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Scenes from a streak
Do you celebrate a record number of consecutive ties?
If a tie is like kissing your sister, then what is six draws in a row?
Can you be both winless and undefeated over a month of games?
These are questions for the ages, but the reality is that the Colorado Rapids have now set an MLS mark with six consecutive draws. Now the team takes that record on the road to Portland next Saturday. The Timbers, who fell 3-1 to the Rapids to open the season, have gone 5-1-0 at home. A tie there would be a first for Jeld-Wen Field.
Colorado returns home to face the Los Angeles Galaxy on June 18. The Rapids and the Galaxy took turns beating one another at home during the 2010 season.
Here at ColoradoSoccerNow.com, we decided to take a look at scenes from six consecutive draws. We’re doing this as a form of visual therapy as we try to figure out whether to cheer or curse the team’s fortune.
In one of the highlights, Conor Casey picked up his first goal of the season in the fifth of six consecutive ties when he rounded the Sporting Kansas City 'keeper on May 28. (Photograph by Joel Baud/ColoradoSoccerNow.com)
Kosuke Kimura, plucking the ball out of the air in front of Philadelphia's Sebastien Le Toux, can lay claim to the "Fittest Player in the MLS" after performing tirelessly at right back and right wing in the midfield during the streak. (Photograph by Joel Baud/ColoradoSoccerNow.com)
Matt Pickens, cradling the ball in a 0-0 draw with Toronto on May 22, picked up a shutdown and has a goals against average of 1 during the streak. (Photograph by Joel Baud/ColoradoSoccerNow.com)
Pablo Mastroeni, here charging at the Fire, has been a force in the midfield throughout the streak. (Photograph by Joel Baud/ColoradoSoccerNow.com)
Jeff Larentowicz, in action here against LA in 2010, scored both goals in a 2-2 draw at New York. The "Ginga Ninja" and the Rapids face LA in the next home match on June 18. (Photograph by Jessica Taves/ColoradoSoccerNow.com)
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