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)