{"id":360857,"date":"2026-08-02T17:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/360857\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T17:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:48:11","slug":"mijahir-jimenez-scores-2-goals-in-1st-mls-start-as-red-bulls-beat-orlando-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/360857\/","title":{"rendered":"Mijahir Jim\u00e9nez scores 2 goals in 1st MLS start as Red Bulls beat Orlando 3-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mijahir Jim\u00e9nez scored two goals in his first MLS start, Emil Forsberg added another in the 43rd minute and the New York Red Bulls beat Orlando 3-2 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>New York (7-7-4) has posted a 4-0-2 mark in the last six meetings across all competitions against Orlando, including a 2-1 victory in the opening match of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando (6-10-2) has not defeated New York since a season sweep in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Jim\u00e9nez, a 19-year-old who was added on a short-term call up from Red Bull New York II, opened the scoring in the 23rd and put New York ahead 3-1 in the 60th.<\/p>\n<p>Jim\u00e9nez became the second player in Red Bulls history to score a brace in his first career MLS start, joining Cornell Glen on May 8, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Tyrese Spicer and Griffin Dorsey both scored a second-half goal for Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Orlando: Hosts Cincinnati on Aug. 15.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bulls: Play at Atlanta on Aug. 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mijahir Jim\u00e9nez scored two goals in his first MLS start, Emil Forsberg added another in the 43rd minute&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8003,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-360857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}