Baseball

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

Pittsburgh 11 NY METS 2

Toronto 3 BOSTON 2

]ST. LOUIS 3 Colorado 0

Chicago Cubs 8 WASHINGTON 2

SAN FRANCISCO 10 Atlanta 1

CINCINNATI 13 Milwaukee 7

TAMPA BAY 8 San Diego 7

Cleveland 7 DETROIT 6

LA Angels 3 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 2

NY Yankees 3 KANSAS CITY 2

MINNESOTA 8 Baltimore 5

Texas 8 HOUSTON 7

Philadelphia 3 ARIZONA 1

Oakland 4 SEATTLE 3

LA DODGERS 7 Miami 1

Basketball

Results on Saturday from the second round of the NBA playoffs (all series best-of-seven):

Western Conference

at Memphis

Memphis 87 Oklahoma City 81

(Memphis leads series 2-1)

Eastern Conference

at Indianapolis

Indiana 82 New York 71

(Indiana leads series 2-1)

Cycling

Giro d'Italia

Results from the Giro d'Italia eighth stage, a 54.8 kilometre time trial between Gabicce Mare and Saltara on Saturday:

1. Alex Dowsett (GBR/MOV) 1hr 16min 27sec

2. Bradley Wiggins (GBR/SKY) at 0:10s

3. Tanel Kangert (EST/AST) 0:14.

4. Vincenzo Nibali (ITA/AST) 0:21.

5. Stef Clement (NED/BLA) 0:32.

6. Luke Durbridge (AUS/ORI) 0:35.

7. Cadel Evans (AUS/BMC) 0:39.

8. Manuele Boaro (ITA/SAX) 0:45.

9. Sergio Henao (COL/SKY) 0:53.

10. Michele Scarponi (ITA/LAM) 0:53.

Overall

1. Vincenzo Nibali (ITA/AST) 29h46:57.

2. Cadel Evans (AUS/BMC) 0:29.

3. Robert Gesink (NED/BLA) 1:15.

4. Bradley Wiggins (GBR/SKY) 1:16.

5. Michele Scarponi (ITA/LAM) 1:24.

6. Ryder Hesjedal (CAN/GRM) 2:05.

7. Sergio Henao (COL/SKY) 2:11.

8. Mauro Santambrogio (ITA/FAR) 2:43.

9. Przemyslaw Niemec (POL/LAM) 2:44.

10. Rigoberto Uran (COL/SKY) 2:49.

Ice hockey

Result from on Saturday from the quarterfinals of the NHL playoffs (home team in CAPS):

Pittsburgh 4 NY ISLANDERS 3

(Pittsburgh win the best-of-seven series by 4-2)

Soccer

FA Cup

Saturday's final result:

Manchester City 0 Wigan Athletic 1 (Watson 90+1)

French Ligue 1

Saturday's results:

Marseille 2 (A. Ayew 45, 62) Toulouse 1 (Eden Ben Basat 82)

Valenciennes 4 (Melikson 39, Rose 68, Lala 83, J. Saez 90+1) Rennes 1 (Pitroipa 30)

Ajaccio 0 Troyes 1 (Jarjat 17)

Bordeaux 3 (Biyogo Poko 41, Saivet 45, Diabate 86) Nancy 2 (Karaboue 65, Sane 80)

Brest 0 Sochaux 2 (Privat 48, 81)

Bastia 3 (Beauvue 16, Modeste 32, 87) Montpellier 1 (Utaka 31)

German Bundesliga

Saturday's results:

Bayer Leverkusen 3 (Hegeler 6, 60, Kiessling 28) Hannover 96 1 (Sobiech 71)

Bayern Munich 3 (Mueller 69, Shaqiri 82, Luiz Gustavo 87) FC Augsburg 0

Fortuna Duesseldorf 1 (Balitsch og-22) FC Nuremberg 2 (Mak 58, Plattenhardt 64)

Greuther Fuerth 1 (Zimmermann 3) SC Freiburg 2 (Schmid 69, Kruse 78)

Hoffenheim 1 (Volland 61) Hamburg SV 4 (Son 18, Aogo 35, Jiracek 60, Rudnevs 88)

Mainz 05 2 (Parker 12, Ivanschitz pen-90) 2 Borussia Moenchengladbach 4 (Hrgota 39, 59, 80, Hanke 65)

Schalke 04 1 (Ulreich og-90) VfB Stuttgart 2 (Ibisevic 24, 66)

Wolfsburg 3 (Perisic 14, 22, Naldo 26) Borussia Dortmund 3 (Bender 5, Reus 84, 87)

Werder Bremen 1 (De Bruyne 22) Eintracht Frankfurt 1 (Lakic 51)

Italian league

Saturday's results:

Juventus 1 (Vucinic 61) Cagliari 1 (Ibarbo 12)

Catania 1 (Gomez 51) Pescara 0

Portuguese league

Saturday's results:

Rio Ave 2 (Rodriguez 21, Hassan 81-pen) Gil Vicente 1 (Vilela 66)

Moreirense 2 (Olivera 10, Vinicius 61) Vitoria Setubal 1 (Lopes Correia 5)

Sporting Braga 1 (Viana 35) Nacional 3 (Keita 76, Candeias 79, Mateus 80)

Academica Coimbra 1 (Edinho 72-pen) Pa?os de Ferreira 1 (Manuel Jose 55)

Estoril 2 (Lica 32, Rego 86-og) Beira Mar 1 (Abalo 28)

Sporting Lisbon 1 (Capel 72) Olhanense 0

Martimo Funchal 1 (Danilo 25) Vitoria Guimaraes 0

FC Porto 2 (Maxi Pereira 25-og, Kelvin 90+2) Benfica 1 (Lima 19)

Scottish Premier League

Saturday's results:

Celtic 4 (Ledley 2, Mulgrew 36, Forrest 51, Wright og-90) St Johnstone 0

Dundee 2 (Conroy 19, Stewart 83), Kilmarnock 3 (McKenzie 4, Johnston 58, Clingan 73)

Inverness Caledonian Thistle 1 (Doran 42) Dundee United 2 (Gow 50, Mackay-Steven 90+1)

St Mirren 0 Aberdeen 0

Spanish league

Saturday's results:

Athletic Bilbao 2 (Aduriz 8, Llorente 79) Mallorca 1 (Dos Santos 81)

Valladolid 1 (Javi Guerra 48) Deportivo la Coruna 0

Osasuna 1 (Arribas 74) Getafe 0

Espanyol 1 (Stuani 23) Real Madrid 1 (Higuain 58)

Tennis

Madrid Masters/Madrid Open

Saturday's results (x denotes seeding):

Men's singles semifinals

Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x15) bt Tomas Berdych (CZE x6) 6-3, 4-6, 6-4; Rafael Nadal (ESP x5) bt Pablo Andujar (ESP) 6-0, 6-4

Women's singles semifinals

Serena Williams (USA x1) bt Sara Errani (ITA x7) 7-5, 6-2; Maria Sharapova (RUS x2) bt Ana Ivanovic (SRB x16) 6-4, 6-3.

(China Daily 05/13/2013 page23)