Score board
Baseball
Major League Baseball results on Wednesday (home team in CAPS):
NY Mets 7 MIAMI 6
Minnesota 6 DETROIT 2
Pittsburgh 6 MILWAUKEE 4
ST. LOUIS 4 Cincinnati 2
LA Angels 5 OAKLAND 4
Washington 2 ATLANTA 0
Boston 10 TORONTO 1
CLEVELAND 6 Philadelphia 0
NY YANKEES 5 Houston 4
CHICAGO CUBS 6 San Diego 2
Chicago White Sox 5 TEXAS 2
KANSAS CITY 9 Tampa Bay 8
San Francisco 9 ARIZONA 6
Colorado 7 LA DODGERS 3
SEATTLE 8 Baltimore 3
AMERICAN LEAGUE
EASTERN DIVISION
W L PCT GB
Boston 19 8 .704 -
NY Yankees 17 10 .630 2
Baltimore 16 12 .571 3
Tampa Bay 12 15 .444 7
Toronto 10 18 .357 9
CENTRAL DIVISION
Kansas City 15 10 .600 -
Detroit 15 11 .577
Minnesota 12 12 .500 2
Cleveland 12 13 .480 3
Chicago White Sox 11 15 .423 4
WESTERN DIVISION
Texas 17 10 .630 -
Oakland 16 13 .552 2
Seattle 13 17 .433 5
LA Angels 10 17 .370 7
Houston 8 20 .286 9
NATIONAL LEAGUE
EASTERN DIVISION
Atlanta 17 10 .630 -
Washington 14 14 .500 3
Philadelphia 12 16 .429 5
NY Mets 11 15 .423 5
Miami 8 20 .286 9
CENTRAL DIVISION
St. Louis 16 11 .593 -
Pittsburgh 16 12 .571
Milwaukee 14 12 .538 1
Cincinnati 15 14 .517 2
Chicago Cubs 11 16 .407 5
WESTERN DIVISION
Colorado 17 11 .607 -
San Francisco 16 12 .571 1
Arizona 15 13 .536 2
LA Dodgers 13 14 .481 3
San Diego 10 17 .370 6
Basketball
Results from the NBA Playoffs 1st Round games on Wednesday (home team in CAPS):
1 2 3 4 T
Boston 20 25 24 23 92
NY KNICKS 22 17 21 26 86
(NY Knicks lead best-of-seven series 3-2)
1 2 3 4 T
Atlanta 22 21 24 16 83
Indiana 21 29 31 25 106
(Indiana leads best-of-seven series 3-2)
1 2 3 4 T
Houston 30 20 37 20 107
OKLAHOMA CITY 26 17 32 25 100
(Oklahoma City leads best-of-seven series 3-2)
Ice Hockey
Results from the NHL Playoffs Quarterfinal games on Wednesday (home team in CAPS)
1 2 3 T
Toronto 1 0 0 1
BOSTON 2 2 0 4
(Boston leads best-of-seven series 1-0)
1 2 3 T
NY Islanders 0 0 0 0
PITTSBURGH 2 3 0 5
(Pittsburgh leads best-of-seven series 1-0)
1 2 3 T
San Jose 0 1 2 3
VANCOUVER 0 1 0 1
(San Jose leads best-of-seven series 1-0)
Snooker
World Championship
SHEFFIELD, United Kingdom - Quarterfinal scores on Wednesday from the snooker World Championships:
Quarterfinals (best of 25 frames)
Ricky Walden (ENG) bt Michael White (WAL) 13-6
Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) bt Stuart Bingham (ENG) 13-4
Barry Hawkins (ENG) bt Ding Junhui (CHN) 13-7
Judd Trump (ENG) bt Shaun Murphy (ENG) 13-12
Semifinals (best of 33 frames)
Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) v Judd Trump (ENG)
Barry Hawkins (ENG) v Ricky Walden (ENG)
Soccer
European Champions League
Champions League semifinal second-leg result on Wednesday:
Barcelona (ESP) 0 Bayern Munich (GER) 3 (Robben 49, Pique og-72, Mueller 76)
Bayern win 7-0 on aggregate
AFC Champions League
AFC Champions League results on Wednesday:
Group A
At Riyadh
Al Shabab (KSA) 2 (Nassir Al Shamrani 47, Bader Mansoor 80) Al Jazira (UAE) 1 (Ibrahim Diaky 30)
At Tabriz
Tractorsazi Tabriz (IRI) 2 (Geilson 3, 66) El Jaish (QAT) 4 (Side Al Doukali 48-pen, Ilyas Abdulqadir 52, 71-pen, Ko Seul-Ki 83)
Group B
At Doha
Lekhwiya (QAT) 2 (Luiz Martin 12, Khaled Muftah 65) Al Ettifaq (KSA) 0
At Tashkent
Pakhtakor (UZB) 1 (Kakhi Makharadze 19-pen) Al Shabab Al Arabi (UAE) 2 (Esam Dhani 1, Makharadze 64-og)
Group E
At Seoul
FC Seoul (KOR) 2 (Jung Seung-Yong 54, Kim Hyun-Sung 74) Buriram United (THA) 2 (Ekkachai Samre 56, Theerathon Bunmathan 75)
At Sendai
Vegalta Sendai (JPN) 1 (Naoki Sugai 24) Jiangsu Sainty (CHN) 2 (Liu Jianye 38, Hamdi Salihi 62)
Group F
At Guangzhou
Guangzhou Evergrande (CHN) 0 Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors (KOR) 0
At Nonthaburi
Muangthong United (THA) 0 Urawa Red Diamonds (JPN) 1 (Daisuke Nasu 47)
Libertadores Cup
Last 16 first leg results on Wednesday:
At the Arena do Gremio, Porto Alegre:
Gremio (Brazil) 2 (Vargas 27, Fernando 80) Santa Fe (Colombia) 1 (Perez 54pen)
At La Bombonera, Buenos Aires:
Boca Juniors (Argentina) 1 (Blandi 59) Corinthians (Brazil) 0
Tennis
WTA/ATP Portugal Open
Results on Wednesday (x denotes seeding):
2nd rd
Men
Victor Hanescu (ROM) bt Benoit Paire (FRA x6) 7-6 (2), 6-4; David Ferrer (ESP x1) bt Eduardo Roger-Vasselin (FRA) 6-4, 4-6, 6-3; Fabio Fognini (ITA x4) bt Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-4; Pablo Carreno-Busta (ESP) bt David Goffin (BEL) 1-6, 6-2, 6-2.
Women
Romina Oprandi (SUI) bt Peng Shuai (CHN) 6-1, 6-3; Kaia Kanepi (EST) bt Sorana Cirstea (ROM x5) 6-1, 6-2; Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP x4) bt Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) 6-4, 6-3; Elena Vesnina (RUS x7) bt Monica Niculescu (ROM) 6-4, 6-4; Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) bt Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) 6-4, 6-4; Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS x3) bt Estrella Cabeza Candela (ESP) 6-3, 7-6 (4); Monica Puig (PUR) bt Francesca Schiavone (ITA) 6-3, 6-2; Ayumi Morita (JPN) bt Ursula Radwanska (POL) 6-2, 6-3.
Munich ATP
Second-round results on Wednesday:
Ivan Dodig (CRO) bt Marin Cilic (CRO x2) 6-4, 6-2; Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER x4) bt Evgeny Korolev (KAZ) 6-2, 6-4; Viktor Troicki (SRB) bt Radek Stepanek (CZE) 6-4, 6-4; Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR x5) bt Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) 7-6 (2), 7-6 (3).
China Daily
(China Daily 05/03/2013 page23)
