About the last thing the Sounders needed Sunday was one of their only healthy forwards and biggest scoring threat losing his cool fewer than 37 minutes in.
But that’s what happened in this 3-0 defeat to FC Dallas at Frisco, Tex. when Clint Dempsey delivered a right handed blow that caught Jacori Hayes in the groin area and sent him collapsing to the turf. Upon video review, Dempsey was sent off with a red card that left his team shorthanded the rest of the way.
The Sounders were already down a goal at that point, but had been edging back into it with their first sustained possession of the match deep in Dallas territory.