The midfielder set up his team's first goal on the night and scored the winner, making the most of his 30 minutes on the pitch.
It didn't take long for New England Revolution coach Jay Heaps' substitutes to influence Sunday's match.
Teal Bunbury came on with a half-hour to play and assisted Charlie Davies' equalizer four minutes later before scoring the winning goal thanks to fellow substitute Diego Fagundez's cross as the Revs topped the Philadelphia Union, 2-1.
"We really felt like we had good options off the bench in the lineup that we didn’t want to sit on too long," Heaps said after the match.