When the Colorado Rapids file off their team bus Tuesday evening ahead of their StubHub Center date with the Galaxy, it will mark a strange homecoming for Jack McBean.
McBean played seven seasons with the Galaxy, winning three MLS titles and becoming, at 16, the youngest goal-scorer in franchise history. But until Tuesday he had never dressed in the visitors’ locker room at the stadium he long called home.
Especially since he and his teammates, buried deep in the Western Conference standings, are getting their second chance in 10 days to spoil the Galaxy’s season. Earlier this month, the Rapids snapped the Galaxy’s nine-game unbeaten streak with a win in Colorado; the Galaxy followed that with a draw against lowly Minnesota United, giving them just one point from two games they should have won.