Late equalizers frustrate home teams

[MLS] In recent years, “managing the game” has become one of the sport’s stock phrases, used to describe the process of protecting a leadwhile not necessarily sitting on it. Easy to say, hard to accomplish. Two MLS teams failed to do so at home on Saturday night, yet a road team — Sporting Kansas City — held a 2-1 lead throughout thesecond half to hand Portland yet another defeat at Jeld-Wen Field.