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“And then we just had 15 minutes of — (I) don’t know exactly what happened. Can’t pinpoint exactly what went wrong, but it went real wrong.”

It’s been going wrong at home for the Earthquakes (13-14-8) all season. They haven’t won at home since their 3-2 opening-night victory over Minnesota, a club-record 11-game winless streak.

But for the Whitecaps (10-9-7), something finally went right. They’d seen heartbreak in two straight home games, giving up 11th-hour equalizers to Toronto and Red Bulls New York, and were flushed away on the road to TFC.

And it appeared through 58 minutes that their playoff hopes, already on life support, had flatlined after falling behind to the league’s worst team. But when Yordy Reyna’s 25-yard free kick curled between two Whitecaps in a wall, then off the hands of San Jose keeper Andrew Tarbell and into the net, they suddenly had a pulse and the Quakes, heart palpitations.

“When we conceded the first goal, I think we lost everything, actually,” said San Jose coach Mikael Stahre. “We lost the shape, the power and the will to play. Crazy defeat.”

Two minutes later after Reyna, El Bicho — a.k.a. Cristian Techera — scored the equalizer. Kei Kamara then recorded the game-winner after another seven minutes of sustained pressure, giving the Caps their first win in San Jose in 11 games and blowing away the dark storm clouds circling coach Carl Robinson’s head.

“Robbo got into us at halftime, and that’s what woke us up,” said fullback Jake Nerwinski. “We were asleep at the wheel the first 20 minutes. We came out in the second half and nearly scored in the first 10 seconds, and I think that set the tone for us. We were really able to put on pressure.