Score board
Baseball
NEW YORK: Results of the Major League Baseball games on Tuesday (Home teams in CAPS):
CLEVELAND 8 Chicago White Sox 2
PHILADELPHIA 7 Colorado 4
CHICAGO CUBS 3 LA Dodgers 1
Texas 12 TAMPA BAY 6
NY METS 5 Florida 3
CINCINNATI 9 Pittsburgh 6
MILWAUKEE 3 Atlanta 2
Houston 8 ST. LOUIS 2
San Francisco 6 ARIZONA 3
SAN DIEGO 4 Washington 2
LA ANGELS 3 Detroit 2
OAKLAND 3 Toronto 1
SEATTLE 4 Boston 3
BALTIMORE 10 NY Yankees 9 (11 innings)
Minnesota 4 KANSAS CITY 3 (12 innings)
Standings:
American League
Eastern Division
W L PCT GB
Tampa Bay 31 21 .596 -
Boston 32 23 .582 0 1/2
Toronto 28 26 .519 4
Baltimore 26 25 .510 4 1/2
NY Yankees 25 27 .481 6
Central Division
Chicago White Sox 28 23 .549 -
Minnesota 26 25 .510 2
Cleveland 24 28 .462 4 1/2
Detroit 21 31 .404 7 1/2
Kansas City 21 31 .404 7 1/2
Western Division
LA Angels 32 22 .593 -
Oakland 29 23 .558 2
Texas 27 27 .500 5
Seattle 19 34 .358 12 1/2
National League
Eastern Division
Florida 30 21 .588 -
Philadelphia 30 24 .556 1 1/2
Atlanta 28 24 .538 2 1/2
NY Mets 24 26 .480 5 1/2
Washington 22 31 .415 9
Central Division
Chicago Cubs 31 21 .596 -
Houston 30 23 .566 1 1/2
St. Louis 30 23 .566 1 1/2
Milwaukee 25 27 .481 6
Pittsburgh 24 27 .471 6 1/2
Cincinnati 24 28 .462 7
Western Division
Arizona 30 22 .577 -
LA Dodgers 26 25 .510 3 1/2
San Francisco 21 31 .404 9
Colorado 20 32 .385 10
San Diego 20 33 .377 10 1/2
NBA
WASHINGTON: Results from the NBA semifinals on Tuesday (all series best-of-seven):
Western Conference
at San Antonio
Los Angeles Lakers 93 San Antonio 91
(Los Angeles leads series 3-1)
SOCCER
PARIS: Results of the international soccer matches on Tuesday (Home teams listed first):
Friendlies
Austria 1 Nigeria 1
Czech Republic 2 Lithuania 0
Estonia 1 Georgia 1
France 2 Ecuador 0
Germany 2 Belarus 2
India 2 Chinese Taipei 2
Luxembourg 1 Cape Verde Islands 1
Montenegro 3 Kazakhstan 0
Qatar 2 Lebanon 1
Saudi Arabia 2 Kuwait 1
At Reutlingen, Germany: Poland 1 Albania 0
Kirin Cup
Japan 0 Paraguay 0
Tennis
French Open
PARIS: French Open results on Tuesday, the rain-affected third day of the second Grand Slam tournament of the season at Roland Garros (x denotes seeded player):
Men's 1st rd
Nikolay Davydenko (RUS x4) bt Thomas Johansson (SWE) 6-3, 6-3, 6-3; Robin Soderling (SWE) bt Juan Monaco (ARG x13) 6-2, 6-3, 6-1; Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x9) bt Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) 6-3, 6-4, 6-3; Paul Capdeville (CHI) bt Mischa Zverev (GER) 6-1, 6-4, 6-2; Mario Ancic (CRO) bt Andreas Seppi (ITA x31) 6-2, 7-6 (7/1), 6-2.
Women's 1st rd
Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS x4) bt Aiko Nakamura (JPN) 6-2, 6-3; Dinara Safina (RUS x13) bt Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) 6-1, 6-3; Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x14) bt Mariya Koryttseva (UKR) 6-4, 6-3; Ai Sugiyama (JPN x31) bt Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) 6-1, 2-6, 6-3; Sabine Lisicki (GER) bt Elena Vesnina (RUS) 3-6, 6-4, 6-0; Olivia Sanchez (FRA) bt Jarmila Gajdosova (SVK) 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (10/8); Amelie Mauresmo (FRA x22) bt Olga Savchuk (UKR) 7-5, 4-6, 6-1; Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) bt Pauline Parmentier (FRA) 6-4, 5-7, 6-2.
Yesterday's matches
Men 1st rd
Marcos Daniel (BRA) bt Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP x23) 6-7 (5/7), 2-2 abandon; Radek Stepanek (CZE x21) bt Gilles Simon (FRA) 6-2, 6-4, 6-1; Jurgen Melzer (AUT) bt Peter Luczak (AUS) 6-3, 6-2, 6-4; Lleyton Hewitt (AUS x25) bt Nicolas Mahut (FRA) 6-4, 6-2, 6-4;
Women 1st rd
Francesca Schiavone (ITA x18) bt Jill Craybas (USA) 6-3, 6-2; Sanda Mamic (CRO) bt Michaella Krajicek (NED) 6-4, 6-3; Bethanie Mattek (USA) bt Madison Brengle (USA) 6-3, 2-6, 6-4; Marta Domachowska (POL) bt Rossana De Los Rios (PAR) 3-6, 6-3, 6-1; Maria Sharapova (RUS x1) bt Evgeniya Rodina (RUS) 6-1, 3-6, 8-6.
(China Daily 05/29/2008 page19)
