Hugo Cuypers scored for a 10th consecutive match and the Chicago Fire earned a 2-0 victory at CF Montreal on Saturday afternoon.

Cuypers took his MLS-leading total to 13 goals, two in front of Miami’s Lionel Messi and Dallas’ Petar Musa. They both play later this weekend.

Philip Zinckernagel added his fifth goal of the season early and assisted Cuypers’ late tally as the Fire (7-4-2, 23 points) posted their second away win in four days. Chris Brady made six saves to keep his and Chicago’s sixth clean sheet.

Montreal (4-8-1, 13 points) lost for the first time in five home matches under interim manager Philippe Eullaffroy.

The hosts held 56.8% of the possession and owned a 15-13 edge in shots, yet were shut out for the first time since a 3-0 loss on April 4 at New England.

Zinckernagel put Chicago in front in the 14th minute. Maren Haile-Selassie ran onto a long ball down the left, then played in a left-footed cross toward the penalty spot.

Montreal’s Brayan Vera reached it first and tried to clear, but the ball deflected off his teammate Jalen Neal and bounced toward the penalty arc. That’s where the late-arriving Zinckernagel met it with a first-time finish into the bottom left corner.

Brady was excellent to keep Chicago in front when it was 1-0, particularly after halftime. He denied Dawid Bugaj’s promising attempt from the center of the penalty area in the 56th minute, then in the 65th made an excellent double stop that included a reflexive denial of Noah Streit’s low, deflected shot through traffic.

The Fire had their second two minutes later. Haile-Selassie picked up a loose ball at the center circle and played it forward to Zinckernagel as Cuypers took off in front of him on a diagonal run.

Zinckernagel played it farther forward in time for Cuypers to remain onside. Cuypers reached it on the right side of the penalty area and guided a side-footed finish beyond Thomas Gillier (2 saves) and inside the far left post.

Brady still had work to do to preserve the shutout, reacting superbly to deny Daniel Rios’ near-post header four minutes into second-half stoppage time.

–Field Level Media

Cristopher Sanchez struck out a career-high 13 in his second career shutout to guide the visiting Philadelphia Phillies to a 6-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday.

Bryce Harper hit a mammoth three-run homer for Philadelphia, which evened its record at 23-23 with its 14th win in 18 games since Don Mattingly took over for Rob Thomson as interim manager late last month. Mattingly missed Saturday’s game to attend his son’s college graduation, so bench coach Dusty Wathan guided the team in his place.

Trea Turner went 2-for-4 with two runs and an RBI. Harper reached base three times, adding a pair of walks to his three-run blast.

Marcell Ozuna went 0-for-4 with four strikeouts for Pittsburgh, which managed only six hits and drew no walks against Sanchez (5-2). Pirates starter Bubba Chandler (1-5) allowed five runs (four earned) on three hits and four walks in three innings.

Philadelphia got started early against Chandler, beginning with Trea Turner’s leadoff single. Kyle Schwarber followed with a walk before Harper sent a 3-1 fastball over the center-field wall for his 11th homer of the season.

The visitors added two more runs in the second, thanks to a rally that began with a pair of walks. With two outs and two on, Schwarber’s double to right — combined with a throwing error by right fielder Jared Triolo — plated a pair of runs.

Meanwhile, Sanchez was cruising. He retired the first 11 batters he faced until Bryan Reynolds doubled with two outs in the fourth. However, Sanchez quickly bounced back to strike out Ozuna to end the inning.

In the fifth, Sanchez yielded a one-out single to Nick Gonzales before inducing a double-play grounder to end any potential threat.

The left-hander then set down the Pirates in order in the sixth, striking out O’Neil Cruz for the final out. He gave up a leadoff double to Konnor Griffin in the seventh, but slammed the door thereafter.

That set the stage for Philadelphia to tack on an insurance run in the eighth. Justin Crawford walked with two outs against Justin Lawrence before Turner followed with an RBI double to make it 6-0.

Sanchez struck out two more in the eighth before surpassing his career high in punch-outs with a strikeout of Ozuna in the ninth. His 108th and final pitch of the day resulted in Nick Yorke’s game-ending grounder.

–Field Level Media

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — The PGA of America may have opened up the setup at Aronimink Golf Club, but that did not open up the crammed PGA Championship leaderboard Saturday.

Alex Smalley rallied on the back nine to shoot a 2-under-par 68 and build a two-shot lead, but nearly two dozen golfers are in striking range after the third round of the second major of the year.

If Smalley were to lift the Wanamaker Trophy on Sunday night, it would mark one of the biggest upsets in recent major golf history. Smalley, 29, is playing just his fifth major and has never finished better than T23. The Rochester, N.Y., native also has yet to win a PGA Tour event in 140 starts.

He enters the final round at 6-under 204, separating late in the day from a new group of contenders at 4 under par: Spaniard Jon Rahm (67), Englishman Aaron Rai (67), Sweden’s Ludvig Aberg (68), Germany’s Matti Schmid (65) and Canadian Nick Taylor (65) — all of whom made mid-afternoon moves despite increasing winds.

Three major winners are three shots back at 3 under: Northern Ireland star Rory McIlroy (66), Xander Schauffele (66) and Patrick Reed (67). Joining them is Maverick McNealy, who shared the 36-hole lead with Smalley but bogeyed two of his last four holes to stumble to a 71.

The conditions were far more scorable Saturday morning than at any point of the first two rounds. Chris Kirk, Englishman Justin Rose and Norway’s Kristoffer Reitan took advantage with rounds of 65 after only one 65 was seen Thursday or Friday. That trio rose to 2 under for the championship, as did Germany’s Martin Kaymer (66), Chile’s Joaquin Niemann (66), Bud Cauley (67), Ben Griffin (67) and Aussie Cameron Smith (68).

Also in the 12-way tie at 2 under are Max Greyserman, Chris Gotterup, Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama and Australia’s Min Woo Lee, each of whom settled for 71s after starting the day one behind the leaders.

Smalley appeared to take himself out of the picture when he bogeyed three of his first four holes. He quietly worked his way back by posting birdies at Nos. 7, 9 and 10 with a bogey speed bump at No. 8.

Smalley and McNealy each birdied the short par-4 13th to return to 4 under. Then Smalley holed a 27-foot putt straight uphill at No. 15 to take the outright lead before adding another birdie at the easy par-5 16th. He became just the second player to touch 6 under this week as McNealy spent a brief time at that score Friday.

Smalley couldn’t get up and down from a bunker at the par-3 17th, but saved par to maintain the lead. Then came a 14-footer for birdie at the last.

–Adam Zielonka, Field Level Media