Score board
Baseball
NEW YORK: Baseball results on Tuesday (home team in CAPS)
BALTIMORE 5 Boston 4
CLEVELAND 4 Oakland 0
PHILADELPHIA 5 Atlanta 4
TAMPA BAY 2 NY Yankees 1 (11 innings)
NY METS 6 Washington 3
CINCINNATI 5 Florida 3
San Diego 4 CHICAGO CUBS 3
MILWAUKEE 5 LA Dodgers 3
TEXAS 5 Seattle 2
KANSAS CITY 3 Detroit 2
Toronto 5 MINNESOTA 3
Pittsburgh 8 ST. LOUIS 4 (10 innings)
ARIZONA 8 Colorado 4
LA ANGELS 2 Chicago White Sox 0
SAN FRANCISCO 4 Houston 2
Standings:
American League
Eastern Division
W L PCT GB
Tampa Bay 23 16 .590 -
Boston 24 18 .571 1/2
Baltimore 20 19 .513 3
NY Yankees 19 21 .475 4 1/2
Toronto 19 22 .463 5
Central Division
Minnesota 20 18 .526 -
Cleveland 20 19 .513 1/2
Chicago White Sox 18 20 .474 2
Kansas City 17 21 .447 3
Detroit 16 23 .410 4 1/2
Western Division
LA Angels 24 17 .585 -
Oakland 23 17 .575 1/2
Texas 20 21 .488 4
Seattle 15 26 .366 9
National League
Eastern Division
Florida 23 16 .590 -
Philadelphia 22 18 .550 1 1/2
NY Mets 20 17 .541 2
Atlanta 19 19 .500 3 1/2
Washington 16 24 .400 7 1/2
Central Division
Chicago Cubs 23 16 .590 -
St. Louis 23 18 .561 1
Houston 22 18 .550 1 1/2
Milwaukee 20 19 .513 3
Pittsburgh 19 20 .487 4
Cincinnati 17 23 .425 6 1/2
Western Division
Arizona 24 15 .615 -
LA Dodgers 19 19 .500 4 1/2
San Francisco 17 23 .425 7 1/2
Colorado 15 24 .385 9
San Diego 15 25 .375 9 1/2
NBA
NEW YORK: NBA playoff results on Tuesday (home team in CAPS)
NEW ORLEANS 101
San Antonio 79
(New Orleans leads the best-of-seven series 3-2)
DETROIT 91
Orlando 86
(Detroit wins the best-of-seven series 4-1)
NHL
NEW YORK: NHL playoffs final result on Tuesday (home team in CAPS)
1 2 3 T
Pittsburgh 2 0 2 4
PHILADELPHIA 1 0 0 1
(Pittsburgh leads best-of-seven series 3-0)
Soccer
English Championship
LONDON: Result of Championship semi-final second leg play-off result on Tuesday:
Bristol City 2 Crystal Palace 1
Bristol City win 4-2 on aggregate
Scottish Premier League
GLASGOW,: Scottish Premier League result on Tuesday:
Gretna 1 (Skelton 90) Hearts 0
Tennis
Hamburg ATP
HAMBURG, Germany: Collated results of the second day of the ATP tournament here on Tuesday (x denotes seeding):
1st rd
Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) bt Rainer Schuttler (GER) 6-1, 6-3; Robin Soderling (SWE) bt Igor Andreev (RUS) 4-6, 6-3, 6-3; Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) bt Alberto Martin (ESP) 6-3, 6-3; Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) bt Andreas Beck (GER) 3-6, 6-3, 6-1; Jose Acasuso (ARG) bt Kristof Vliegen (BEL) 5-2 - retired; Tommy Robredo (ESP x13) bt Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3; Potito Starace (ITA) bt Luis Horna (PER) 6-3, 4-2 - retired; Carlos Moya (ESP x11) bt Julien Benneteau (FRA) 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7)
2nd rd
Fernando Verdasco (ESP) bt Michael Llodra (FRA) 6-2, 6-0; Nikolay Davydenko (RUS x4) bt Ivan Ljubicic (CRO) 6-4, 6-1; David Ferrer (ESP x5) bt Ivo Minar (CZE) 6-3, 6-3; Andreas Seppi (ITA) bt Richard Gasquet (FRA x8) 6-3, 6-2
WTA Rome International
ROME: Results from the 1.34 million dollar WTA Rome International here on Tuesday (x denotes seeding):
1st rd:
Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL) bt Klara Zakopalova (CZE) 6-4, 6-2; Victoria Azarenka (BLR) bt Sybille Bammer (AUT x19) 6-1, 6-3; Roberta Vinci (ITA) bt Kaia Kanepi (EST) 6-4, 4-6, 6-0; Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) bt Gisela Dulko (ARG) 7-6 (1), 6-4.
(China Daily 05/15/2008 page23)
