Baseball

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

NY Mets 5 ATLANTA 2

HOUSTON 6 Minnesota 5

CHICAGO CUBS 9 Miami 7

OAKLAND 11 Texas 4

ARIZONA 4 Toronto 3 (10 innings)

San Francisco 13 SAN DIEGO 5

CLEVELAND 6 Baltimore 4

NY YANKEES 6 Chicago White Sox 5

Washington 3 PHILADELPHIA 2

BOSTON 20 Detroit 4

Seattle 6 KANSAS CITY 4

MILWAUKEE 9 Pittsburgh 3

St. Louis 5 CINCINNATI 4 (16 innings)

COLORADO 7 LA Dodgers 5

Tampa Bay 3 LA ANGELS 1

AMERICAN LEAGUE

EASTERN DIVISION

W L PCT GB

1. Boston 84 57 .596 -

2. Tampa Bay 77 61 .558 5 1/2

3. NY Yankees 75 64 .540 8

4. Baltimore 73 65 .529 9 1/2

5. Toronto 64 76 .457 19 1/2

CENTRAL DIVISION

1. Detroit 81 59 .579 -

2. Cleveland 74 65 .532 6 1/2

3. Kansas City 72 67 .518 8 1/2

4. Minnesota 61 77 .442 19

5. Chi White Sox 56 82 .406 24

WESTERN DIVISION

1. Oakland 80 59 .576 -

2. Texas 80 59 .576 -

3. LA Angels 64 74 .464 15 1/2

4. Seattle 63 76 .453 17

5. Houston 46 93 .331 34

NATIONAL LEAGUE

EASTERN DIVISION

1. Atlanta 85 54 .612 -

2. Washington 71 68 .511 14

3. NY Mets 63 75 .457 21 1/2

4. Philadelphia 63 77 .450 22 1/2

5. Miami 52 86 .377 32 1/2

CENTRAL DIVISION

1. Pittsburgh 81 58 .583 -

2. St. Louis 80 59 .576 1

3. Cincinnati 78 62 .557 3 1/2

4. Milwaukee 60 79 .432 21

5. Chicago Cubs 59 80 .424 22

WESTERN DIVISION

1. LA Dodgers 83 56 .597 -

2. Arizona 70 68 .507 12 1/2

3. Colorado 66 75 .468 18

4. San Diego 62 77 .446 21

5. San Francisco 62 77 .446 21

Tennis

US Open

Results on Wednesday (x-denotes seedings):

Men's singles quarterfinals

Richard Gasquet (FRA x8) bt David Ferrer (ESP x4) 6-3, 6-1, 4-6, 2-6, 6-3; Rafael Nadal (ESP x2) bt Tommy Robredo (ESP x19) 6-0, 6-2, 6-2.

Women's singles quarterfinals

Flavia Pennetta (ITA) bt Roberta Vinci (ITA x10) 6-4, 6-1; Victoria Azarenka (BLR x2) bt Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) 6-2, 6-3.

Men's doubles quarterfinals

Ivan Dodig/Marcelo Melo (CRO/BRA x10) bt Treat Huey/Dominic Inglot (PHI/GBR x16) 7-5, 6-3.

Women's doubles quarterfinals

Sania Mirza/Zheng Jie (IND/CHN x10) bt Hsieh Su-Wei/Peng Shuai (TPE/CHN x4) 6-4, 7-6 (5); Ashleigh Barty/Casey Dellacqua (AUS/AUS x8) bt Ekaterina Makarova/Elena Vesnina (RUS/RUS x2) 6-2, 6-3; Andrea Hlavackova/Lucie Hradecka (CZE/CZE x5) bt Nadia Petrova/Katarina Srebotnik (RUS/SLO x3) 4-6, 6-4, 7-5.

Mixed doubles semifinals

Abigail Spears/Santiago Gonzalez (USA/MEX) bt Anabel Medina Garrigues/Bruno Soares (ESP/BRA x5) 6-3, 6-1; Andrea Hlavackova/Max Mirnyi (CZE/BLR x7) bt Kristina Mladenovic/Daniel Nestor (FRA/CAN) 7-5, 6-7 (4), 12-10.

China Daily

(China Daily 09/06/2013 page23)