Baseball

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

San Diego 8 PHILADELPHIA 2

LA Angels 12 TORONTO 6

Washington 6 NY METS 3

NY Yankees 7 BALTIMORE 5

Kansas City 6 CLEVELAND 3

Chicago Cubs 9 CINCINNATI 1

Atlanta 4 MIAMI 3

Boston 2 TAMPA BAY 0Pittsburgh 5 TEXAS 4

Detroit 9 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 1

MINNESOTA 4 Oakland 3

ST. LOUIS 4 Milwaukee 2

LA DODGERS 5 Arizona 3 (11 innings)

Houston 13 SEATTLE 2

Colorado 9 SAN FRANCISCO 8

Soccer

European zone World Cup qualifiers

Results on Tuesday:

Group A

At Skopje: Macedonia 1 (Kostovski 84) Scotland 2 (Anya 60, Maloney 89)

At Cardiff: Wales 0 Serbia 3 (Djordjevic 8, Kolarov 38, Markovic 55)

Standings

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Belgium 7 1 0 15 2 22

Croatia 5 2 1 11 5 17

Serbia 3 2 4 13 10 11

Scotland 2 2 5 6 12 8

Macedonia 2 1 5 6 10 7

Wales 2 0 6 7 19 6

Group B

At Yerevan: Armenia 0 Denmark 1 (Agger 73-pen)

At Turin, Italy: Italy 2 (Chiellini 51, Balotelli 54-pen) Czech Republic 1 (Kozak 19)

At Ta'Qali, Malta: Malta 1 (Herrera 78) Bulgaria 2 (Dimitrov 9, Gargorov 59)

Standings

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Italy 6 2 0 15 5 20

Bulgaria 3 4 1 13 6 13

Denmark 3 3 2 9 10 12

Czech Rep 2 3 3 8 8 9

Armenia 3 0 5 8 10 9

Malta 1 0 7 4 18 3

Group C

At Astana: Kazakhstan 0 Sweden 1 (Ibrahimovic 1)

At Vienna: Austria 1 (Alaba 84) Republic of Ireland 0

At Torshavn, Faroe Islands: Faroe Islands 0 Germany 3 (Mertesacker 23, Ozil 74-pen, Mueller 84)

Standings

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Germany 7 1 0 28 7 22

Sweden 5 2 1 14 8 17

Austria 4 2 2 16 8 14

Rep of Ireland 3 2 3 13 13 11

Kazakhstan 1 1 6 4 17 4

Faroe Islands 0 0 8 3 25 0

Group D

At Bucharest: Romania 0 Turkey 2 (B. Yilmaz 22, Erding 90+5)

At Andorra la Vella: Andorra 0 Netherlands 2 (van Persie 50, 54)

At Budapest: Hungary 5 (Klavan 11-o.g., Hajnal 21, Bode 41, Nemeth 69, Dzsudzsak 85) Estonia 1 (Kink 48)

Standings

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Netherlands 7 1 0 24 4 22

Hungary 4 2 2 18 12 14

Turkey 4 1 3 14 7 13

Romania 4 1 3 13 12 13

Estonia 2 1 5 6 16 7

Andorra 0 0 8 0 24 0

Group E

At Oslo: Norway 0 Switzerland 2 (Schaer 12, 51)

At Nicosia: Cyprus 0 Slovenia 2 (Novakovic 12, Ilicic 80)

At Rejkjavik: Iceland 2 (Bjarnason 14, Sigthorson 47) Albania 1 (Rama 9)

Standings

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Switzerland 5 3 0 14 5 18

Iceland 4 1 3 14 14 13

Slovenia 4 0 4 11 10 12

Norway 3 2 3 9 9 11

Albania 3 1 4 8 9 10

Cyprus 1 1 6 4 13 4

Group F

At St Petersburg, Russia: Russia 3 (V. Berezutsky 49, Kokorin 52, Glushakov 74) Israel 1 (Zahavi 90+3)

At Luxembourg: Luxembourg 3 (Joachim 45+2, Bensi 78, Jaenisch 87) Northern Ireland 2 (Paterson 14, McAuley 82)

Standings

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Russia 6 0 2 15 4 18

Portugal 5 2 1 16 8 17

Israel 3 3 2 17 12 12

N. Ireland 1 3 4 8 14 6

Luxembourg 1 3 4 7 19 6

Azerbaijan 0 5 3 4 10 5

Group G

At Marijampole, Lithuania: Lithuania 2 (Matulevicius 18, Kijanskas 40) Liechtenstein 0

At Piraeus, Greece: Greece 1 (Salpingidis 58) Latvia 0

At Zilina, Slovakia: Slovakia 1 (Hamsik 42) Bosnia-Herzegovina 2 (Bicakcic 70, Hajrovic 78)

Standings

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Bosnia-Herzegovina 6 1 1 25 5 19

Greece 6 1 1 9 4 19

Slovakia 3 3 2 9 7 12

Lithuania 2 2 4 7 10 8

Latvia 2 1 5 8 16 7

Liechtenstein 0 2 6 3 19 2

Group H

At Kiev: Ukraine 0 England 0

At Serravalle, San Marino: San Marino 1 (Alessandro Della Valle 22) Poland 5 (Zielinski 10, 66, Blaszczykowski 23, Sobota 33, Mierzejewski 75)

Standings

W D L Gf Ga Pts

England 4 4 0 25 3 16

Ukraine 4 3 1 19 4 15

Montngro 4 3 1 15 8 15

Poland 3 4 1 18 9 13

Moldova 1 2 5 4 15 5

San Marino 0 0 8 1 43 0

Group I

At Tbilisi: Georgia 0 Finland 1 (Eremenko 74-pen)

At Gomel, Belarus: Belarus 2 (Filipenko 32, Kalachev 57) France 4 (Ribery 47-pen, 64, Nasri 70, Pogba 73)

Standings

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Spain 4 2 0 10 2 14

France 4 2 1 12 6 14

Finland 2 3 2 5 6 9

Georgia 1 2 4 3 8 5

Belarus 1 1 5 6 14 4

South America World Cup qualifiers

Result on Tuesday:

At La Paz

Bolivia 1 (Iriondo 47) Ecuador 1 (Caicedo 58-pen)

At Montevideo

Uruguay 2 (Cavani 77, Stuani 80) Colombia 0

At Puerto de la Cruz

Venezuela 3 (Rondon 37, Gonzalez 62pen, Otero 77) Peru 2 (Hurtado 20, Zambrano 89)

At Asuncion

Paraguay 2 (Nunez 18, Santa Cruz 86) Argentina 5 (Messi 12-pen, 52-pen, Aguero 32, Di Maria 50, Rodriguez 90)

Standings

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Argentina 8 5 1 30 11 29

Colombia 8 2 4 22 9 26

Chile 8 0 6 24 21 24

Ecuador 6 4 4 18 14 22

Uruguay 6 4 4 22 22 22

Venezuela 5 4 6 13 19 19

Peru 4 2 8 15 22 14

Bolivia 2 5 8 16 29 11

Paraguay 3 2 9 15 28 11

Note: The top four teams will advance to the 2014 finals in Brazil while the fifth-placed side will face Jordan in a two-legged playoff for a berth in the tournament.

CONCACAF World Cup qualifiers

Results on Tuesday:

At Columbus: USA 2 (E. Johnson 50, Donovan 78) Mexico 0

At Kingston: Costa Rica 1 (Brenes 75) Jamaica 1 (Anderson 90)

Honduras 2 (Costly 27, Palacios 61) Panama 2 (Torres 50, 90)

Standings

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Q-United States 5 1 2 10 6 16

Q-Costa Rica 4 3 1 11 5 15

Honduras 3 2 3 10 10 10

Panama 1 5 2 7 9 8

Mexico 1 5 2 4 6 8

Jamaica 0 4 4 3 9 4

(Top 3 teams advance to World Cup; 4th team plays New Zealand in playoff)

Asian zone World Cup playoff

Result on Tuesday:

Second leg

Uzbekistan 1 (Anzur Ismailov 5) Jordan 1 (Saeed Murjan 42), AET

First leg: 1-1

Jordan won 9-8 on penalties

International friendlies

Results on Tuesday:

Brazil 3 (Silva 24, Neymar 35, Jo 49) Portugal 1 (Meireles 18)

South Africa 1 (Parker 90+6) Zimbabwe 2 (Musona 51, Malaljila 90+5)

Nigeria 4 (Ideye 12, 42, Ameobi 53, Emenike 63) Burkina Faso 1 (Simpore 76)

Spain 2 (Soldado 38, Navas 90+2) Chile 2 (Vargas 6, 44)

Canada 0 Mauritania 1 (Ba 53)

Japan 3 (Kagawa 50, Endo 64, Honda 72) Ghana 1 (Frank Acheampong 24)

South Korea 1 (Lee Keun-ho 90) Croatia 2 (Vida 65, Kalinic 71)

China 2 (Zheng Zhi 43, Zhao Xuri 57) Malaysia 0

Tennis

WTA Tashkent Open

First-round results on Tuesday (x-denotes seedings):

Misaki Doi (JPN) bt Evgeniya Rodina (Russia) 6-4, 6-2; Maria Teresa Torro (ESP) bt Arina Folts (UZB) 6-0, 6-3; Petra Cetkovska (CZE) bt Nigina Abduraimova (UZB) 6-2, 7-6 (2); Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ x7) bt Maryna Zanevska (UKR) 6-3, 6-4; Vesna Dolonc (SRB) bt Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ x8) 7-6 (6), 7-5; Julia Glushko (ISR) bt Tetyana Arefyeva (UKR) 6-3, 7-5.

WTA Quebec City Challenge

First-round results on Tuesday:

Polona Hercog (SLO) bt Kirsten Flipkens (BEL x1) 6-3, 6-1; Julie Coin (FRA) bt Michelle Larcher de Brito (POR) 7-6 (5), 7-5; Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE) bt Eleni Daniilidou (GRE) 6-3, 7-5; Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (CRO) bt Sharon Fichman (CAN) 6-4, 6-0; Lucie Safarova (CZE x3) bt Anna Tatishvili (GEO) 6-3, 6-2; Sesil Karatantcheva (KAZ) bt Amra Sadikovic (SUI) 6-3, 6-4; Lauren Davis (USA x7) bt Camila Giorgi (ITA) 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-2; Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA x4) bt Stephanie Dubois (CAN) 6-3, 6-4; Kristina Mladenovic (FRA x2) bt Melanie Oudin (USA) 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-2.

China Daily

(China Daily 09/12/2013 page23)