SAN JOSE – Some ties feel like gaining a point. Others feel like losing two.

Friday night fell on the disappointing end of that spectrum for Bay FC, which settled for a 1-1 tie against Boston Legacy FC at PayPal Park after the visiting expansion side received a first-half red card.

The tie kept Bay FC (3-3-2, 11 points) in a three-way tie for seventh place in the NWSL entering Saturday, with the top eight teams making the playoffs. But results like Friday — when it outshot Boston 14-3 inside the box and had a 9-2 edge in shots on goal — are the kind it will need to convert into wins to stay in the playoff race.

“Obviously frustrated we didn’t get three points tonight,” coach Emma Coates said. “I thought we probably should have been 2 or 3-nil up in the first half, obviously. Especially when it went down to 10 players, we didn’t capitalize.”

Bianca St-Georges received a straight red card in the 42nd minute for a dangerous tackle on USWNT midfielder Claire Hutton – the second red card of the season for the Canadian defender.

Hutton was able to continue playing, and midfielder Dorian Bailey gave Bay the lead in the 51st minute, collecting a centering pass from Karlie Lema, dribbling past a defender and cutting the ball into the opposite corner of the goal.

It was only the fourth goal in 128 league games for the University of North Carolina product, who has been with Bay FC since the team’s inception.

With the goal lead, a player advantage and a shutout streak that extended through six full halves, it seemed Bay had the game in hand. But a collision in the box allowed Boston (2-5-3, 9 points) to equalize in the 64th minute.

Goalie Jordan Silkowitz, who has been nominated for the NWSL Save of the Week in each of the past four weeks, came off her line to save a shot and wound up kneeing Boston’s Aissata Traore in the face. Amanda Gutirres sent Silkowitz the wrong way on the ensuing penalty kick, ending Bay’s club-record 289-minute shutout streak.

Though Coates was aggressive in making offensive-minded substitutions to break the tie, Bay couldn’t break through.

Bay has struggled to convert chances all season. The team has eight goals, the third-fewest in the league and three fewer than any other team currently in playoff position.

“We’ve obviously done a lot of work around some of our in possession structures and trying to create more high-quality chances,” Coates said. “We’re trying to work on our structures in the final third, and hopefully you’ve seen some of that tonight, and now the finishing piece is actually the final pass, the actual quality of the actual finish and ball contact, and just making use of all our good possession.”

As a result, Bay couldn’t take advantage of another strong defensive performance. The team has not allowed a goal in the run of play in three straight games, following a 1-0 win at San Diego and a 0-0 draw against Utah.

Before that stretch, it hadn’t recorded a shutout since June.

“Consistency is something that we’ve been working on and we’re trying to push for,” Hutton said. “So, just to continue getting points out of these games is a step in the right direction. It’s not where we want to be at all. We want the shutouts, we want to win games, but to be able to stack these games up is a step in the right direction.”

Bay FC has three more games before the World Cup break – at Portland on Wednesday, home against Chicago on May 24, and at Orlando on May 29.

“We’ve now gone three games unbeaten,” Coates said. “I think that’s massive. I think you can see the work and the progress we’re making. I’m a process-oriented coach, never too high or too low, and are we proud and pleased with the amount of opportunities that we created? Absolutely.”