Baseball

Results of MLB games on Wednesday (home team in CAPS):

ATLANTA 8 Minnesota 3

LA Dodgers 9 MILWAUKEE 2

Cincinnati 7 NY METS 4

TEXAS 3 Oakland 1

COLORADO 4 Arizona 1

Washington 2 SAN FRANCISCO 1 (10 innings)

TORONTO 4 Tampa Bay 3 (10 innings)

BALTIMORE 6 NY Yankees 3

Detroit 11 CLEVELAND 7

LA ANGELS 7 Seattle 1

PITTSBURGH 1 Chicago Cubs 0

Philadelphia 3 MIAMI 0

Boston 6 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 2

HOUSTON 3 Kansas City 1

St. Louis 5 SAN DIEGO 3

AMERICAN LEAGUE

East Division

W L Pct GB

NY Yankees 28 18 .609 -

Boston 28 19 .596

Baltimore 25 21 .543 3

Tampa Bay 24 22 .522 4

Toronto 19 27 .413 9

Central Division

Cleveland 26 19 .578 -

Detroit 25 19 .568

Kansas City 21 22 .488 4

Chicago 21 24 .467 5

Minnesota 18 25 .419 7

West Division

Texas 30 17 .638 -

Oakland 25 23 .521 5

Seattle 20 27 .426 10

Los Angeles 19 27 .413 10

Houston 14 33 .298 16

NATIONAL LEAGUE

East Division

Atlanta 28 18 .609 -

Washington 24 23 .511 4

Philadelphia 23 24 .489 5

NY Mets 17 27 .386 10

Miami 13 34 .277 15

Central Division

St. Louis 30 16 .652 -

Cincinnati 29 18 .617 1

Pittsburgh 28 18 .609 2

Chicago Cubs 18 27 .400 11

Milwaukee 18 27 .400 11

West Division

Arizona 26 21 .553 -

Colorado 26 21 .553 -

San Francisco 26 21 .553 -

San Diego 21 25 .457 4

LA Dodgers 19 26 .422 6

Basketball

Result from the NBA Eastern Conference finals game between Miami and Indiana on Wednesday (home team in CAPS)

1 2 3 4 OT T

Indiana 21 21 23 27 10 102

MIAMI 22 15 27 28 11 103

(Miami leads best-of-seven series 1-0)

Cycling

Tour of Italy

Results from the 17th stage of the Giro d'Italia, 214 km from Caravaggio to Vicenza on Wednesday:

1.Giovanni Visconti (ITA/MOV) 5hr 15min 34sec, 2. Ramunas Navardauskas (LTU/GRM) at 19secs, 3. Luka Mezgec (SLO/ARG) s.t., 4. Filippo Pozzato (ITA/LAM) s.t., 5. Danilo Hondo (GER/RSH) s.t., 6. Salvatore Puccio (ITA/SKY) s.t., 7. Sacha Modolo (ITA/AND) s.t., 8. Fabio Felline (ITA/AND) s.t., 9. Francisco Ventoso (ESP/MOV) s.t., 10. Cadel Evans (AUS/BMC) s.t.

Overall standings

1. Vincenzo Nibali (ITA/AST) 73hr 11min 29sec, 2. Cadel Evans (AUS/BMC) at 1:26, 3. Rigoberto Uran (COL/SKY) 2:46, 4. Michele Scarponi (ITA/LAM) 3:53, 5. Przemyslaw Niemiec (POL/LAM) 4:13, 6. Mauro Santambrogio (ITA/FAR) 4:57, 7. Carlos Betancur (COL/ALM) 5:15, 8. Rafal Majka (POL/SAX) 5:20, 9. Benat Intxausti (ESP/MOV) 5:47, 10. Robert Gesink (NED/BLA) 7:24

Ice hockey

NHL playoffs

Result from the NHL playoffs conference semifinal games on Wednesday (home team in CAPS):

1 2 3 T

Pittsburgh 1 2 4 7

OTTAWA 2 0 1 3

(Pittsburgh leads best-of-seven series 3-1)

Soccer

AFC Champions League

Round of 16, second leg results on Wednesday:

At Kashiwa

Kashiwa Reysol (JPN) 3 (Hirofumi Watanabe 42, Jorge Wagner 51, Masato Kudo 69) Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors (KOR) 2 (Tatsuya Masushima 22-OG, Kevin Oris 86)

Kashiwa wins 5-2 on aggregate

At Guangzhou

Guangzhou Evergrande (CHN) 3 (Muriqui 7, Dario Conca 45+1, Gao Lin 68) Central Coast Mariners (AUS) 0

Guangzhou wins 5-1 on aggregate

At Doha

Lekhwiya (QAT) 2 (Issiar Dia 14, Mohamed Musa 52) Al Hilal (KSA) 2 (Salman al-Faraj 64, Mohammed al-Shalhoub 78-pen)

Lekhwiya wins 3-2 on aggregate

At Tehran

Esteghlal (IRI) 0 Al Shabab Al Arabi (UAE) 0

Esteghlal wins 4-2 on aggregate

Libertadores Cup

Quarter-final, first leg results on Wednesday:

At the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Cusco

Real Garcilaso (Peru) 1 (Alfredo Ramua 64)Independiente Santa Fe (Colombia) 3 (Francisco Meza 21, Wilder Medina 24, Jefferson Cuero 54)

At the Sao Januario, Rio de Janeiro

Fluminense (Brazil) 0 Olimpia (Paraguay) 0

Tennis

Duesseldorf ATP

Results on Wednesday (x-denotes seedings):

2nd rd

Guido Pella (ARG) bt Janko Tipsarevic (SRB x1) 7-6 (1), 6-1; Viktor Troicki (SRB x7) bt Grega Zemlja (SLO) 6-3, 7-6 (3); Juan Monaco (ARG x3) bt Andre Ghem (BRA) 6-4, 6-4; Tobias Kamke (GER) bt Aljaz Bedene (SLO) 6-1, 6-4; Jan Hajek (CZE) bt Daniel Brands (GER) 6-1, 6-0; Igor Sijsling (NED) bt Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER x4) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4; Jarkko Nieminen (FIN x6) bt Roberto Bautista (ESP) 6-4, 5-7, 6-3; Tommy Haas (GER x2) bt Ivan Dodig (CRO) 3-6, 6-4, 7-5.

ATP Nice Open

Results on Wednesday:

2nd rd

Gilles Simon (FRA x2) bt Guillaume Rufin (FRA) 6-4, 6-3; Albert Montanes (ESP) bt Victor Hanescu (ROM) 7-5, 7-6 (2); Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) bt Carlos Berlocq (ARG) 7-5, 3-6, 6-3; Sam Querrey (USA x3) bt Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR) 7-5, 6-3; Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt Ricardas Berankis (LTU) 2-6, 6-4, 6-2; Robin Haase (NED) bt John Isner (USA x4) 6-4, 1-6, 7-5; Pablo Andujar (ESP) bt Lu Yen-Hsun (TPE) 6-2, 6-0.

WTA Brussels Open

Results on Wednesday:

2nd rd

Zheng Jie (CHN) bt Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x1) 6-2, 6-4; Romina Oprandi (SUI) bt Julia Goerges (GER x6) 6-3 - retired; Sloane Stephens (USA x4) bt Zhang Shuai (CHN) 6-4, 6-0; Peng Shuai(CHN x8) bt Olga Govortsova (BLR) 4-6, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4); Varvara Lepchenko (USA x7) bt Elena Baltacha (GBR) 6-2, 6-0; Kaia Kanepi (EST) bt Jana Cepelov (SVK) 6-3, 6-3.

1st rd

Zheng Jie (CHN) bt Mallory Burdette (USA) 6-2, 4-6, 6-3; Romina Oprandi (SUI) bt Melanie Oudin (USA) 6-2, 6-2; Julia Goerges (GER x6) bt Coco Vandeweghe (USA) 6-1, 7-5; Sloane Stephens (USA x4) bt Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL) 6-3, 2-6, 6-3; Zhang Shuai (CHN) bt Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) 6-1, 6-3; Peng Shuai (CHN x8) bt Sofia Arvidsson (SWE) 6-3, 6-0; Kaia Kanepi (EST) bt Dominika Cibulkova (SVK x3) 6-4, 7-6 (6); Kirsten Flipkens (BEL x5) bt Madison Keys (USA) 6-4, 1-6, 6-2; Jamie Hampton (USA) bt Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) 1-6, 6-3, 6-4; Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) bt Alison Van Uytvanck (BEL) 6-1, 6-0.

WTA Strasbourg International

Results on Wednesday:

2nd rd

Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) bt Camila Giorgi (ITA) 6-3, 6-0; Anna Tatishvili (GEO) bt Monica Niculescu (ROM x5) 4-6, 6-3, 6-2; Alize Cornet (FRA x3) bt Magda Linette (POL) 6-3, 6-4; Chanelle Scheepers (RSA x7) bt Shelby Rogers (USA) 2-6, 6-3, 6-4; Flavia Pennetta (ITA) bt Mara Teresa Torro (ESP) 6-2, 6-3; Misaki Doi (JPN) bt Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE x4) 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (3); Lucie Hradecka (CZE) bt Lauren Davis (USA) 6-2, 6-2; Johanna Larsson (SWE) bt Virginie Razzano (FRA) 6-3, 6-3.

China Daily

(China Daily 05/24/2013 page23)