Baseball

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

Houston 9 NY YANKEES 1

DETROIT 4 Minnesota 3

ATLANTA 3 Washington 2

MIAMI 4 NY Mets 3 (15 innings)

CHICAGO CUBS 5 San Diego 3

Cleveland 9 KANSAS CITY 0

MILWAUKEE 10 Pittsburgh 4

Cincinnati 2 ST. LOUIS 1

San Francisco 6 ARIZONA 4

SEATTLE 6 Baltimore 2

Colorado 12 LA DODGERS 2

Oakland 10, LA Angels 8 (19 innings)

Basketball

Results on Monday from the first round of the NBA playoffs (all series best-of-seven):

Eastern Conference

at Brooklyn

Brooklyn 110 Chicago 91

(Chicago leads series 3-2)

at Atlanta

Atlanta 102 Indiana 91

(Series level 2-2)

Western Conference

at Houston

Houston 105 Oklahoma City 103

(Oklahoma City leads series 3-1)

Soccer

English Premier League

Monday's results:

Aston Villa 6 (Vlaar 31, Weimann 38, Benteke 55, 59, 72, Agbonlahor 88) Sunderland 1 (Rose 32)

Portuguese league

Monday's results:

Martimo Funchal 1 (Branco 42) Benfica 2 (Lima 5-pen, Branco 72-og)

Spanish La Liga

Monday's results:

Real Betis 1 (Molina 49) Deportivo La Coruna 1 (Riki 7)

Tennis

ATP/WTA Portugal Open

Monday's results (x denotes seeding):

Women 1st rd

Elena Vesnina (RUS x7) bt Maria Joao Koehler (POR) 6-4, 6-1 ; Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) bt Varvara Lepchenko (USA x6) 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-2; Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) bt Anna Tatishvili (GEO) 6-1, 7-5; Ayumi Morita (JPN) bt Laura Robson (GBR) 6-2, 7-5; Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP x4) bt Marina Erakovic (NZL) 6-3, 6-0; Sorona Cirstea (ROM x5) bt Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) 6-2, 2-6. 6-1

Men 1st rd

David Goffin (BEL) bt Pedro Sousa (POR) 7-6 (1), 4-6, 6-4; Denis Istomin (UZB) bt Evgeny Donskoy (RUS) 2-6, 7-6 (7), 6-4; Benoit Paire (FRA x6) bt Igor Sijsling (NED) 7-6 (5), 6-3 Eduardo Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt Gilles Muller (LUX) 6-1, retired

Munich ATP

Monday's results (x denotes seeding):

1st rd

Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) bt Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) 6-3, 6-4; Ivan Dodig (CRO) bt Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) 6-4, 6-4; Daniel Brands (GER) bt Tobias Kamke (GER) 5-7, 6-4, 6-3; Marinko Matosevic (AUS) bt Kevin Krawitz (GER) 6-2, 6-4.

(China Daily 05/01/2013 page12)