Chará, Loría score, Timbers beat Earthquakes 2-0

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Yimmi Chará and Marvin Loría’ each scored their first goal of the season to help the Portland Timbers beat the San Jose Earthquakes 2-0 on Saturday night.

Chará opened the scoring in the fifth minute, taking Eryk Williamson’s pass and finishing with a left-footed chip shot from 8 yards.

The Timbers (2-3-0) made it 2-0 in the 74th minute on Loría’s header, assisted by Williamson.

The Earthquakes (3-3-0) drew a penalty due to a hand ball by the Timbers’ Claudio Bravo’s in the 61st minute. But Portland goalkeeper Logan Ketterer, making his Major League Soccer debut, came up with the save a minute later, diving to his left and knocking Chris Wondolowski’s low attempt to safety.

It’s the first road victory of the season for Portland.

TIMBERS 2, EARTHQUAKES 0

Portland 1 1 —2

San Jose 0 0 —0

First Half—1, Portland, Chara, 1 (Williamson), 5th minute.

Second Half—2, Portland, Loria, 1 (Williamson), 74th.

Goalies—Portland, Logan Ketterer, Hunter Sulte; San Jose, JT Marcinkowski, Daniel Vega.

Yellow Cards—Tuiloma, Portland, 25th; Zuparic, Portland, 42nd.

Referee—Rosendo Mendoza. Assistant Referees—Corey Rockwell, Jennifer Garner, Daniel Radford. 4th Official—Joshua Encarnacion.

Lineups

Portland—Logan Ketterer; Pablo Bonilla (Jose van Rankin, 82nd), Claudio Bravo, Bill Tuiloma, Dario Zuparic; Yimmi Chara, Andy Polo (Renzo Zambrano, 72nd), Eryk Williamson; Jeremy Ebobisse (Dairon Asprilla, 69th), Marvin Loria (Zac McGraw, 82nd), Felipe Mora (Diego Valeri, 82nd).

San Jose—JT Marcinkowski; Luciano Abecasis, Oswaldo Alanis, Florian Jungwirth (Chris Wondolowski, 58th), Paul Marie (Shea Salinas, 59th); Cristian Espinoza (Eduardo Lopez, 59th), Carlos Fierro (Benjamin Kikanovic, 63rd), Eric Remedi, Jackson Yueill; Cade Cowell, Andy Rios (Jack Skahan, 66th).