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

Tarik Skubal will be leaving Team USA after their game on Monday night against Mexico and returning to Tigers Spring Training, manager Mark DeRosa said. Skubal pitched three innings against Great Britain on Saturday, allowing a run on two hits while striking out five. After that start, he said he

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

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

HOUSTON -- It's time for the game we've all been waiting for in Pool B of the World Baseball Classic: USA-Mexico. The two baseball heavyweight nations are set to face off on Monday night at Daikin Park (8 p.m. ET, FOX) in what might be the most hyped game in

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s Board of Directors has selected Bill White as the 2026 recipient of the John Jordan “Buck” O’Neil Lifetime Achievement Award, presented to an individual for extraordinary efforts to enhance baseball’s positive impact on society. White, 92, will be honored with the Award

Four teams have advanced out of pool play at the 2026 World Baseball Classic, leaving four spots in the next round up for grabs. Samurai Japan clinched the top spot in Pool C with a narrow victory over Australia on Sunday, while Korea secured the second seed in that pool

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Two historically great international baseball nations. One World Baseball Classic game to rule them all. Cuba vs. Puerto Rico. The legendary names of Orlando Hernandez, Luis Tiant and Alexei Ramirez (oh, he’s still on the team?) against Carlos Delgado, Ivan Rodriguez and Edgar Martinez. Who

MIAMI -- Nicaragua may have been the first team in Pool D eliminated from the possibility of advancing, but manager Dusty Baker isn’t approaching Monday night’s game against Venezuela any differently than he would if his team was fighting for a spot in the quarterfinals. “I've been on first-place teams

SAN JUAN -- Paolo Espino doffed his cap to the Panama fans at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in Puerto Rico and gave his teammates high-fives and hugs as they poured out of the dugout. A 20-year career that started way back in the very first World Baseball Classic in 2006 had

TOKYO -- Korea began its week celebrating home runs by spreading their arms wide as if they were on an airplane, carrying an inflatable "M" to stand for Miami. On Monday night, needing a win against Australia and for everything to go exactly right, it made it happen. Forget the

There's so much on the line every Spring Training as all 30 MLB teams work to finalize their rosters for Opening Day. While some positions are set long before the season begins, each club is still trying to nail down at least one key aspect of its roster -- and

Through the first three games of World Baseball Classic play, Colombia was desperate for a big hit. In their fourth and final game of this year’s tournament, Reynaldo Rodriguez supplied one.

TOKYO -- One pitch changed Ondřej Satoria’s life -- and he thought it was a mistake. Facing Shohei Ohtani in the Tokyo Dome three years ago, Satoria -- an electrical controller at ČEZ Group in Ostrava, a city on the border of Poland – threw his changeup, which he calls

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- What a luxury it was for Astros manager Joe Espada to be able to write Carlos Correa's name into the lineup at shortstop in Monday’s 10-3 win over the Cardinals at CACTI Park of the Palm Beaches. With All-Star shortstop Jeremy Peña likely to begin

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 counties. Great Britain's 8-1 win in its Pool

Left-hander Joey Lucchesi is headed back to the Giants on a Minor League deal with an invite to big league Spring Training, MLB Network insider Jon Heyman reported Monday. The team has not confirmed the news.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- It was his sophomore year at Sam Houston State when catcher Walker Janek began to rapidly lose weight. He dropped about 25 pounds in a month and knew immediately something wasn’t right with his body. So what does any college student with a problem do?

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,

PHOENIX -- Spring Training formally begins for Brewers Minor Leaguers on Tuesday, so it was time for the organization’s top prospect to bid farewell to big league camp and begin preparing for the regular season. The Brewers returned 18-year-old Jesús Made to Minor League camp amid a flurry of roster

TOKYO -- Baseball has taken Todd Van Steensel around the world. He's pitched in the Minors for the Phillies and Twins, played for Kinheim in Holland's Honkbal Hoofdklasse, Guadalajara in the Mexican League (for current Mexican national team manager Benji Gil), the Tigres de Aragua in Venezuela's Winter League and

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Rebuilding a Major League team takes time. We often hear about so-called “five-year plans” when a club embarks on such a project, but just how soon a team can contend after tearing things down to the studs is an inexact science. Paul Toboni, who took

HOUSTON -- The Team Mexico electric factory has arrived in full force -- and the showdown with Team USA is on. Mexico’s bats erupted in a 16-0, six-inning run-rule-shortened drubbing of Brazil in their second game of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday. The offense is firing on all cylinders