Mijahir Jimenez tallied a brace for his first MLS goals Saturday night as Red Bull New York held off Orlando City for a 3-2 win in Harrison, N.J.

Emil Forsberg added a goal and a secondary assist for RBNY (7-7-4, 25 points), who solidified their spot in the East playoff table and improved to 4-0-2 in their last six fixtures against the Lions.

Tyrese Spicer came off the bench to factor into both Orlando goals in the second half, scoring the first and drawing the secondary assist on Griffin Dorsey’s marker. But it wasn’t enough to make up for a leaky performance defensively.

The Lions (6-10-2, 20 points) came into the match boasting consecutive clean sheets against San Jose and Nashville, which entered the weekend atop the East table. But Orlando’s defense had trouble maintaining any sort of shape and RBNY carved them up almost from the jump.

Gustav Berggren appeared to score in the fifth minute but an offside call negated it. Orlando’s reprieve lasted until the 23rd minute, when Berggren teed up Jimenez at the goal mouth to initiate scoring.

Forsberg upped the advantage to two in the 43rd minute as Cade Cowell set him up in the center of the box for a point-blank shot that Maxime Crepeau had no real chance to stop. RBNY took that two-goal advantage to halftime, along with a 12-6 advantage in shots and 4-0 in shots on target.

Spicer pulled one back in the 52nd minute off a corner kick, heading Braian Ojeda’s pass into the box into the net for his second goal in as many matches. But Jimenez restored a two-goal margin in the 60th minute via service from Cowell, roofing his shot into the top right corner.

Dorsey brought Orlando back within a goal in the 63rd minute as Antoine Griezmann brilliantly fed him for a look at a mostly open net from the right post.

Goalie Ethan Horvath came up huge for RBNY in stoppage time, coming up with terrific saves on point-blank chances from Spicer. Horvath made all five of his saves in the second half, while Crepeau finished with four saves.

–Field Level Media

Los Angeles FC and the host Vancouver Whitecaps fought to a 1-1 draw in a Saturday night heavyweight clash between the two teams atop the Western Conference standings.

Son Heung-Min extended his goal-scoring streak to four when he nabbed the opener for Los Angeles (10-5-4, 34 points). Thomas Muller rescued the point that the Whitecaps (10-3-4, 34 points) needed to remain above LAFC in the standings.

The visiting Black and Gold struck in transition in the first half. Pressure from speedy Jacob Shaffelburg forced a costly turnover out of Vancouver center-back Tristan Blackmon. Denis Bouanga, the beneficiary of the missed pass, played the ball to Son, who turned away from his defender and blasted it past goalkeeper Yohei Takaoka to make it 1-0 in the 37th minute.

Muller tied the match in the 76th minute from the penalty spot after LAFC’s Yevhen Cheberko pulled him down in the box.

LAFC were fortunate to survive an early barrage from the home side. Muller might have found the back of the net had he tried his luck on a 6th-minute break, but he opted instead to play the ball across to a late-arriving Jeevan Badwal, who could not get a shot off.

Brian White was gifted an opportunity 10 minutes later off a Cheberko giveaway, but goalkeeper Hugo Lloris was up to the challenge. White then had a 27th-minute goal chalked off on a clear offside.

Mathieu Choiniere nearly slotted it into an open net in the 78th minute when he caught Takaoka cheating outside his box.

LAFC’s center-back duo had a solid outing — Aaron Long and Ryan Porteous combined for five blocks and 21 clearances on the night. Whitecaps captain Ryan Gauld started his first match at home since March of last year. It was also the first time he and Muller started a match together.

The Whitecaps had their winless run extended to four in all competitions while LAFC dropped their first points since returning from the World Cup break.

–Field Level Media

Tai Baribo scored in the 77th minute to cap a second-half rally from two goals down as D.C. United escaped with a 2-2 draw against Nashville SC on Saturday in Washington.

Silvan Hefti also scored for D.C. (5-5-8, 23 points), which extended its run of matches without a loss to five in pursuit of its first postseason berth since 2019.

Sam Surridge and Shakur Mohammed scored goals eight minutes apart in the first half for Nashville (12-2-4, 40 points), which played D.C. to a 2-2 draw for the second time this season.

Brian Schwake made five saves for Nashville, which cashed in its only two shots on goal in the match.

Nashville broke on top in the 32nd minute after D.C. United’s Brandon Servania was called for a hand ball in the box on an attempted cross by Hany Mukhtar.

Surridge fired a right-footed penalty kick into the bottom right corner, out of the reach of D.C. keeper Sean Johnson for his team-high 11th goal this season.

Mukhtar had a hand in Nashville’s second goal as well. On a transition opportunity, he fed forward to Mohammed who launched a right-footed blast from 10 yards out.

D.C. defender Keisuke Kurokawa blocked the attempt but the rebound came back to Mohammed’s feet and he flicked a left-footed shot past Johnson, who was already sprawled on the turf from Mohammed’s first shot.

Mohammed’s dribbler went into the lower-left corner for his third goal this season.

Hefti, a first-year defender for D.C., triggered the comeback with his first career MLS goal. It came after a corner kick as he volleyed a right-footed shot into the top right corner from eight yards out.

Hefti’s attempt came after Schwake batted a header by Louis Munteanu out of the goal area.

Munteanu played a role in the equalizer as well. In a scramble for the ball and surrounded by defenders after he had fallen to the turf, Munteanu flicked a pass wide to Baribo.

His left-footed shot from 10 yards out on the left side of the box was deflected by Schwake but not enough to keep it out of the net as Baribo scored his team-high 11th goal.

After that, D.C. United’s Joao Peglow had the best chance to break the tie, but his blast from the top of the penalty box in the 89th minute caromed off the left post.

–Field Level Media