Baseball

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

Cleveland 9 MINNESOTA 8 (12 innings)

Detroit 6 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 4

Miami 5 KANSAS CITY 2

Cincinnati 5 CHICAGO CUBS 0

COLORADO 4 San Diego 2

ARIZONA 5 Baltimore 4 (14 innings)

NY YANKEES 11 LA Angels 3

WASHINGTON 6 San Francisco 5

TORONTO 4 Boston 3 (10 innings)

ATLANTA 6 Philadelphia 3

TAMPA BAY 5 Seattle 4

TEXAS 5 Milwaukee 4

Pittsburgh 5 ST. LOUIS 1

Houston 2 OAKLAND 1 (11 innings)

LA DODGERS 5 NY Mets 4 (12 innings)

Soccer

International friendlies:

Results on Wednesday:

At Miyagi

Japan 2 (Kagawa 54, Honda 72) Uruguay 4 (Forlan 27, 29, Suarez 52, Gonzalez 58)

At Seoul

South Korea 0 Peru 0

At Kigali

Rwanda 0 Malawi 1 (Nyondo 30-pen)

At El Gouna

Egypt 3 (Koka 22, Salah 57, Sald 83) Uganda 0

At Durban

South Africa 0 Nigeria 2 (Nwofor 49, 68)

At Blida

Algeria 2 (Guedioura 11, Djabou 23) Guinea 2 (Cisse 47, Kalabane 61)

At Tangier

Morocco 1 (Barrada 64) Burkina Faso 2 (Traore 9, 51)

At Tunis

Tunisia 3 (Khazri 7, Jemaa 13, 83) Congo 0

At Paris

Zambia 1 (Mulenga 2) Senegal 1 (N'Doye 8)

At Lisbon

Cape Verde 1 (Heldon 24) Gabon 1 (Manga 53)

At Almaty

Kazakhstan 1 (Khizhnichenko 17) Georgia 0

At Minsk

Belarus 1 (Kislyak 16-pen) Montenegro 1 (Vucinic 62)

At Baku

Azerbaijan 3 (Dadasov 5, 71, Aliyev 62) Malta 0

At Turku

Finland 2 (Moisander 35, Hamalainen 82) Slovenia 0

At Tallinn

Estonia 1 (Kruglov 68) Latvia 1 (Zjuzins 74)

At Copenhagen

Chile 6 (Mena 8, Sanchez 22, 29, Beausejour 37, 45, Henriquez 80) Iraq 0

At Chisinau

Moldova 1 (Dedov 42) Andorra 1 (Sonejee 16)

At Solna

Sweden 4 (Ibrahimovic 2, 29, 58, Svensson 75) Norway 2 (Abdellaoue 38-pen, Johanson 43)

At Luxembourg

Luxembourg 2 (Joachim 49, Bensi 80) Lithuania 1 (Matulevicius 15)

At Barcelona

Colombia 1 (Guarin 89) Serbia 0

At Istanbul

Turkey 2 (Yilmaz 7, Bulut 28) Ghana 2 (Gyan 61, 75)

At Kiev

Ukraine 2 (Rotan 28, Seleznyov 71) Israel 0

At Bucharest

Romania 1 (Stancu 43) Slovakia 1 (Sestak 55)

At Vaduz

Liechenstein 2 (Christen 31, Polverino 7) Croatia 3 (Eduardo 21, 86, Rebic 67)

At Budapest

Hungary 1 (Dzsudzsak 57-pen) Czech Republic 1 (Kozak 23)

At Salzburg

Austria 0 Greece 2 (Mitroglou 39, 67)

At Kaiserslautern

Germany 3 (Gundogan 18, Mueller 31, Bender 75) Paraguay 3 (Nunez 9, Pittoni 13, Samudio 45)

At Rome

Italy 1 (Insigne 76) Argentina 2 (Higuain 20, Banega 49)

At Basel

Switzerland 1 (Alves 48-og) Brazil 0

At Sarajevo

Bosnia & Herzegovina 3 (Dzeko 8, 90, Ibisevic 29) United States 4 (Johnson 55, Altidore 60, 84, 86)

At London

England 3 (Walcott 29, Welbeck 54, Lambert 71) Scotland 2 (Morrison 11, Miller 50)

At Brussels

Belgium 0 France 0

At Cardiff

Wales 0 Republic of Ireland 0

At Gdansk

Poland 3 (Klich 4, Sobota 57, Zielinski 60) Denmark 2 (Eriksen 18, Braithwaite 45)

At Tirana

Albania 2 (Rama 21, Kace 67) Armenia 0

At Skopje

FYR Macedonia 2 (Ibraimi 83, Trajkovski 86) Bulgaria 0

At Faro

Portugal 1 (Ronaldo 86) Netherlands 1 (Strootman 17)

At Reykjavik

Iceland 1 (Bjarnason 65) Faroe Islands 0

At Guayaquil

Ecuador 0 Spain 2 (Negredo 25, Cazorla 63)

At East Rutherfor, New Jersey

Mexico 4 Cote d'Ivoire 1

European zone World Cup qualifying

Result on Wednesday:

Group F

At Belfast

Northern Ireland 1 (Paterson 43) Russia 0

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Portugal 4 2 1 12 6 14

Russia 4 0 2 8 2 12

Israel 3 2 1 15 8 11

Northern Ireland 1 3 2 4 7 6

Azerbaijan 0 4 3 3 9 4

Luxembourg 0 3 3 3 13 3

2015 Asian Cup qualifier

Result on Wednesday:

Singapore 0 Oman 2 (Qasim Said 14, Eid Al Farsi 45)

Brazilian championship

Results on Wednesday:

Atletico Mineiro 2 Esporte Clube Bahia 0

Coritiba 1 Portuguesa 1

Criciuma 3 Nautico 0

Santos 1 Vasco da Gama 1

Vitoria 3 Ponte Preta 1

Tennis

ATP/ WTA Cincinnati

Results on Wednesday from the ATP/WTA Western and Southern Open (x denotes seed):

Men's 2nd round

Andy Murray (GBR x2) bt Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) 6-2, 6-3; Tommy Haas (GER x11) bt Marcel Granollers (ESP) 6-4, 6-1; David Goffin (BEL) bt Vasek Pospisil (CAN) 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 (6); Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG x7) bt Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) 7-5, 7-5; Feliciano Lopez (ESP) bt Jrmy Chardy (FRA) 6-4, 2-2 ret; John Isner (USA) bt Richard Gasquet (FRA x8) 7-6 (6), 6-2; Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Juan Monaco (ARG) 7-5, 6-2; Milos Raonic (CAN x12) bt Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) 6-4, 7-6 (4); Tommy Robredo (ESP) bt Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x9) 7-5, 3-6, 6-3; Rafa Nadal (ESP x4) bt Benjamin Becker (GER) 6-2, 6-2; Tomas Berdych (CZE x6) bt Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) 6-3, 6-2; Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) bt James Blake (USA) 6-4, 6-4.

Women's 2nd round

Samantha Stosur (AUS x11) bt Jamie Hampton (USA) 6-3, 7-6 (3); Sara Errani (ITA x6) bt Polona Hercog (SLO) 6-4, 5-7, 6-4; Roberta Vinci (ITA x12) bt Andrea Petkovic (GER) 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-3; Serena Williams (USA x1) bt Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) 4-6, 6-2, 6-2; Petra Kvitova (CZE x7) bt Marina Erakovic (NZL) 6-4, 6-7 (7), 6-3; Angelique Kerber (GER x9) bt Alisa Kleybanova (RUS) 7-6 (3), 6-2; Mona Barthel (GER) bt Maria Kirilenko (RUS x16) 6-4, 6-4; Elena Vesnina (RUS) bt Venus Williams (USA) 6-2, 5-7, 6-2; Simona Halep (ROM) bt Marion Bartoli (FRA x8) 3-6, 6-4, 6-1; Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x4) bt Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 6-4, 6-0; Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) bt Alize Cornet (FRA) 3-6, 7-5, 7-5; Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x10) bt Monica Niculescu (ROM) 6-4, 6-3; Jelena Jankovic (SRB x14) bt Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) 2-6, 6-3, 6-3; Li Na (CHN x5) bt Lauren Davis (USA) 4-6, 6-1, 6-1.

China Daily

(China Daily 08/16/2013 page23)