{"id":281870,"date":"2026-04-23T11:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281870\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:14:11","slug":"san-jose-earthquakes-historic-run-continues-as-they-beat-austin-fc-5-1-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281870\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Earthquakes\u2019 historic run continues as they beat Austin FC 5-1 \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JOSE \u2013 Right back Jack Jasinski<\/a> scored in his first career MLS start and star signee Timo Werner<\/a> scored the winner on a penalty kick in the 78th minute, helping the San Jose Earthquakes<\/a> continue their best start in club history with a 5-1 win over Austin FC Wednesday night at PayPal Park.<\/p>\n

The Quakes (8-1-0, 24 points), who now have the best record in MLS<\/a>, added three more goals after the 83rd minute. That included a brace from Preston Judd, who converted a pair of crosses from Paul Marie, and a fifth goal of the season for Stanford product Ousseni Bouda, tying him with Judd for the team lead.<\/p>\n

\"JamarJamar Ricketts #2 of the San Jose Earthquakes controls the ball against Austin FC during match at PayPal Park on April 22, 2026 in San Jose, California. (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson\/Getty Images)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite the lopsided final, the Quakes fell behind in the ninth minute after a blunder by captain Ronaldo Vieira. The defensive midfielder made an errant pass across the middle of the field that led to a breakaway for Joseph Morales, who beat Daniel 1-on-1.<\/p>\n

It was only the fourth goal allowed by the Quakes, tied for the fewest in the league<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite dominating possession \u2013 the Quakes finished with a 37-6 edge in shots \u2013 the Black and Blue weren\u2019t able to equalize until Jasinski\u2019s towering header off a corner kick from Niko Tsakiris in the 57th\u00a0minute.<\/p>\n

Jasinski, the team\u2019s second-round pick in the 2026 MLS SuperDraft from Princeton, had played just 14 MLS minutes entering Wednesday but had scored last week in the team\u2019s U.S. Open Cup win over Phoenix Rising. He became the ninth San Jose player to score in league play.<\/p>\n

The Quakes took the lead 20 minutes later after Jamar Ricketts was brought down in the box. Werner sent keeper Brad Stuver the wrong way from the penalty spot to score his second goal since arriving from Germany at the start of the season.<\/p>\n

The Quakes will look to extend their club-record four-game road winning streak on Saturday against St. Louis CITY SC (1-4-3, 6 points). The 2022 New York Red Bulls are the only other team in MLS history to start with five straight road wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2013 Right back Jack Jasinski scored in his first career MLS start and star signee Timo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,402,181,7332,88,1084,90,89,1083,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-281870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-bay-area","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-inside-sports","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-major-league-soccer","13":"tag-san-jose","14":"tag-san-jose-earthquakes","15":"tag-san-jose-headlines","16":"tag-san-jose-news","17":"tag-soccer","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}