PORTLAND — For about 50 minutes, the Seattle Sounders played about as well as they had all year. They had opened the scoring with a well-worked goal from Cristian Roldan in the 22nd minute and then added another with an even better goal off the foot of Raúl Ruidíaz right after halftime.
But as you’d expect, the Portland Timbers were committed to making the Sounders work for their first win in nearly a month. They pulled one back on a somewhat fluky goal in the 54th minute and spent the better part of the next 40 minutes doing everything but score a goal.