HOUSTON -- Kyle Schwarber crushed a majestic tiebreaking home run against Great Britain on Saturday, far back into the second deck in right field at Daikin Park -- the biggest swing of the World Baseball Classic so far for the United States. Schwarber's home run carried the U.S. past Great

TOKYO -- It's not very surprising that Japan, the three-time World Baseball Classic champions, is undefeated after two ballgames. Many expected this team, loaded with Major League talent and some of the best young players in Nippon Professional Baseball, to sweep through its home group stage at Tokyo Dome --

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Puerto Rican fans swayed and sang along to Marc Anthony’s “Preciosa” in the stands of Hiram Bithorn Stadium – a beautiful rendition of a song expressing a person’s undying love for the island. A sort of second national anthem, as many Puerto Ricans will tell

HOUSTON -- Trayce Thompson might've just made the catch of the World Baseball Classic against Team USA. The Great Britain outfielder went up and over the wall in right field at Daikin Park for a sensational home run robbery of Will Smith on Saturday night. As Thompson tumbled to the

MIAMI – For eight innings Saturday, Team Netherlands looked helpless at the plate, stranding 10 men on base while going hitless in six tries with runners in scoring position. One swing by Ozzie Albies erased all of that frustration, turning what would have been a crushing defeat into a Classic

MIAMI -- After watching Luis Arraez drive in two runs for Venezuela in its opening win, Willson Contreras wanted the world to know what he thought of his teammate. “Arraez is a great player,” Contreras said of Arraez, who owns a .317 career average and only 36 home runs. “He

TOKYO -- It will go down as one of the most memorable World Baseball Classic games in Tokyo Dome’s storied history. Chinese Taipei – which had never defeated Korea in the tournament before – needed a victory to keep its slim hopes of advancing alive. With a win, Korea would

HOUSTON -- Tarik Skubal is leaving the door open to pitching another game for Team USA at the World Baseball Classic. That wasn't the plan. The plan was supposed to be set in stone: Skubal would make one start against Great Britain in pool play, and then return to the

Another full day of World Baseball Classic action on Saturday means baseball amazed us yet again. It was a day filled with walk-offs and wildness. Here’s a look at eights stats and facts from another wonderful day of baseball.

MIAMI -- Team Netherlands was facing a harsh reality Saturday, only one out away from falling to 0-2 in pool play at loanDepot park. Ozzie Albies’ walk-off home run turned its outlook around, giving manager Andruw Jones and his team new life as they prepare to face the Dominican Republic

HOUSTON -- Entering the World Baseball Classic, Team Italy manager Francisco Cervelli said his goal was to "put Italy on the map" as a baseball country. So for his team's first game against Brazil on Saturday at Daikin Park, he handed the ball to Sam Aldegheri -- one of the

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Canada was an early pick to make it out of Pool A of the World Baseball Classic in Puerto Rico and, well, in their first game on Saturday, they proved why. Manager Ernie Whitt’s squad beat Colombia, 8-2, moving his country to 1-0 in the

The 2024 Draft class is shaping up to be one of the best in recent memory. Following a 2023 class that featured some of the best top-end prospect talent of any Draft -- with names like Paul Skenes, Dylan Crews, Wyatt Langford and Max Clark going in the top five

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Colombia vs. Cuba. Two countries nearly 1,000 miles apart will now be on the same field together for the first time in World Baseball Classic history.

MIAMI -- Friday night, Dusty Baker said he was glad his team didn’t have much time to stew over its loss to the Dominican Republic. Saturday’s walk-off loss to the Netherlands was an even bigger gut punch, one Baker’s team will have to sit with until Sunday night’s matchup against

Canada is looking to stay undefeated in World Baseball Classic pool play on Sunday (7 p.m. ET, FS2) after taking down Colombia on Saturday afternoon. Panama, meanwhile, is looking for its first win of the tournament after losing to Cuba on Friday and dropping a 10-inning heartbreaker to Puerto Rico

HOUSTON -- Mexico is off to its best start ever at a World Baseball Classic. Now the team just has to keep things rolling against Brazil on Sunday night at Daikin Park to set up a must-see showdown with Team USA. Yes, Mexico has only played one game so far

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Typically, Spring Training buzz is reserved for the top prospects, the new guys, the players half Max Scherzer’s age. There’s never been anything typical about Scherzer, though, and the Blue Jays don’t need typical. This team doesn’t need average innings in a rotation spilling over with big

LAKELAND, Fla. -- The ball jumped off Konnor Griffin’s bat looking like another hard-hit line drive for baseball’s top prospect. “I thought I had me a little single,” the Pirates phenom said afterward. On the other side of the drive, Kevin McGonigle -- baseball’s No. 2 prospect -- had a

Everyone’s favorite dugout espresso machine is back in business. And business is booming. Italy created a stir at the 2023 World Baseball Classic when it housed a Nespresso machine in the dugout. With a little caffeine in their system, the Italians played inspired baseball, advancing out of group play for

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- According to MLB Pipeline, Owen Caissie is the No. 42 prospect in all of baseball. That means the red-headed Marlins outfielder is good. Really good.

Team Puerto Rico won a thrilling World Baseball Classic matchup with Panama in San Juan on Saturday night thanks to a 10th-inning walk-off homer off the bat of Darell Hernaiz. One player who wasn’t there to witness his homeland's dramatic victory live was nevertheless exuberant in the wake of the

TOKYO -- Seiya Suzuki missed Japan's 2023 World Baseball Classic title run with an oblique injury, with the team marking his absence by hanging his No. 51 jersey above the bench in the dugout. In Japan's 8-6 win against Korea on Saturday at Tokyo Dome, the Cubs outfielder showed what