Dayne St. Clair scored and Andrew Thomas hit the crossbar in a penalty-kick shootout that was decided by the goalkeepers in the 11th round, and Minnesota United staged a short-handed rally to beat the Seattle Sounders on Saturday in the rubber match of the best-of-three first-round series for the MLS Cup after a 3-3 tie in regulation

Thomas, who replaced starter Stefan Frei in the 89th minute with a shootout looming, appeared to injure a finger on a miss by Joaquín Pereyra to begin the shootout. He finished with a heavily-taped hand.

The fifth-seeded Sounders got off to an even faster start in the rubber match than they did in a 4-2 victory at home — when Obed Vargas scored in the 8th minute to give them a lead they never relinquished on Monday.

This time Albert Rusnák used assists from

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