This season is starting to look a lot like last year for the New England Revolution.

At this time in 2025, the Revs were in the middle of a nine-game MLS streak without a loss. One year later, they are rolling again as they’ve gone 5-0-1 in their last six MLS matches to rise to second place in the Eastern Conference.

When the Revolution (6-3-1, 19 points) host the Philadelphia Union (1-7-3, 6 points) Saturday in Foxborough, Mass., they look to extend their unbeaten streak and maintain their perfect record (5-0-0) at home.

This year, the Revs want to cash in on their streak — unlike last season, when they followed their successful run with a nine-game winless streak and failed to make the playoffs for the second straight year.

“We’ve had good results in the last several weeks, which helps the dynamic, always,” Revolution coach Marko Mitrovic said. “We want to be sure that we are not emotional thinking like, ‘Oh, now we are winning,’ and we don’t ignore things that we need to do good.”

While the Revolution have steamrolled their five foes at home, outscoring them 13-2, Saturday’s 1-0 win over visiting Charlotte FC was a struggle. Carles Gil scored the lone goal on a penalty kick seven minutes into second-half stoppage time.

Gil (three goals, three assists) and set-piece weapon Luca Langoni (one goal, six assists) rev up the offense for the Revs.

For Philadelphia, this season bears no resemblance to last year when it captured the Supporter’s Shield by compiling the best record in MLS.

After opening the season with six straight MLS defeats, the Union have gone 1-1-3 over their last five matches. That includes a scoreless draw last week against Eastern Conference leader Nashville SC.

“What we’re trying to do is bring stability to the back line and I think you’ve seen that over the last four or five weeks,” Philadelphia coach Bradley Carnell said.

The Union have the fewest goals of any team in the Eastern Conference with nine. Milan Iloski and Danley Jean Jacques are their lone players who have scored multiple goals with two apiece.

“It’s a team that’s very aggressive going forward, pushing the ball forward as soon as possible and trying to win their attacks, very good on winning second balls. That’s kind of their identity,” Mitrovic said. “We are not looking at the standings. Every game is unique.”

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Two middling teams in the Eastern Conference clash Saturday night when FC Cincinnati takes on host Charlotte FC.

Cincinnati (4-4-3, 15 points) arrives on the upswing after beating the New York Red Bulls and Chicago to vault back into the Eastern Conference playoff picture. It sits sixth in the Eastern Conference with potential for more by getting guys back from injury to be close to full strength.

“The idea is not to play guys out of position,” head coach Pat Noonan said. “It was a unique stretch there and, hopefully with the healthy (players) of those returning, we can get guys in more comfortable positions and have better depth, better health and better competition.”

In their most recent match last Saturday at Chicago, their star, Evander, netted his first career hat trick in a 3-2 gut-check win. Evander ranks second on the team with five goals, one behind Kevin Denkey.

Charlotte (4-5-2, 14 points) comes into Saturday night having lost its last five MLS regular-season matches. It also lost in the Round of 16 in the U.S. Open Cup last week.

After a 4-0-2 start, Charlotte FC hasn’t won since April 18 to drop to seventh in the Eastern Conference. They lost two of those MLS regular-season games by multiple goals, but their most recent match was a 1-0 loss to the New England Revolution last Saturday. It was a hard-fought effort from Charlotte, but it still did not stop its losing streak.

“I thought the players pressed extremely well,” head coach Dean Smith said. “But, we must improve on what we did, but also know that the opposition is going to play a little bit differently as well.”

Midfielder Pep Biel leads Charlotte with five goals, one of six players with multiple goals.

Charlotte leads the all-time series 4-2-2 and it swept Cincinnati last year. Cincinnati hasn’t beaten Charlotte since September 2023.

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Dylan Cease struck out 10 in seven innings Friday night and the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the visiting Los Angeles Angels A2-0.

Cease (3-1) allowed five hits with no walks in the opener of a three-game series. It was Cease’s second win of the season over the Angels and it gave the Blue Jays a 3-1 lead in the season series. He struck out 12 in five innings on April 20 in Toronto’s 5-2 win at Anaheim.

Louis Varland pitched the ninth to earn his fifth save of the season and end Toronto’s four-game losing streak.

Toronto scored both runs in the third against left-hander Reid Detmers (1-3). George Springer led off with a single, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. walked with one out and Kazuma Okamoto grounded an RBI single to center. Daulton Varsho walked and Ernie Clement hit a sacrifice fly to right.

Cease retired his first nine batters with five strikeouts before Zach Neto led off the fourth with a single, but Mike Trout grounded into a double play. Nolan Schanuel singled to second and took second on Clement’s throwing error. Jorge Soler grounded out to end the inning.

A walk and a catcher’s interference put two on with one out in the Toronto fourth. Detmers struck out Myles Straw with his 96th pitch before Jose Fermin replaced him and finished the inning on Guerrero’s lineout to shortstop.

Detmers allowed two runs, two hits and six walks while striking out three in 3 2/3 innings. He also lost to the Blue Jays on April 20.

The Angels’ first extra-base hit was Jo Adell’s double to center with two out in the seventh. Cease struck out Josh Lowe to end the inning.

Pinch hitter Vaughn Grissom led off the eighth against Jeff Hoffman with a double to left. Hoffman worked out of the inning with a groundout, a popup and a strikeout.

Former Blue Jay Alek Manoah pitched in the majors for the first time since May 29, 2024, when he worked the bottom of the eighth. He received a mixed reaction from the fans. Manoah, who had elbow surgery, tossed a perfect inning with one strikeout.

–Field Level Media