There’s not much consolation to take out of a home loss to the league’s last-place club, but Colorado Rapids sporting director and interim GM Padraig Smith likely left Dick’s Sporting Goods Park after Saturday's 1-0 defeat to D.C. United feeling like his team had made at least a little bit of progress.
Smith and the Rapids dismissed former head coach Pablo Mastroeni last week, firing the club legend nine months after they inked him to a new, three-year contract following Colorado’s shocking second-place finish in the 2016 Supporters’ Shield race.