Two leg playoffs, gotta love them. In one sense they create an incentive for each team to try to get a result in the first game, on the other it gives the winning team in leg one an excuse to park the bus. Luckily the conference semi-finals had an exciting round of second leg games. Parking the bus wasn’t an option for most teams and it wouldn’t have worked for the Columbus Crew anyway.
Here are how a selection of Yanks did in the long weekend of games.
We start at the top with the second leg of the insufferable hipster derby between the Portland Timbers and the Seattle Ruidiaz-Lodeiros.