0 victory over visiting CF Montreal on Wednesday.

Jasson opened the scoring in the 30th minute. Some nice midfield passing from NYCFC set Jasson up with the ball, and Jasson then entered the box and found space for a well-placed shot into the top left corner of the net.

New York City (6-10-11, 29 points) struck again seven minutes later, when Birk Risa sent a long pass downfield to Bakrar as the forward entered the box. Bakrar outmaneuvered defender Joel Waterman to approach the net, and when Jonathan Sirois approached to challenge, Bakrar rolled the ball past the Montreal goalkeeper.

It was Bakrar’s first regular-season MLS goal since signing with New York City FC in July. Bakrar and Birk were two of several NYCFC acquisitions during the transfer window, as the team is still within range of the playoffs despite a lack of form over the past four months.

New York City FC won for just the second time in their past 18 regular-season matches (2-8-8), with both of those victories coming over CF Montreal. NYC also collected a 1-0 shutout in Montreal on July 1.

Wednesday’s loss snapped a three-match winning streak for CF Montreal (11-13-2, 35 points), and continued their longstanding struggles against NYCFC. Montreal is only 2-11-5 in all-time regular-season play against New York City and also took a playoff loss to NYCFC in last season’s Eastern Conference semifinals.

Making a rare start in place of regular NYCFC goalkeeper Luis Barraza, Matt Freese made three saves for his first clean sheet of the season.

Freese stopped Ariel Lassiter (63rd minute) and Mathieu Chouiniere (66th) during a stretch of pressure for CF Montreal in the second half, but the visitors had difficulty putting their chances on target throughout the game.

Lassi Lappalainen had perhaps Montreal’s best scoring opportunity in the 19th minute, on a shot that deflected off the top of the crossbar.

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Giacomo Vrioni scored just past the midway point of the first half and the New England Revolution held on for a 1-0 victory Wednesday over the visiting New York Red Bulls at Foxborough, Mass.

Earl Edwards Jr. made two saves for his first shutout in three starts as the Revolution (13-5-7, 46 points) won for the first time in four August matches across all competitions after going 3-1-2 in July. That lone defeat last month came by a 2-1 score on the road against the Red Bulls.

Edwards was in goal for New England after Djordje Petrovic moved to Chelsea of the English Premier League on Saturday via transfer.

Carlos Coronel made five saves for the Red Bulls (7-11-8, 29 points), who have failed to score in their past two games, falling 2-0 at home to Inter Miami on Saturday.

New England is 1-1-0 since MLS play resumed following Leagues Cup, while New York has gone 1-2-0.

The Revolution owned the run of play in the first half before finally scoring a goal. New England’s Matt Polster hit the crossbar with a left-footed shot in the 25th minute. Five minutes later, Vrioni delivered his sixth goal of the season.

A pass from Mark-Anthony Kaye sent Vrioni on a break as he scored with his left foot past Coronel into the bottom right corner of the goal. Kaye’s assist came in just his second regular-season game with the club and sixth game across all competitions.

The Revs recovered from a heartbreaking defeat Saturday on the road against CF Montreal, when they gave up the game’s only goal in the 86th minute.

In the defeat to the Red Bulls last month, the Revs thought they came away with a tie when Andrew Farrell scored three minutes into second-half stoppage time. But an offsides call negated the goal, and the point in the standings, with the Professional Referee Organization later determining that offsides should not have been called.

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