Baseball

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

BALTIMORE 9 Boston 1

CLEVELAND 8 Kansas City 5

Cincinnati 1 PITTSBURGH 0

NY Yankees 11 TORONTO 4

MIAMI 2 Philadelphia 1

NY Mets 3 ATLANTA 1

LA Angels 7 TEXAS 4

CHICAGO WHITE SOX 3 Tampa Bay 1 MINNESOTA 4 Detroit 2

Houston 7 MILWAUKEE 6

ST. LOUIS 12 Washington 2

ARIZONA 8 Chicago Cubs 3

OAKLAND 8 Seattle 2

San Francisco 3 SAN DIEGO 1

LA DODGERS 8 Colorado 0

Golf

Ryder Cup

CHICAGO, Illinois - Collated scores in Friday afternoon's session of fourballs counting towards the 39th Ryder Cup between the United States and Europe at Medinah Country Club outside Chicago:-

Overall Score: United States 5 Europe 3

Fourballs

Bubba Watson/Webb Simpson (USA) bt Paul Lawrie/Peter Hanson (Europe) 5 and 4

Keegan Bradley/Phil Mickelson (USA) bt Rory McIlroy/Graeme McDowell (Europe) 2 and 1

Dustin Johnson/Matt Kuchar (USA) bt Justin Rose/Martin Kaymer (Europe) 3 and 2

Tiger Woods/Steve Stricker (USA) lost to Nicolas Colsaerts/Lee Westwood (Europe) by one hole

Score: United States 3 Europe 1

Foursomes morning scores

Phil Mickelson/Keegan Bradley (USA) bt Luke Donald/Sergio Garcia (Europe) 4 and 3

Jim Furyk/Brandt Snedeker (USA) lost to Rory McIlroy/Graeme McDowell (Europe) by 1 hole.

Jason Dufner/Zach Johnson (USA) bt Lee Westwood/Francesco Molinari (Europe) 3 and 2

Steve Stricker/Tiger Woods (USA) lost to Ian Poulter/Justin Rose (Europe) 2 and 1

Score: United States 2 Europe 2

Soccer

German league

Result on Friday:

Fortuna Dusseldorf 2 (Schahin 48, 77) Schalke 04 2 (Huntelaar 13, Matip 20)

Tennis

Thailand Open

Results on the fifth day on Friday (x denotes seeding):

Quarterfinals

Gilles Simon (FRA x4) bt Gael Monfils (FRA) 6-4, 6-1; Janko Tipsarevic (SRB x1) bt Fernando Verdasco (ESP x5) 7-6 (7/5), 6-4; Richard Gasquet (FRA x2) bt Bernard Tomic (AUS x8) 7-6 (7/5), 6-4; Jarkko Nieminen (FIN x7) bt Milos Raonic (CAN x3) 6-3, 7-6 (7/3)

ATP Malaysian Open

Results on Friday (x denotes seeding):

QuarterFinals

Kei Nishikori (JPN x3) bt Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) 6-4, retired; Juan Monaco (ARG x2) bt Vasek Pospisil (CAN) 6-3, 6-4; Julien Benneteau (FRA x7) bt Alejandro Falla (COL) 6-2, 6-2; David Ferrer (ESP x1) bt Igor Sijsling (NED) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4

(China Daily 09/30/2012 page12)