Baseball

Major League Baseball World Series match between Boston and St. Louis on Wednesday (home team in CAPS):

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R

BOSTON 3 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 x 8

St. Louis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1

(Boston leads best-of-seven series 1-0)

Golf

Shanghai Masters

Scores after the first round of the European Tour BMW Masters at the par-72 course on Thursday in Shanghai:

65 Luke Guthrie (USA)

68 John Daly (USA)

69 Peter Uihlein (USA)

70 Simon Dyson (GBR), Craig Lee (GBR), Paul Casey (GBR), Pablo Larrazabal (ESP), Gregory Bourdy (FRA), Thongchai Jaidee (THA), Graeme McDowell (GBR)

71 Huang Wenyi (CHI), Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (ESP), Rory McIlroy (GBR)

72 Maximilian Kieffer (GER), David Horsey (GBR), Padraig Harrington (IRE), Scott Jamieson (GBR), Francesco Molinari (ITA), Tommy Fleetwood (GBR), Lee Westwood (GBR), Henrik Stenson (SWE).

73 Ricardo Gonzalez (ARG), Rafael Cabrera-Bello (ESP), Wu Ashun (CHI), Marcus Fraser (AUS),

Marc Warren (GBR), Julien Quesne (FRA), Brett Rumford (AUS), Thomas Bjorn (DEN).

Ice Hockey

Results from NHL games played on Wednesday (home team in CAPS):

Ottawa 6 DETROIT 1

Boston 5 BUFFALO 2

Soccer

UEFA Champions League

Results and standings after games on Wednesday:

Group A

Bayer Leverkusen 4 Shakhtar Donetsk 0

Manchester United 1 Real Sociedad 0

P W D L F A Pts

Manchester United 3 2 1 0 6 3 7

Bayer Leverkusen 3 2 0 1 8 5 6

Shakhtar Donetsk 3 1 1 1 3 5 4

Real Sociedad 3 0 0 3 1 5 0

Group B

Real Madrid 2 Juventus 1

Galatasaray 3 FC Copenhagen 1

P W D L F A Pts

Real Madrid 3 3 0 0 12 2 9

Galatasaray 3 1 1 1 6 9 4

Juventus 3 0 2 1 4 5 2

FC Copenhagen 3 0 1 2 2 8 1

Group C

Anderlecht 0 Paris St. Germain 5

Benfica 1 Olympiakos Piraeus 1

P W D L F A Pts

Paris St. Germain 3 3 0 0 12 1 9

Olympiakos Piraeus 3 1 1 1 5 5 4

Benfica 3 1 1 1 3 4 4

Anderlecht 3 0 0 3 0 10 0

Group D

CSKA Moscow 1 Manchester City 2

Bayern Munich 5 Viktoria Plzen 0

P W D L F A Pts

Bayern Munich 3 3 0 0 11 1 9

Manchester City 3 2 0 1 6 4 6

CSKA Moscow 3 1 0 2 4 7 3

Viktoria Plzen 3 0 0 3 2 11 0

Played on Tuesday:

Group E

Steaua Bucharest 1 Basel 1

Schalke 04 0 Chelsea 3

P W D L F A Pts

Chelsea 3 2 0 1 8 2 6

Schalke 04 3 2 0 1 4 3 6

Basel 3 1 1 1 3 3 4

Steaua B'rest 3 0 1 2 1 8 1

Group F

Arsenal 1 Borussia Dortmund 2

Olympique Marseille 1 Napoli 2

P W D L F A Pts

Arsenal 3 2 0 1 5 3 6

Bor. Dortmund 3 2 0 1 6 3 6

Napoli 3 2 0 1 4 4 6

Oly. Marseille 3 0 0 3 2 7 0

Group G

Porto 0 Zenit St. Petersburg 1

Austria Vienna 0 Atletico Madrid 3

P W D L F A Pts

Atletico Madrid 3 3 0 0 8 2 9

St. Petersburg 3 1 1 1 2 3 4

Porto 3 1 0 2 2 3 3

Austria Vienna 3 0 1 2 0 4 1

Group H

Celtic 2 Ajax Amsterdam 1

AC Milan 1 Barcelona 1

P W D L F A Pts

Barcelona 3 2 1 0 6 1 7

AC Milan 3 1 2 0 4 2 5

Celtic 3 1 0 2 2 4 3

Ajax 3 0 1 2 2 7 1

Tennis

The WTA Championships on Wednesday (x denotes seeding):

Red Group

Serena Williams (USA x1) bt Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x3) 6-2, 6-4.

White Group

Li Na (CHN x4) bt Sara Errani (ITA x6) 6-3, 7-6 (5). Jelena Jankovic (SRB x7) bt Victoria Azarenka (BLR x2) 6-4, 6-3.

ATP Swiss Indoors

Results on the third day in Basel on Wednesday (x denotes seeded player):

1st rd

Grigor Dimitrov (BUL x8) bt Radek Stepanek (CZE) 6-3, 6-3. Michael Llodra (FRA) bt Richard Gasquet (FRA x5) 6-4, 6-2. Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) bt Denis Kudla (USA) 6-4, 7-5. Juan Martin del Potro (ARG x1) bt Henri Laaksonen (SUI) 6-4, 6-4, Vasek Pospisil (CAN) bt Robin Haase (NED) 6-4, 6-4.

2nd rd

Ivan Dodig (CRO) bt Kei Nishikori (JPN x6) 6-1, 6-2. Roger Federer (SUI x3) bt Denis Istomin (UZB) 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.

ATP Valencia Open

Results on Wednesday (x denotes seeding):

1st rd

Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) bt Tommy Haas (GER x2) 3-6, 6-3, 6-3. David Ferrer (ESP x1) bt Gael Monfils (FRA) 6-3, 6-2. Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) bt Benoit Paire (FRA) 6-3, 6-3. John Isner (USA x4) bt Ernests Gulbis (LAT) 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2). Jeremy Chardy (FRA) bt Florian Mayer (GER) 4-6, 7-5, 6-3.

2nd rd

Fabio Fognini (ITA x7) bt Marcel Granollers (ESP) 6-3, 6-2. Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) bt Roberto Bautista (ESP) 6-2, 7-6 (3).

China Daily

(China Daily 10/25/2013 page23)