Fanendo Adi scores twice, Timbers beat Earthquakes 3-1

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Fanendo Adi scored two second-half goals in the Portland Timbers' 3-1 victory over the San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday night.

Jack McInerney opened the scoring in the 52nd minute. After making a sliding tackle to prevent San Jose from clearing the ball, he immediately got up and took a hard rolling shot that slid under onrushing goalkeeper David Bingham for his third goal of the season.

''I just saw the ball in front of me, the defender between me and the goal, and I knew if I could win the ball, I'd be in on goal. I just got stuck in, the ball fell in front of me, easy finish,'' McInerney said.

Adi entered the match in the 63rd minute and doubled Portland's lead two minutes later. Diego Valeri's shot from the top of the penalty area was partially blocked, but bounced to Adi at the penalty spot and he lashed a right-footer shot past Bingham for his fifth goal.

''The plan was to start with Jack, and then bring Adi on fresh, and I thought it worked,'' Portland coach Caleb Porter said.

''I thought Adi's insertion into the game was really beneficial for them, even though it came off an injury,'' San Jose coach Dominic Kinnear said. ''So he came in and made them a little more dangerous.''

San Jose pulled within one in the 90th minute on Chris Wondolowski's penalty after Nat Borchers fouled Wondolowski in the Portland penalty area. Then a scuffle between Bingham and Valeri in stoppage time earned both players yellow cards. That was Valeri's second yellow card of the game, earning him a red card and leaving Portland with 10 players for the remainder of the game.

The Timbers sealed it late in stoppage time when Lucas Melano streaked into the San Jose area and rolled a pass across goal for Adi to tap in for his second of the night.

Portland ended a five-game winless streak to improve to 2-3-2. San Jose dropped to 3-2-2.

''Yeah, I'm disappointed. I thought we played pretty good. The first half, we looked really good. Our movement was good,'' Kinnear said. ''I thought we had a good enough team on the field to get something. I thought we played well enough to get something. But that's the way soccer goes sometimes.''

Portland, already missing Darlington Nagbe and Liam Ridgewell to injuries, and Dairon Asprilla only healthy enough for a spot on the bench, lost two more players to injury. Goalkeeper Adam Kwarasey left in the 50th minute with a hand injury, and midfielder Darren Mattocks was substituted in the 63rd minute with an apparent head injury after a collision with San Jose defender Victo Bernardez.

''Other teams get injuries. It seems like we're getting more than we have in the past. But, like I said, this was a gut-check game and we went with some different guys and they responded,'' Porter said. ''Weaker teams, physically or mentally, would have been able to do that. So I was real proud of the guys.''