Quakes tie Timbers

Valeri Qazaishvili scored in the 76th minute and the Quakes tied the Portland Timbers 11.

Players from both teams stood at midfield before the match with a “Stay Strong California + Oregon” sign in support of the communities effected by the wildfires. San Jose (245) will host Portland (443) again Saturday night.

Portland goalkeeper Steve Clark had a diving save on Chris Wondolowski’s header in the 89th to preserve the draw.

Santiago Mosquera had host FC Dallas’ first hat trick since 2018 in a 41 victory over the Colorado Rapids . ... Fredy Montero scored twice and the host Vancouver Whitecaps beat the

Montreal Impact, giving Toronto FC the top spot in the MLS roundrobin portion of the Canadian Championship. NHL: Jim Montgomery is getting a second chance to coach in the NHL after being hired by the St. Louis Blues as an assistant coach less than a year since he was fired by the Dallas Stars for “unprofessional conduct.”

Montgomery, 51, said he has been sober for nine months.

The Buffalo Sabres acquired center Eric Staal in a trade that sent forward Marcus Johansson to the Minnesota Wild.

Cycling: Colombia’s Miguel Angel Lopez won the toughest mountain stage of this year’s Tour de France, and race leader Primoz Roglic finished second and added a few crucial seconds to his advantage over Tadej Pogacar.

The 105.4mile trek’s final ascent to the Meribel ski station was the high point of this year’s race at 7,500 feet, winding up Loze pass with tortuous gradients of 24%. Struggling defending champion Egan Bernal pulled out before the stage.

Tennis: Novak Djokovic behaved better in his first match since being defaulted from the U.S. Open for unintentionally hitting a line judge in the throat with a ball, beating local wildcard entry Salvatore Caruso 63, 62 at the Italian Open in Rome.

Also, ninetime champion Rafael Nadal made a solid return to competition after a sevenmonth absence by beating U.S. Open semifinalist Pablo Carreño Busta 61, 61.