HOUSTON -- Great Britain and Brazil had both been eliminated from contention at the 2026 World Baseball Classic before they took the field on Monday afternoon at Daikin Park. But this game still carried a lot of weight for baseball in both countries. Great Britain's 8-1 win in its Pool

HOUSTON -- Make it a double espresso for Team Italy this time. Italy smacked back-to-back home runs to spark its 7-4 win over Great Britain in Sunday's World Baseball Classic matchup at Daikin Park -- the first by Brewers No. 6 prospect Andrew Fischer in his first WBC at-bat, the

HOUSTON -- If Aaron Judge is the new Captain America, Kyle Schwarber might as well be the Mighty Thor. With lightning flashing in the sky outside Daikin Park on Saturday night, Schwarber hammered a thunderous tiebreaking home run against Great Britain in the World Baseball Classic -- the biggest swing

HOUSTON -- Team Mexico would like to shake off any memories of what happened the last time it played in the World Baseball Classic, if not erase them completely. On Friday, Mexico took one very big necessary first step toward creating a new narrative, topping Great Britain, 8-2, in game

Daikin Park isn't quite Buckingham Palace, although it shared some similarities on Friday. We can (sort of) explain: Pool B of the World Baseball Classic kicked off on Friday afternoon with Great Britain taking on Mexico in Houston, and over the course of the game -- which Mexico won, 8-2

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

PHOENIX -- Leave it to Great Britain to bring a touch of refinement to the World Baseball Classic. While other nations may be content with a team photographer, the Brits are traveling with a team artist. Andy Brown has made a career of painting the game of baseball after falling

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You can get there from here. Drew Spencer first heard those words many years ago while visiting Dartmouth. He was a prospective college student from sunny California taking a trip to the frigid East Coast while considering baseball programs. The head coach, Bob Whalen, saw Spencer looking skeptically at all

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

Watch out, World Baseball Classic. Great Britain is showing up next year with “a bunch of freaking tough dogs” and an energetic new manager. After its impressive performance in the 2023 WBC, in which it beat Colombia for its first-ever victory in the Classic and qualified for 2026, Great Britain’s

It's a new day for baseball in Great Britain. Yes, the country that gifted us rounders made its first appearance in the World Baseball Classic in March 2023. After failing to make it to the Classic in previous qualifiers, new manager Drew Spencer reshaped the roster and brought in plenty

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- There aren’t many people in the world who can say they struck out Nolan Arenado on three pitches -- especially with the world watching. Michael Petersen did. The right-hander, who stands 6 feet, 7 inches tall, raised eyebrows with his triple-digit fastball when his Great Britain team

PHOENIX -- When Mexico first put together its roster for the 2023 World Baseball Classic, Alexis Wilson was on it – as the bullpen catcher. After knocking in both runs of a 2-1 win over Great Britain on Tuesday night at Chase Field, Wilson’s name was still there – but

Harry Ford, the No. 49 prospect in baseball and No. 1 in the Mariners’ farm system, has been called the face of British baseball. That fact is so well known that even a picture of Ford’s face makes a room full of children in England cheer wildly.

PHOENIX – The book of British baseball history received arguably its most important addition Monday afternoon since the game first began to take hold in the U.K. in the late 1800s. Great Britain topped Colombia, 7-5, at Chase Field, claiming its first World Baseball Classic victory.

PHOENIX – Daniel Cooper is an Angels fan. What differentiates Cooper from the innumerable other fans of the Halos is that Cooper has reputedly held three-time MVP Mike Trout hitless across seven career plate appearances (0-for-6 with a walk, including back-field and exhibition at-bats). Cooper most recently got Trout Saturday

PHOENIX – It takes two to make history. Canada and Great Britain, the latter appearing in its first World Baseball Classic, combined to score 26 runs Sunday afternoon at Chase Field, setting a new record for runs scored in a game at the tournament. • Box score: Canada 18, Great

He bashed three home runs and drove in eight runs at the Regensburg World Baseball Classic Qualifiers. He terrified pitchers every time he stepped to the plate, and he almost singlehandedly delivered Team Great Britain to its first World Baseball Classic tournament.

PHOENIX -- When Trayce Thompson jogged out for pregame introductions Saturday at Chase Field, the heavily leaning U.S. crowd appeared to save some extra boos in the bag. Just two pitches into his at-bat against Team USA starter and three-time All-Star Adam Wainwright, Thompson had the last laugh. Capitalizing on

PHOENIX -- On paper, every iteration of Team USA’s lineup looks potent. In practice, the Americans bore that hypothesis out Saturday night, cruising to a 6-2 victory over Great Britain to open Pool C play at the 2023 World Baseball Classic. The top eight hitters in the lineup all reached

SURPRISE, Ariz. -- On Tuesday night at the Great Britain team hotel in the Phoenix area, manager Drew Spencer gathered all 52 members of the delegation -- from players to support staff -- in a conference room and posed a series of questions for each person. Who are you? Where

PHOENIX -- Mariners top prospect Harry Ford had barely figured out which direction to run around the bases when his dad started dreaming of him playing in the World Baseball Classic. Now, here they are. “It means the world to me,” said Alan Ford, the proud dad. “I’ve been thinking

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Cam Opp speaks like an American, acts like an American and would hardly be confused for anything else in the Starbucks line. And yet within the walls of his World Baseball Classic clubhouse, Opp, a Mets farmhand pitching for Great Britain in the tournament, possesses