Baseball

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

CHICAGO CUBS 6 San Francisco 4 WASHINGTON 10 St. Louis 0

Baltimore 6 NY YANKEES 1

Texas 5 CLEVELAND 3

DETROIT 7 Chicago White Sox 4

TORONTO 2 Tampa Bay 1

NY Mets 3 MIAMI 0

Philadelphia 8 ATLANTA 5 (10 innings) Cincinnati 9 HOUSTON 3

MILWAUKEE 9 Pittsburgh 3

San Diego 5 COLORADO 4

OAKLAND 20 Boston 2

LA Angels 9 SEATTLE 1

Golf

Deutsche Bank Championship

Leading first-round scores on Friday in the $8 million Deutsche Bank Championship, the second event in the US PGA Tour playoffs (USA unless noted, par-71):

62 - Seung-Yul Noh (KOR)

63 - Chris Kirk

64 - Tiger Woods, Jeff Overton, Ryan Moore

65 - Rory McIlroy (NIR), Bryce Molder

66 - John Senden (AUS), Louis Oosthuizen (RSA)

67 - Ian Poulter (ENG), Luke Donald (ENG), Dustin Johnson, Charley Hoffman. Jonas Blixt (SWE), David Hearn (CAN), Jason Dufner

68 - Charl Schwartzel (RSA), D.A. Points, Bud Cauley, Lee Westwood (ENG), Aaron Baddeley (AUS), Jason Day (AUS), John Merrick, Kevin Stadler, Phil Mickelson, Hunter Mahan

69 - J.J. Henry, Kevin Na, William McGirt, Adam Scott (AUS), Steve Stricker, Webb Simpson, Bo Van Pelt, Brandt Snedeker, Ted Potter, Greg Owen (ENG), Blake Adams, Dicky Pride, Pat Perez, Tom Gillis, John Rollins, Greg Chalmers (AUS), Ernie Els (RSA), Jim Furyk, Sang-Moon Bae (KOR)

European Masters

European Masters second round scores at Crans-sur-Sierre here on Friday (Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 71):

(Note: Second round play abandoned due to poor visibility. 6 players will finish their second round on Saturday morning)

133 - Julien Quesne (FRA) 68 65

134 - Danny Willett 67 67

135 - Paul Lawrie 69 66

136 - Robert Coles 66 70, Tommy Fleetwood 70 66, David Howell 66 70, Marcus Fraser (AUS) 68 68

137 - Felipe Aguilar (CHI) 68 69, Richie Ramsay 69 68, Romain Wattel (FRA) 67 70, Jaco Van Zyl (RSa) 69 68

138 - Anders Hansen (DEN) 68 70, Graeme Storm 68 70, Oliver Fisher 65 73, Peter Hanson (SWE) 69 69, Stephen Gallacher 67 71, Scott Barr (AUS) 66 72, Richard Finch 70 68, Michael Jonzon (SWE) 71 67, Jamie Donaldson 69 69, Gregory Bourdy (FRa) 63 75, Bernd Wiesberger (AUT) 68 70, Michael Hoey 70 68, Thomas Levet (FRA) 68 70, Fredrik Andersson Hed (SWE) 65 73

Soccer

European SuperCup

Result on Friday:

Atletico Madrid (ESP) 4 (Falcao 7, 19, 45, Miranda 60) Chelsea (ENG) 1 (Cahill 75)

Tennis

US Open

Results from the fifth day of the US Open on on Friday (x denotes seeding):

Men's 2nd rd

Novak Djokovic (SRB x2) bt Rogerio Dutra Silva (BRA) 6-2, 6-1, 6-2; David Ferrer (ESP x4) bt Igor Sijsling (NED) 6-2, 6-3, 7-6 (12); Leonardo Mayer (ARG) bt Tommy Robredo (ESP) 6-1, 6-4, 4-6, 7-5; Steve Johnson (USA) bt Ernests Gulbis (LAT) 6-7 (3), 7-6 (5), 6-3, 6-4; Richard Gasquet (FRA x13) bt Bradley Klahn (USA) 6-3, 6-3, 6-1; Juan Martin del Potro (ARG x7) bt Ryan Harrison (USA) 6-2, 6-3, 2-6, 6-2; Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) bt Gilles Muller (LUX) 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-7 (5), 7-5, 6-4; Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x18) bt Steve Darcis (BEL) 6-7 (6/8), 6-3, 4-6, 6-1, 7-5; Alexander Dolgopolov (UKR x14) bt Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) 6-4, 3-6, 6-0, 7-6 (5); John Isner (USA x9) bt Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-3; Janko Tipsarevic (SRB x8) bt Brian Baker (USA) 6-4, 6-3, 6-4; Fabio Fognini (ITA) bt Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 6-4, 6-4, 6-2; Grega Zemlja (SLO) bt Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (GER) 6-2, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4; Andy Roddick (USA x20) bt Bernard Tomic (AUS) 6-3, 6-4, 6-0; Julien Benneteau (FRA x31) bt Dennis Novikov (USA) 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (1), 7-5; Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER x19) bt Benoit Paire (FRA) 6-7 (4), 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, 7-6 (4)

Women's 3rd rd

Laura Robson (GBR) bt Li Na (CHN x9) 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-2; Samantha Stosur (AUS x7) bt Varvara Lepchenko (USA x31) 7-6 (5), 6-2; Marion Bartoli (FRA x11) bt Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 6-2, 6-4; Petra Kvitova (CZE x5) bt Pauline Parmentier (FRA) 6-4, 6-4; Maria Sharapova (RUS x3) bt Mallory Burdette (USA) 6-1, 6-1; Nadia Petrova (RUS x19) bt Lucie Safarova (CZE x15) 6-4, 7-5; Ana Tatishvili (GEO) bt Mandy Minella (LUX) 7-5, 6-0; Victoria Azarenka (BLR x1) bt Zheng Jie (CHN x28) 6-0, 6-1.

(China Daily 09/02/2012 page7)