Baseball

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

ATLANTA 5 Pittsburgh 0

NY YANKEES 6 Cleveland 4

PHILADELPHIA 6 Miami 1

Oakland 6 MILWAUKEE 1

Toronto 4 SAN FRANCISCO 0

Chi White Sox 7 SEATTLE 5 (16 innings)

Chicago Cubs 8 LA ANGELS 6 (10 innings)

NY Mets 10 WASHINGTON 1

Tampa Bay 3 DETROIT 0

Texas 3 BOSTON 2

Colorado 12 CINCINNATI 4

HOUSTON 11 Baltimore 7

KANSAS CITY 4 Minnesota 1

Arizona 10 ST. LOUIS 3

San Diego 6 LA DODGERS 2

Cricket

England vs New Zealand ODI

Scoreboard in the third one-day international between England and New Zealand at Trent Bridge in Nottingham on Wednesday.

England innings

I.Bell v McCullum b McClenaghan 82

E.Morgan run out 49

J.Buttler not out 47

Extras (lb-2 w-7 nb-2) 11

Total (for six wickets, 50 overs) 287

Did not bat: S.Broad, J.Tredwell, S.Finn.

Fall of wickets: 1-3 2-69 3-149 4-153 5-210 6-272.

Bowling: McClenaghan 10-1-54-3 (2nb 3w), Mills 9-1-55-0 (1w), Southee 9-0-65-0 (2w), Franklin 4-0-24-0, N.McCullum 8-0-35-0, Williamson 9-0-42-1, Munro 1-0-10-0.

New Zealand innings

M.Guptill b Tredwell 38

R.Taylor c Bresnan b Tredwell 71

K.Mills not out 28

M.McClenaghan c Root b Finn 4

Extras (b-2 lb-5 w-6 nb-2) 28

Total (all out, 46.3 overs) 253

Fall of wickets: 1-39 2-70 3-96 4-97 5-111 6-122 7-175 8-196 9-235 10-253.

Bowling Finn 9.3-0-57-2 (1nb 3w), Broad 9-0-56-2, Bresnan 8-0-27-2 (2w), Tredwell 9-0-51-3, Root 5-0-34-1, Bopara 6-0-21-0,

New Zealand won the toss and chose to field

England won by 34 runs

New Zealand won the series 2-1

Ice Hockey

NHL playoffs

Result from the NHL playoffs finals game on Wednesday (home team in CAPS):

1 2 3 OT T

Pittsburgh 0 1 0 0 1

BOSTON 1 0 0 1 2

(Boston leads best-of-seven series 3-0)

Tennis

French Open

Results on Wednesday (x-denotes seedings):

Men's quarterfinals

Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Tommy Haas (GER x12) 6-3, 7-6 (7/5), 7-5; Rafael Nadal (ESP x3) bt Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x9) 6-2, 6-3, 6-1.

Women's quarterfinals

Victoria Azarenka (BLR x3) bt Maria Kirilenko (RUS x12) 7-6 (7/3), 6-2; Maria Sharapova (RUS x2) bt Jelena Jankovic (SRBx18) 0-6, 6-4, 6-3.

Men's doubles' quarterfinals

Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan (USA/USA x1) bt David Marrero/Fernando Verdasco (ESP/ESP x8) 6-3, 6-4; Alexander Peya/Bruno Soares (AUT/BRA x7) bt Mariusz Fyrstenberg/Marcin Matkowski (POL/POL x16) 1-6, 6-4, 3-1 - retired.

Women's doubles' quarterfinals

Sara Errani/Roberta Vinci (ITA/ITA x1) bt Varvara Lepchenko/Zheng Saisai(USA/CHN) 7-5, 6-1; Nadia Petrova/Katarina Srebotnik (RUS/SLO x3) bt Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova/Lucie Safarova (RUS/CZE x11) 6-3, 6-3; Ekaterina Makarova/Elena Vesnina (RUS/RUS x4) bt Kristina Mladenovic/Galina Voskoboeva (FRA/KAZ x10) 6-4, 6-1; Andrea Hlavckov/Lucie Hradeck (CZE/CZE x2) bt Cara Black/Marina Erakovic (ZIM/NZL) 2-6, 7-6 (7/3), 6-4.

Mixed doubles' semifinals

Kristina Mladenovic/Daniel Nestor (FRA/USA x5) bt Cara Black/Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (ZIM/PAK) 7-5, 6-4; Lucie Hradeck/Frantisek Cermak (CZE/CZE) bt Leisel Huber/Marcelo Melo (USA/BRA x8) 3-6, 6-2, 1-0.

China Daily

(China Daily 06/07/2013 page23)