Baseball

NEW YORK: Baseball results on Wednesday (home team in CAPS):

CINCINNATI 9 Chicago Cubs 0

NY Mets 12 LA DODGERS 1

OAKLAND 6 Baltimore 5 (10 innings)

ATLANTA 5 San Diego 2

Cleveland 3 NY YANKEES 0

DETROIT 10 Boston 9

PITTSBURGH 3 San Francisco 1

TORONTO 6 Tampa Bay 2

FLORIDA 6 Milwaukee 2

HOUSTON 4 Washington 3

KANSAS CITY 9 LA Angels 4

Minnesota 13 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 1

COLORADO 4 St. Louis 3

Philadelphia 5 ARIZONA 4

Texas 2 SEATTLE 0

NBA

NEW YORK: NBA playoff second-round results on Wednesday (home team in CAPS)

1 2 3 4 T

ORLANDO 30 24 19 38 111

Detroit 16 26 27 17 86

(Detroit leads best-of-seven series 2-1)

1 2 3 4 T

LA LAKERS 33 30 30 27 120

Utah 18 31 34 27 110

(LA Lakers leads best-of-seven series 2-0)

Thursday, May 8

Cleveland at Boston

New Orleans at San Antonio

SOCCER

French Cup

PARIS: French Cup result on Wednesday:

Semifinal

Lyon 1 (Juninho 88) Sedan 0

Tuesday

Amiens 0 Paris Saint Germain 1 (Boli 78)

Italian Cup

ROME: Italian Cup result on Wednesday:

Lazio 0 Inter Milan 2 (Pele 52, Cruz 84)

Inter win 2-0 on aggregate

Playing Thursday

Catania v Roma

Roma lead 1-0 from first leg

Scottish Premier League

GLASGOW: Scottish Premier League result on Wednesday:

Rangers 1 (Ferguson 74) Motherwell 0

Spanish league

MADRID: Spanish league results on Wednesday:

Real Betis 1 (Gonzalez 50) Valladolid 1 (Victor 63)

Getafe 4 (Albin 32, Manu 62, 68, Granero 75-pen) Almeria 2 (Crusat 4, Paunovic 11)

Recreativo Huelva 0 Villarreal 2 (Nihat 52, Franco 83)

Deportivo La Coruna 1 (Riki 88) Levante 0

Valencia 1 (Silva 20) Real Zaragoza 0

Real Mallorca 2 (Guiza 32, Trejo 89) Osasuna 1 (Portillo 73)

Real Murcia 1 (Alonso 17) Athletic Bilbao 2 (Llorente 32, Gabilondo 82)

Racing Santander 0 Sevilla 3 (Fazio 29, 65, Renato 90)

Real Madrid 4 (Raul 12, Robben 20, Higuain 62, van Nistelrooy 77-pen) Barcelona 1 (Henry 86)

Thursday

Espanyol v Atletico Madrid (2000 GMT)

Standings

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Real Madrid 26 3 7 77 32 81 - champions

Villarreal 22 5 9 59 40 71

Barcelona 18 10 8 69 37 64

Atletico Madrid 17 7 11 62 44 58

Sevilla 18 4 14 69 48 58

Racing Santander 16 8 12 41 41 56

Real Mallorca 13 14 9 63 50 53

La Coruna 15 7 14 46 44 52

Athletic Bilbao 13 10 13 39 39 49

Almeria 13 10 13 39 42 49

Espanyol 13 9 13 42 46 48

Real Betis 12 10 14 44 48 46

Valencia 13 6 17 40 60 45

Getafe 12 9 15 43 47 45

Valladolid 11 10 15 41 56 43

Real Zaragoza 10 11 15 46 56 41

Recreativo Huelva 10 10 16 37 59 40

Osasuna 11 7 18 35 42 40

Murcia 7 9 20 32 58 30 - relegated

Levante 7 5 24 30 65 26 - relegated

Note: standings of teams on the same points are decided by head-to-head results.

Tennis

Rome Masters

ROME: Results from the Rome Masters here on Wednesday (x denotes seeding):

2nd rd

Novak Djokovic (SRB x3) bt Steve Darcis (BEL) 6-4, 6-0 ; Nicolas Almagro (ESP) bt David Nalbandian (ARG x7) 6-4, 7-5; Radek Stepanek (CZE) bt David Ferrer (ESP x5) 4-6, 6-2, 6-1; Luis Horna (PER) bt Jose Acasuso (ARG) 6-3, 7-6 (7/1) ; Nikolay Davydenko (RUS x4) bt Mario Ancic (CRO) 6-2, 6-2; Fernando Gonzalez (CHI x12) bt Evgeny Korolev (RUS) 6-3, 6-2; James Blake (USA x8) bt Andrea Seppi (ITA) 7-6 (7/5), 3-6, 6-1; Igor Andreev (RUS) bt Juan Monaco (ARG x13) 4-6, 6-1, 6-4; Simon Bolelli (ITA) bt Gilles Simon (FRA) 6-4, 6-4; Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP) bt Rafael Nadal (ESP x2) 7-5, 6-1; Fernando Verdasco (ESP) bt Nicolas Lapentti (ECU) 6-2, 5-7, 6-2; Tommy Robredo (ESP x14) bt Nicolas Mahut (FRA) 7-5, 7-6 (7/5); Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) bt Andy Murray (GBR x16) 6-2, 7-6 (7/5); Ivo Karlovic (CRO) bt Potito Starace (ITA) 6-3, 6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (7/3).

German Open

BERLIN: Results of the WTA tournament here at the Steffi Graf Stadium on Wednesday:

2nd rd

Justine Henin (BEL x1) bt Yung-Jan Chan (TPE) 6-0, 6-2; Dinara Safina (RUS x13) bt Kaia Kanepi (EST) 6-4, 6-3; Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x11) bt Angelika Bachmann (GER) 6-1, 6-1; Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS x3) bt Catalina Castano (COL) 6-3, 6-2; Alona Bondarenko (UKR x15) bt Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) 7-5, 0-6, 6-3; Gisela Dulko (ARG) bt Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) 6-2, 7-5; Victoria Azarenka (BLR) bt Anna Chakvetadze (RUS x6) 1-6, 7-6 (7/1), 6-4; Vera Dushevina (RUS) bt Alisa Kleybanova (RUS) 6-2, 4-6, 6-3; Maria Kirilenko (RUS) bt Nadia Petrova (RUS x16) 6-3, 6-3; Agnes Szavay (HUN) bt Zi Yan (CHN) 6-1, 6-1; Jelena Jankovic (SRB x4) bt Peng Shuai (CHN) 7-5, 6-0; Sybille Bammer (AUT) bt Sabine Lisicki (GER) 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (7/5); Ana Ivanovic (SRB x2) bt Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB) 7-6 (7/0), 6-2.

(China Daily 05/09/2008 page23)