Photo credit: Godofredo Vasquez/SFBay

By Pearl Allison Lo

D.C. United’s Bill Hamid had a career high nine saves as he fought off an increasing San Jose second-half attack to preserve a 2-1 score for his team Friday, an identical score to their last game.

Hamid’s saves included saves against Chris Wondolowski near the goal, a near equalizer by Atiba Harris in the 66th minute and chances from Alan Gordon.

It may technically have been the best in the East versus the worst in the West, but despite the score, it did not quite play out that way.

San Jose’s Brandon Barklage had an inadvertent handball in the box in the 11th minute, which set up a penalty kick by Eddie Johnson. The ball by Johnson was followed by goalie Jon Busch and looked like it glanced off Busch as Johnson made it 1-0 in the 12th minute.

Luis Silva doubled the lead in the 25th minute. He took a pass from teammate Chris Rolfe on the left and got it past in time before a sliding Clarence Goodson into the net’s lower right corner. It was Silva’s fourth goal in as many games.

After major work on a run by the Quakes’ Jordan Stewart, the ball got to Khari Stephenson, who passed it to Wondolowski. With a lot of traffic in front, especially opposing traffic, Wondo got San Jose got on board with the help of a deflection in the 39th minute. This was a  minute after Wondo was called offside.

The Quakes’ Shea Salinas returned after three games nursing a lower abdominal strain to come in to play in the 67th minute.

Game notes: San Jose has now lost their last four regular season games by one goal. They did manage to score their first goal in four games with Wondo’s return. The Quakes play their only away game of the month next in New York, facing the Red Bulls at 4pm PST.