August 10, 2026: The Most Anxiety Filled Win
Boston Legacy 3, Portland Thorns 4.
Portland went three up inside nine minutes and thirty-eight seconds. That is the fastest three goals in NWSL history, thirty-five seconds quicker than the record Portland set themselves in July 2022. They broke their own record and then spent the next hour nearly giving the game away.
Marissa watched it from a bar in Las Vegas where the bartender would not let her touch the remote. By the eighty-second minute she had moved on to a third vodka for medical reasons.
Pietra Tordin got her first career hat trick at twenty-two, the youngest a Thorn has ever…
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