MIAMI -- Fernando Tatis Jr. spent the first two games of the World Baseball Classic setting the table for his teammates. Monday, he decided to eat. Tatis hit the first grand slam by a Dominican Republic player in Classic history, setting a team record with six RBIs to lead the

The Dominican Republic team has been a slugging juggernaut so far this World Baseball Classic, with a tournament-high nine home runs. Juan Soto has one of those, a run rule game-ender, and during Monday's breezy 10-1 victory over Israel he made a bid for two more. Both of them came

Fernando Tatis Jr. isn't playing for Slam Diego right now, but he brought a little of it with him to Team Dominican Republic's 10-1 win over Israel on Monday afternoon. The Padres superstar launched a no-doubt grand slam in the second inning, the first in Dominican Republic's World Baseball Classic

MIAMI -- When Luis Severino talked to his wife following the Dominican Republic’s one-sided win over the Netherlands, his performance wasn’t the topic of conversation. She wanted to talk about Austin Wells’ home run. “She was more excited than me that he hit a homer,” Severino said.

MIAMI -- A small band marched through the concourse at loanDepot park shortly before Sunday’s game, working the Dominican Republic fans into a lather before the first pitch was even thrown. The party didn’t stop for more than two hours, as the D.R. lineup kept the drummers busy all afternoon,

The first full day with all four World Baseball Classic pools in action provided plenty of excitement and fodder. Here’s a look at nine stats and facts from some wild games. • Let’s start where we so often do when discussing the extraordinary: with Shohei Ohtani. He hit a grand

MIAMI – As they prepared for their first game in this year’s World Baseball Classic, Juan Soto promised that the Dominican Republic team was going to have fun. “And we’re going to be loud,” Fernando Tatis Jr. added. Tatis wasn’t necessarily talking about the sound of Junior Caminero’s bat, but

MIAMI -- Four batters into Cristopher Sánchez’s World Baseball Classic debut, it looked like he might not make it out of the first inning. By the time he walked off the mound, the left-hander had made Classic history. Sánchez became the first pitcher in the 20-year history of the tournament

MIAMI – Erik González has replaced Jeremy Peña on the Dominican Republic’s roster for the World Baseball Classic, the team announced on Friday, adding a versatile infielder to manager Albert Pujols’ star-studded roster. González will join the Dominican team at loanDepot park prior to Friday night’s WBC opener against Nicaragua

MIAMI -- The Dominican Republic has had some loaded lineups throughout the 20-year history of the World Baseball Classic.

JUPITER, Fla. – Remember this viral Lady Gaga meme? “No sleep. Bus. Club. ‘nother club. ‘nother club. Plane. Next place. No sleep.”

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- The World Baseball Classic hasn’t even officially started yet, and Junior Caminero is already making a powerful impression on the international stage. Caminero went 4-for-4 in the Dominican Republic team’s 12-4 win over the Tigers on Tuesday night at Estadio Quisqueya Juan Marichal in Santo Domingo,

Get ready to dive into World Baseball Classic pool play. The 2026 tournament, which gets underway this week, features four pools: A, B, C and D. Each of those pools consists of five teams battling it out in a round-robin format. The top two teams from each pool then advance

SANTO DOMINGO – The atmosphere at Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium on Tuesday night was not typical of Dominican Winter League games, even though many names in the home team's lineup had played on this field in the past. The sparkle of the country's beloved team dazzled the more than 10,000

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- With World Baseball Classic veterans Carlos Correa and Jose Altuve staying with the Astros throughout the spring, a pair of first-time WBC participants played their final Grapefruit League game on Saturday before heading off to their respective camps. All-Star shortstop Jeremy Peña is headed to

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Cristopher Sánchez and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. will soon be teammates for the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic, so perhaps that’s why they shared a laugh on Saturday. Sánchez threw Guerrero three consecutive sinkers to open their first-inning at-bat in the Phillies’ 7-5 loss to the

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- The budding friendship between Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Kazuma Okamoto has been put on hold. The moment Guerrero rolls out of Dunedin Saturday night and heads to Miami, where he’ll join his Dominican teammates to prepare for the World Baseball Classic, Okamoto isn’t his Blue Jays teammate,

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- Junior Caminero stood in front of his locker at Charlotte Sports Park on Friday morning, a box of fresh equipment featuring his home country’s colors at his feet, and thought about two of his proudest accomplishments. What’s more exciting, he was asked: Getting to play for

Below is a list of the players in every Major League organization who have been included on the rosters for the 2026 World Baseball Classic. Pitchers denoted with ^ are part of the Designated Pitcher Pool (DPP), a reserve of up to six pitchers per federation that can be called

The World Baseball Classic begins on Wednesday, March 4, at 10 p.m. ET in a game between Australia and Chinese Taipei. It will kick off a fortnight of absolute madness, with the best baseball players on the planet highly motivated by patriotism, pride and plain old competitiveness squaring off in

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- High-leverage reliever Edwin Uceta will not pitch for the Dominican Republic in the upcoming World Baseball Classic due to a sore throwing shoulder, but the Rays still expect the right-hander to be ready for Opening Day. Rays manager Kevin Cash said Sunday that Uceta has been

The big names just keep rolling onto the Dominican Republic’s roster for the 2026 World Baseball Classic.

After leading Leones del Escogido to the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM) championship in the 2024-25 winter season -- his first managerial experience -- followed by the 2025 Caribbean Series crown in Mexicali last month, Albert Pujols will be named skipper of the Dominican squad for the 2026 World

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Eloy Jiménez could have received a day or two to relax and recover following his competition for the Dominican Republic in the 2023 World Baseball Classic. But there was Jiménez hitting cleanup and at designated hitter for the White Sox in Friday afternoon’s 4-4 tie with the