SEATTLE — Kevin Doyle scored on a counterattack in the 84th minute on Saturday night, boosting the Colorado Rapids past the Seattle Sounders, 1-0.
The Rapids (5-6-9, 24 points) not only won their third straight game, they came away from Seattle with a victory for the first time since the Sounders joined Major League Soccer in 2009. Colorado had been 0-8-1 at CenturyLink Field.
Seattle (10-9-2, 32 points) lost for the fifth in six games, and has been shut out in four of those.
Jared Watts started the scoring play by sending a long ball up the field. Doyle, the Irish international who joined the Rapids in March, caught up with it and got just enough space around Sounders defender Zach Scott to send a shot from inside the top left of the penalty area into the far side of the net.
It was Doyle’s second goal of the season.
Rapids goalkeeper Clint Irwin made three saves to pick up his seventh shutout of the year.
