The Major League Soccer playoff game on Thursday night had all the ingredients to be a memorable one. The Seattle Sounders-Portland Timbers rivalry is one of the fiercest in the league, and after a one-goal home victory by the Timbers in the first leg, both teams were feeling good about advancing.
And the game was memorable all right, just for a wholly unexpected reason.
Minutes from elimination, Seattle scored a late goal to forge a 2-1 victory in regulation time. Since that was the same score as in the first leg, tying the teams in the series aggregate, that sent the game into extra time.