After a thrilling round of pool play, the World Baseball Classic is about to level up. Eight teams -- two from each pool -- are still alive in their pursuit of a WBC title as the event takes on a tournament-style, single-elimination format. The quarterfinals begin with a two-game slate

After a nerve-racking 24 hours, Team USA can exhale. The U.S. officially punched its ticket to the quarterfinals of the 2026 World Baseball Classic with Italy’s 9-1 win over Mexico on Wednesday at Daikin Park in Houston. With a 3-1 record, Team USA finished second in Pool B and will

The first round of the 2026 World Baseball Classic provided a bevy of indelible moments and wall-to-wall thrills. We should expect more of the same once the quarterfinals begin on Friday.

Managing in the World Baseball Classic is tricky. Teams are full of stars, sometimes adjusting to new positions. There are pitch-count rules. There are complex tiebreakers. And most importantly, there’s the tension of leading a national team in a high-pressure situation where the entire country might second-guess a decision.

We got plenty of drama over the past two days of the World Baseball Classic -- and so much more than Team USA had bargained for, right? -- that didn’t involve Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge, the two headliners of the whole thing.

The Yankees' Opening Day game this year will be unlike any in the franchise's 124-year history. The 27-time World Series champions will start a new Major League Baseball season on March 25 with a matchup against the Giants at Oracle Park as part of MLB Opening Night And with a

Perhaps the most beautiful thing about baseball, the thing that truly sets it apart from every other major team sport, is that every ballpark is different. Interesting. Unique. Other than some standard minimums laid out in the rulebook, it’s fair game. You can have a 37-foot wall in left field

HOUSTON – After their enormous upset of the U.S. on Tuesday night, the members of Team Italy were just like the rest of us, learning about the mathematical tiebreakers that might decide their fate if they lost to Mexico the next night. The calculations came in and confirmed that Italy

HOUSTON – A shortstop flop benefited Team Italy early in a pivotal matchup with Mexico in Pool B play on Wednesday night. The Italians were ahead, 1-0, with one out in the bottom of the third when Mexico’s Joey Ortiz singled. Jarren Duran hit a fly ball to shallow left-center

MIAMI -- It's a miracle the roof stayed on loanDepot park. The juggernaut Dominican Republic lineup put on an epic fireworks display to beat Venezuela and take first place in Pool D at the World Baseball Classic. The D.R. mashed four home runs -- one each by Juan Soto, Ketel

HOUSTON – For a week, he had been the heart and soul of an upstart Italian squad, brewing up post-homer espresso shots in the dugout, kissing his teammates on the cheeks, arranging a spontaneous after-hours dip in the hotel’s lazy river and passing out celebratory bottles of wine to team

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Ernie Whitt walked into the postgame press conference, sat down and smiled. “I'm very excited about it, needless to say,” Canada’s manager said. “It's been a long haul.” Whitt has been the Canadian manager in every World Baseball Classic since the first tournament in 2006

What a day of baseball. The final day of pool play in the 2026 World Baseball Classic began with plenty of intrigue and did not disappoint, with excitement abound. At the end of the day, we have Canada advancing past pool play for the first time in the WBC, and

MIAMI -- This Dominican Republic lineup is all-time. And so are its home run celebrations. Juan Soto, Ketel Marte, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Fernando Tatis Jr. all crushed monster home runs in the heavyweight bout between the D.R. and Venezuela on Wednesday night at the World Baseball Classic, which the

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The Phillies announced earlier today that former All-Star second baseman Chase Utley, who was an integral part of the 2008 World Series championship team, has been selected as the 2026 Toyota Phillies Wall of Fame inductee, one of the two most prestigious honors bestowed by the organization. The induction ceremony

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You know you’re getting older, becoming a real grown-up, when you realize you’re the same age as Major League Baseball players. Then it dawns on you that players your age are considered “grizzled veterans.” And, eventually, there’s no one your age who is still active in MLB. Then you are

SARASOTA, Fla. -- Konnor Griffin has certainly looked big league-ready at times in Spring Training. Of course, he's also still just a 19-year-old prospect.

We are all about the future at MLB Pipeline. Obviously, any talk about prospects and who they might become involves some prognostication. Fresh off flexing those muscles to present every organization’s Top 30 prospects list, we’re keeping our crystal ball in active mode to provide a prospect prediction for each

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Opening Night is just two weeks away, and Netflix is getting us in the spirit for a season-opening showdown.