Baseball

Results from the MLB playoffs League Championship Series games on Tuesday (home team in CAPS):

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R

St. Louis 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 4

LA DODGERS 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2

(St. Louis leads best-of-seven series 3-1)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R

Boston 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1

DETROIT 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

(Boston leads best-of-seven series 2-1)

Ice Hockey

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

Chicago 3 CAROLINA 2 (SO)

Buffalo 4 NY ISLANDERS 3 (SO)

Vancouver 3 PHILADELPHIA 2

PITTSBURGH 3 Edmonton 2

TORONTO 4 Minnesota 1

TAMPA BAY 5 Los Angeles 1

DETROIT 2 Columbus 1

NASHVILLE 4 Florida 3

San Jose 6 ST. LOUIS 2

Montreal 3 WINNIPEG 0

COLORADO 3 Dallas 2

Ottawa 4 PHOENIX 3 (OT)

Soccer

World Cup European zone qualifiers

Results on Tuesday of final round of 2014 World Cup Euro zone qualifying matches:

Group A

At Brussels

Belgium 1 (De Bruyne 64) Wales 1 (Ramsey 88)

At Glasgow

Scotland 2 (Snodgrass 28, Naismith 73) Croatia 0

At Jagodina, Serbia

Serbia 5 (Ristovski 16-og, Basta 19, Kolarov 38-pen, Tadic 54, Scepovic 74) FYR Macedonia 1 (Jahovic 83)

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Belgium 8 2 0 18 4 26 -Q

Croatia 5 2 3 12 9 17

Serbia 4 2 4 18 11 14

Scotland 3 2 5 8 12 11

Wales 3 1 6 9 20 10

Macedonia 2 1 7 7 16 7

Group B

At Copenhagen

Denmark 6 (Morten Rasmussen 8, 74, Agger 11-pen, 39-pen, Bjelland 28, Nielsen 84) Malta 0

At Sofia

Bulgaria 0 Czech Republic 1 (Dockal 52)

At Naples, Italy

Italy 2 (Florenzi 24, Balotelli 76) Armenia 2 (Movsisyan 4, Mkhitaryan 70)

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Italy 6 4 0 19 9 22 - Q

Denmark 4 4 2 17 12 16

Czech Republic 4 3 3 13 9 15

Bulgaria 3 4 3 14 9 13

Armenia 4 1 5 12 13 13

Malta 1 0 9 5 28 3

Group C

At Solna, Sweden

Sweden 3 (Hysen 7, 69, Kacaniclic 42) Germany 5 (Ozil 45, Goetze 53, Schurrle 57, 66, 76)

At Dublin

Republic of Ireland 3 (Keane 17-pen, O'Shea 26, Shomko 77-og) Kazakhstan 1 (Shomko 13)

At Torshavn

Faroe Islands 0 Austria 3 (Ivanschitz 16, Prodl 64, Alaba 67-pen)

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Germany 9 1 0 36 10 28 - Q

Sweden 6 2 2 19 14 20

Austria 5 2 3 20 10 17

Republic of Ireland 4 2 4 16 17 14

Kazakhstan 1 2 7 6 21 5

Faroe Islands 0 1 9 4 29 1

Group D

At Istanbul

Turkey 0 Netherlands 2 (Robben 8, Sneijder 47)

At Bucharest

Romania 2 (Marica 31-pen, 81) Estonia

At Budapest

Hungary 2 (Nikolic 52, 77) Andorra 0

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Netherlands 9 1 0 34 5 28 - Q

Romania 6 1 3 19 12 19

Hungary 5 2 3 21 20 17

Turkey 5 1 4 16 9 16

Estonia 2 1 7 6 20 7

Andorra 0 0 10 0 30 0

Group E

At Nicosia

Cyprus 0 Albania 0

At Berne

Switzerland 1 (Xhaka 74) Slovenia 0

At Oslo

Norway 1 (Braaten 30) Iceland 1 (Sigthorsson 12)

At Riga

Latvia 2 (Sabala 47, Rode 90+2) Slovakia 2 (Jakubko 9, Salata 16)

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Switzerland 7 3 0 17 6 24 - Q

Iceland 5 2 3 17 15 17

Slovenia 5 0 5 14 11 15

Norway 3 3 4 10 13 12

Albania 3 2 5 9 11 11

Cyprus 1 2 7 4 15 5

Group F

At Coimbra, Portugal

Portugal 3 (S. Varela 29, Nani 36, Postiga 78) Luxembourg 0

At Ramat Gan, Israel

Israel 1 (Eden Ben Basat 43) Northern Ireland 1 (Davis 72)

At Baku

Azerbaijan 1 (Dzhavadov 90) Russia 1 (Shirokov 15)

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Russia 7 1 2 20 5 22 - Q

Portugal 6 3 1 20 9 21

Israel 3 5 2 19 14 14

Azerbaijan 1 6 3 7 11 9

Northern Ireland 1 4 5 9 17 7

Luxembourg 1 3 6 7 26 6

Group G

At Kaunas, Lithuania

Lithuania 0 Bosnia-Herzegovina 1 (Ibisevic 68)

At Athens

Greece 2 (Salpingidis 7, Karagounis 81) Liechtenstein 0

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Bosnia-Herzegovina 8 1 1 30 6 25 - Q

Greece 8 1 1 12 4 25

Slovakia 3 4 3 11 10 13

Lithuania 3 2 5 9 11 11

Latvia 2 2 6 10 20 8

Liechtenstein 0 2 8 4 25 2

Group H

At London

England 2 (Rooney 41, Gerrard 88) Poland 0

At Podgorica

Montenegro 2 (Jovetic 55-pen, 90+1) Moldova 5 (Antoniuc 28, 89, Armas 62, Sidorenco 64, Ionita 74)

At Serravalle

San Marino 0 Ukraine 8 (Seleznyov 13-pen, 19, Devic 15, 51, 58-pen, Yarmolenko 55, Bezus 66, Mandzyuk 90)

W D L Gf Ga Pts

England 6 4 0 31 4 22 - Q

Ukraine 6 3 1 28 4 21

Montenegro 4 3 3 18 17 15

Poland 3 4 3 18 12 13

Moldova 3 2 5 12 17 11

San Marino 0 0 10 1 54 0

Group I

At Albacete, Spain

Spain 2 (Negredo 26, Mata 61) Georgia 0

At Paris

France 3 (Ribery 8, Toivio 76-og, Benzema 87) Finland 0

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Spain 6 2 0 14 3 20 - Q

France 5 2 1 15 6 17

Finland 2 3 3 5 9 9

Georgia 1 2 5 3 10 5

Belarus 1 1 6 7 16 4

CONCACAF World Cup qualifiers

Tuesday's results in CONCACAF final-round qualifying for the 2014 Brazil World Cup:

At San Jose

Costa Rica 2 (Ruiz 26, Saborio 64) Mexico 1 (Peralta 29)

At Kingston

Jamaica 2 (Watson 3, Austin 58-pen) Honduras 2 (Costly 1, Figueroa 33)

At Panama City

Panama 2 (Gabriel Torres 18, Tejada 84) United States 3 (Orozco 64, Zusi 90+2, Johannsson 90+3)

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Q-United States 7 1 2 15 8 22

Q-Costa Rica 5 3 2 13 7 18

Q-Honduras 4 3 3 13 12 15

Mexico 2 5 3 7 9 11

Panama 1 5 4 10 14 8

Jamaica 0 5 5 5 13 5

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

South American World Cup qualifiers

Final round qualifying results on Tuesday:

At Montevideo

Uruguay 3 (Rodriguez 5, Suarez 34-pen, Cavani 50) Argentina 2 (Rodriguez 15, 41)

At Asuncion

Paraguay 1 (Rojas 6) Colombia 2 (Yepes 38, 55)

At Santiago

Chile 2 (Sanchez 35, Medel 38) Ecuador 1 (Caicedo 66)

At Lima

Peru 1 (Yotun 19) Bolivia 1 (Bejarano 45)

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Q-Argentina 9 5 2 35 15 32

Q-Colombia 9 3 4 27 13 30

Q-Chile 9 1 6 29 25 28

Q-Ecuador 7 4 5 20 16 25

Uruguay 7 4 5 25 25 25

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Venezuela 5 5 6 14 20 20

Peru 4 3 9 17 26 15

Bolivia 2 6 8 17 30 12

Paraguay 3 3 10 17 31 12

Note: Top four teams qualify automatically; Uruguay go into a playoff with Jordan, the winner of Round 5 in Asian qualifying.

Asian Cup qualifying

Results from qualifiers for the 2015 Asian Cup on Tuesday:

Group A

At Singapore: Singapore 2 (Khairul Amri 61, Gabriel Quak 81) Syria 1 (Reja Rafe 88)

At Amman: Jordan 0 Oman 0

Group B

At Beirut: Lebanon 1 (Mohamed Ghaddar 50) Kuwait 1 (Yousef Nasser al-Salman 26)

At Teheran: Iran 2 (Jalal Hosseini 67, Reza Ghoochannejhad 70) Thailand 1 (Teerasil Dangda 80)

Group C

At Jakarta: Indonesia 1 (Boaz Solossa 68) China 1 (Wu Xi 36)

At Amman: Iraq 0 Saudi Arabia 2 (Osama Hawsawi, 78 Nasser Al Shamrani)

Group D

At Shah Alam: Malaysia 1 (Norshahrul Idlan Talaha 71) Bahrain 1 (Saleh Abdulla 45+1)

At Doha (played on Sunday): Qatar 6 (Khalfan Ibrahim 4, pen, 61, 76, Hassan al-Haydos 24, Sebastian Soria 70, Ali Hassan Afif 90) Yemen 0

Group E

At Hong Kong: Hong Kong 0 UAE 4 (Ali Ahmed Mabkhout 30, 55, 90, Walid Abbas 90+5)

At Tashkent: Uzbekistan 3 (Sardor Rashidov 69, Alexander Geynrikh 74, Igor Sergeev 90) Vietnam 1 (Nguyen Trong Hoang 77)

Tennis

ATP/WTA Kremlin Cup

Results on Tuesday (x denotes seeding):

Men's 1st rd

Evgeny Donskoy (RUS) bt Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) 6-3, 3-6, 6-4; Dudi Sela (ISR) bt Aslan Karatsev (RUS) 6-4, 6-3; Andrey Golubev (KAZ) bt Oleksandr Nedovyesov (UKR) 6-2, 7-5; Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ) bt Alex Bogomolov Jr. (RUS) 6-4, 6-1; Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) bt Filippo Volandri (ITA) 3-6, 7-5, 4-1 retired.

Women's 1st rd

Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) bt Arantxa Parra (ESP) 6-1, 6-2; Vesna Manasieva (SRB) bt Dominika Cibulkova (SVK x9) 3-6, 7-5, 6-3; Vesna Dolonc (SRB) bt Dominika Cibulkova (SVK x9) 3-6, 7-5, 6-3; Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) bt Ksenia Pervak (KAZ) 7-5, 6-2; Carla Suarez-Navarro (ESP x6) bt Vera Dushevina (RUS) 6-4, 6-3; Klara Zakopalova (CZE) bt Danka Kovinic (MNE) 6-4, 6-3; Sofia Arvidsson (SWE) bt Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) 0-6, 6-1, 6-3.

Stockholm ATP tournament

Results on Tuesday:

1st rd

Grigor Dimitrov (BUL x7) bt Marius Copil (ROM) 6-3, 6-4; Joachim Johansson (SWE) bt Alejandro Falla (COL) 6-1, 6-3; Guillermo Garca-Lopez (ESP) bt Nils Langer (GER) 7-6 (5), 6-3; Jack Sock (USA) bt Bernard Tomic (AUS) 6-4, 6-2; Ernests Gulbis (LAT x5) bt Jeremy Chardy (FRA) 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (3); Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) bt Milos Sekulic (SWE) 6-3, 6-0.

ATP Austrian Open

Results on Tuesday:

1st rd

Miloslav Mecr Jr. (SVK) bt Pablo Andujar (ESP) 6-4, 6-4; Dominic Thiem (AUT) bt Daniel Gimeno (ESP) 6-4, 5-7, 6-4; Robin Haase (NED) bt Ilija Bozoljac (SRB) 5-7, 6-2, 6-2; Vasek Pospisil (CAN x7) bt Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) 7-6 (6), 6-4; Mirza Basic (BIH) bt Michael Russell (USA) 6-3, 6-4; Ruben Bemelmans (BEL) bt Jan Hajek (CZE) 6-2, 6-0; Daniel Brands (GER) bt Andreas Haider-Maurer (AUT) 6-4, 7-6 (5); Lukas Lacko (SVK) bt Gerald Melzer (AUT) 7-6 (5), 6-1.

WTA Luxembourg tournament

Results on Tuesday:

1st rd

Sabine Lisicki (GER x3) bt Donna Vekic (CRO) 2-6, 6-3, 6-0; Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x1) bt Mandy Minella (LUX) 6-3, 7-6 (2); Yvonne Meusburger (AUT) bt Irina Begu (ROM) 6-4, 6-2; Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) bt Kristina Kucova (SVK) 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-3; Katarzyna Piter (POL) bt Kirsten Flipkens (BEL x4) 6-4, 6-2; Stefanie Vogele (SUI) bt Mona Barthel (GER x6) 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3); Karolna Pliskova (CZE) bt Lourdes Dominguez (ESP) 5-7, 7-5, 6-1; Sloane Stephens (USA x2) bt Timea Bacsinszky (SUI) 6-3, 6-3.

(China Daily 10/17/2013 page23)