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SEATTLE -- Nicolas Lodeiro figures hes just getting started.The Seattle Sounders hope hes right.Lodeiro scored his first MLS goal, then assisted on Jordan Morris team-leading eighth in Seattles 2-1 victory over Real Salt Lake on Sunday.Im very happy. I hope its the first of many, Lodeiro said through an interpreter. But the most important thing is the win today.The Sounders (8-12-3) have won two straight and are 2-0-1 since parting ways with former coach Sigi Schmid on July 26. Lodeiro has factored into four of their last five goals, with two assists last week in a 3-1 victory at Orlando City.He has come and turned things around, but the whole team has had a hand in that, not just one person, Seattle interim head coach Brian Schmetzer said. Hes a very talented soccer player, and he makes everyone else around him better. But the whole team kind of rises up with him -- that might be his biggest contribution, aside from a goal and an assist tonight.Lodeiro, the Uruguayan national midfielder signed by Seattle as a Designated Player on July 27, tallied in the 24th minute. Clint Dempsey lofted the ball toward the left wing side. Andreas Ivanschitz took it into penalty area, crossed it toward the middle, and Lodeiro drilled it high into the left side of the net.In the 37th minute, Dempsey deked around a defender and sent a ball toward the left side, where Lodeiro caught up with it and floated a cross into the box. Morris ran onto a header that went in off the hands of goalkeeper Nick Rimando.Its awesome playing with two players like that, Morris said about Dempsey and Lodeiro. You make a run, and you know youre going to get the ball.Coupled with Portlands 2-0 loss at D.C. United on Saturday night, the Sounders are five points below the Timbers for the last playoff spot in the Western Conference. The two rivals meet next Sunday in Seattle.Im not sure If its one certain thing, Schmetzer said of about teams play through the last three weekends. But I do believe its their group mentality that makes them play the way theyre playing now.RSLs Joao Plata scored on an uncontested 8-yard shot in the 62nd minute after goalkeeper Stefan Frei bobbled the ball at the top of the box while preparing to kick it downfield. Salt Lakes Yura Movsisyan gained control, and while Frei and the Seattle defenders scrambled, he found Plata running into the area.Coach Jeff Cassar said Real needed more of that kind of thing, as Salt Lake (10-8-7) has won just twice in its last 10 games.I dont think we changed the point of attack nearly enough as we wanted to, Cassar said. Every time we did, we were able to do more of the things we wanted to. You can come up with the best game plans and be tactically sound. But you turn the ball over as cheaply as we did in the first half, nothings going to work. Seattles got a lot of dangerous players in their attack, and they make you defend. We didnt win the battle of making them defend as much as we wanted to.Dempsey, coming off of a hat trick last week at Orlando City, had a chance to clinch the game with a penalty kick in the 82nd minute. But his shot banged off the underside of the crossbar and bounced away from the goalmouth. Adidas Nmd For Sale Ireland . Aaron Harrison scored a 22 points for Kentucky (6-1), which has won four in a row following a Nov. 12 loss to current No. 1 Michigan State. Julius Randle overcame a scoreless first half and added his sixth double-double in as many games with 14 points and 10 rebounds. 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Not a bad way to head into the winter.Not a bad for Milwaukee to wrap up the season, either, as the catchers two-run drive in the 10th inning lifted the Brewers over the Colorado Rockies 6-4 in the finale Sunday.I wanted to do anything to help this team, said Susac, who was acquired from San Francisco on Aug. 1. Its tough to do when you dont play.After Orlando Arcia hustled for a two-out double, Susac followed with a liner to left off Chris Rusin (3-5) as the Rockies bullpen struggled to hold the lead -- a recurring trend this season. It was Susacs first homer since July 12 last year while with the Giants.Reliever Tyler Thornburg (8-5) won after blowing a lead for a second straight day. Corey Knebel pitched a perfect 10th for his second save, striking out Charlie Blackmon to end the season.DJ LeMahieu sat out Sunday to protect his lead in the batting title race. It worked as LeMahieu edged Washingtons Daniel Murphy by.3478 to .3465.Certainly one of the best story lines of this season, especially when you take into account the guy -- the type of guy DJ is and how hard hes worked to achieve that, Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. Thats no small achievement, to win a batting title in this league.LeMahieu didnt really know what to think, mostly because it hadnt quite sunk in.Its a relief, LeMahieu said.There was plenty of intrigue with Milwaukees Chris Carter and Colorados Nolan Arenado dueling for the NL home run title. Both were kept in the park Sunday and finished tied with 41.It would be cool to win by myself. But at the same time, hes had a great year for himself. He earned it, said Arenado, who led the league in RBI with 133. Im just happy I had another good year. Its cool. Its a cool thing to be a part of.Carter hit 24 last season with Houston.I feel good to bounce back and have a good year, said Carter, who posed for photos with Arenado before the game. I worked hard to more consistent and improve as a hitter.Domingo Santana hit aa two-run homer in the eighth to give the Brewers a 4-3 lead.dddddddddddd It wouldnt last as Jordan Patterson tied it with a two-out single in the ninth that scored Arenado. Patterson also had a run-scoring double in the fifth -- his first two major league RBI.The Brewers struck out 12 times to give them a big league record 1,543 for the season, topping Houstons 1,535 in 2013.Blackmon led off with a homer -- the 10th time hes done that this year. He also had two doubles and a single in what could be Weiss last game with the Rockies. His contract expires at the end of the season and the front office has yet to announce whether they will bring Weiss back.Thats never weighed on me, as a player, as a manager, Weiss said. Im always going to show up the same way, no matter what my contract situation is.TRAINERS ROOMBrewers: OF Ryan Braun was given the day off on the final afternoon of the season. Hes at 135 games right now, thats a success, manager Craig Counsell said.Rockies: SS Trevor Story (torn ligament in left thumb) said hes about a month away from being full go. He was limited to 97 games, but led all rookies with 27 homers.OLYMPIC SPIRITOlympians Emma Coburn and Jenny Simpson threw out the first pitch Sunday -- while wearing their bronze medals from the Rio de Janeiro Games. Simpson (1,500 meters) and Coburn (steeplechase) crossed things up by throwing to opposite catchers.THIS & THATBrewers infielder Jonathan Villar fell a homer shy of becoming the fourth player in major league history to hit 20 homers and steal 60 bases. He wound up with a league-leading 62 stolen bases. ... Milwaukee started reliever Tyler Cravy for two innings and then turned things over to the bullpen.TRENDING UPMilwaukee (73-89) won five more games than a season ago and Colorado (75-87) turned in its best record since 2010.UP NEXT:The Brewers host the Rockies in a four-game series to open the 2017 season. ' ' '