Carlos Coronel made three consecutive penalty saves and Daniel Edelman converted the winning goal in the bottom half of the seventh frame as the New York Red Bulls stunned the Columbus Crew to win the best-of-three series in the won the first round. Jersey.

The score was tied 2-2 after regular regulation, before the Red Bulls won 5-4 on penalties.

The defending MLS Cup champion Crew were the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference and had the second-most points — setting regular-season club records for most goals (72) and points (66) — in the MLS behind Inter Miami .

New York, the No. 7 seed, won 1-0 in Columbus on Tuesday.

Columbus leads the all-time series in all competitions 40-37-14. However, the Red Bulls are 23-13-7 at home against the Crew, including 3-0-1 in the playoffs, with all three wins coming at Red Bull Arena. New York is 4-1-1 in its last five home playoff games.

With the Crew’s season on the line, Christian Ramirez, who came on 10 minutes earlier, leveled 2-2 in the 96th minute with a header from an Alex Matan corner.

The Red Bulls took a 2-1 lead in the 80th minute after a penalty from Emil Forsberg. He was fouled by Rudy Camacho, barely a yard inside the top of the penalty area, to set up the kick, which he smashed into the bottom left corner.

Max Arfsten put Columbus ahead in the 55th minute before Dante Vanzeir equalized nine minutes later.

Arfsten, who came on for DeJuan Jones a minute earlier, smoothly took off Cucho Hernandez and curled a shot past Coronel.

The Red Bulls scored the equalizer in transition when Forsberg found Vanzeir in space for a goal from the left side of the penalty area.

Columbus did everything but score in a dominant first half in which the Crew led 9-2.

But the Crew were left to wonder if it just wasn’t their day in the 40th minute when both Diego Rossi and Hernandez hit the left post with successive shots inside 30 seconds and Steven Moreira’s follow-up effort was blocked by Sean Nealis.

Colonel stopped shooting attempts by Yevhen Cheberko, Arfsten and Matan in the last three of seven rounds. Noah Eile, Wikelman Carmona, Elias Manoel, Forsberg and Edelman of the Red Bulls found the net.

Columbus attempted to join the Los Angeles Galaxy (2011-12), Houston Dynamo (2006-07) and DC United (1996-97) as repeat winners and keep their quest alive to keep DC in second place with four MLS Cups, one behind the Melkweg.

Information from Reuters and The Associated Press was used in this story.