SAN JOSE — The San Jose Earthquakes overcame a two-goal deficit to take the lead on Saturday night, but the game against Houston at PayPal Park ended in a 3-3 draw after Griffin Dorsey scored in stoppage time for the Dynamo.
Dorsey ran onto a ball played backward by Franco Escobar and ripped a one-touch shot that deflected off defender Dave Romney into the net to cap the scoring.
“I give our players a lot of credit for coming back down from two goals and basically have the game won at the end,” Earthquakes coach Bruce Arena said. “We didn’t manage the game very well at the end.”
The Earthquakes haven’t lost in their past seven matches across all competitions.
Ezequiel Ponce opened the scoring in the 31st minute, heading home a first-touch cross played by Dorsey and Felipe Andrade’s header in the 50th gave Houston (4-6-5) a 2-0 lead. Ondrej Lingr entry pass from the right side was deflected by San Jose’s Vítor Costa but Andrade pushed it inside the left post.
Preston Judd came on in the 64th minute, replacing Hernán López, and scored in the 66th and again in the 72nd — heading a perfectly-placed ball-in played by Ian Harkes into the top-left corner of the goal — to make it 2-2.
“I think we’re trying to build our culture to never say die,” Judd said. “We were down 2-0 and nobody really stopped believing. The result feels like a loss after the tie after we went up 3-2, but I think it’s a good learning point and to know we’re always in the game.”
Daniel Munie scored his first career goal in MLS to give the Earthquakes (5-6-4) their first lead in the 76th minute. Ian Harkes lofted an entry pass from near the left sideline and Munie put away a leaping header.
The Quakes visit the Los Angeles Galaxy on Wednesday.