MIAMI – After watching his team give up nine runs over the final three innings of a lopsided loss against the Dominican Republic on Friday night, Nicaragua manager Dusty Baker was excited to get back to loanDepot park for the next game.

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HOUSTON -- Italy kicks off its 2026 World Baseball Classic run in a pool with two giants of the sport -- the United States and Mexico. But this Team Italy roster might be the best one yet, and the country has high hopes coming off a quarterfinal appearance in 2023.

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.

Nicaragua's Emanuel Trujillo didn't have to wait long for his chance at redemption. After striking out with the bases loaded to end the top of the fifth inning of a taut Pool D matchup against The Netherlands on Saturday, the 24-year-old Nicaragua native make a stupendous -- dare we say

TOKYO -- There’s not many places for a pitcher to hide when facing Samurai Japan. The lineup features one Japanese slugger after another, each with the ability to put the ball over the fence. Facing its rival Korea on Saturday night, Japan showed off that power with three home runs

HOUSTON – An All-Star lineup of Major League sluggers and a deep, sturdy pitching rotation gave Team USA sky-high expectations entering the World Baseball Classic. They delivered in their first game, though the process wasn’t as easy as some might have expected. Team USA beat Team Brazil, 15-5, in a

HOUSTON -- A quick glance at Team Brazil’s roster provides pretty standard information about the players -- bats/throws, height/weight, date of birth, hometown and school attended, where applicable. With no disrespect to Joseph Contreras, his line reads a little bit like … a misprint.

Colombia righty Julio Teheran was scratched from his scheduled World Baseball Classic start against Canada on Saturday with a right shoulder impingement. According to Team Colombia, the issue flared up while Teheran was warming up. As a precautionary measure, Colombia pivoted to Austin Bergner. Teheran, a two-time NL All-Star with

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

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

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Jameson Taillon, playing for Team Canada, is getting the start on Sunday against Panama. He's preparing with bullpens, he's talking to his coaches, he's watching video of Panamanian hitters. That's just how proven big league starters get to work. He's been doing it for years.

There’s another outfielder named Ramirez wearing No. 24 and crushing huge home runs, and he has arrived on baseball’s biggest stage. Enter Angels prospect Lucas Ramirez, the son of 12-time All-Star outfielder Manny Ramirez, who made his mark from the start of Team Brazil’s World Baseball Classic opener against Team

Hiram Bithorn Stadium was alive on Friday night as the home fans cheered on Team Puerto Rico in its World Baseball Classic opener versus Colombia. The loudest cheers, however, might have come from someone watching the game on his couch. Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor, who is unable to play for

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Veteran catcher Christian Vázquez, who was a part of the Astros' World Series championship team in 2022, is returning to the club on a Minor League deal with an invitation to Spring Training. Vázquez will join the Astros after he’s done playing for Puerto Rico

TOKYO -- Chinese Taipei enters a game that is an absolute must-win if it wants any chance of advancing. After dropping its first two games against Australia and Japan, failing to push a run across the board, the offense teed off for 14 runs against Czechia. While the victory has

Shohei Ohtani grabs a lot of headlines and rightfully so, but Japan’s roster for the World Baseball Classic is much more than a one-man show. The reigning WBC champions are stacked with stars, and arguably no one shone brighter during Saturday’s game versus Korea than Cubs outfielder Seiya Suzuki, who

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

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 --

TOKYO -- Hokkaido, the northernmost island in Japan, is famed for its fishing, with trout, salmon and crab among the delicacies that can be found in its waters and upon its shoreline. What Hokkaido isn’t known for is its baseball. Samurai Japan right-hander Hiromi Itoh is working on changing that.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- By now, it’s apparent -- both inside and outside baseball circles -- that Edwin Díaz entering games to his Timmy Trumpet theme song is electric.

Twins outfielder Byron Buxton exited Team USA's World Baseball Classic opener after being hit by a pitch in the fifth inning, but avoided serious injury. "He got hit on the forearm. X-rays are fine. Just caught him in the meat of his forearm," USA manager Mark DeRosa said after Friday's

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

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – You could hear the crowd in the parking lot of Hiram Bithorn Stadium. You could see the traffic backed up on the highway from the second deck.