Walk-offs! Big blasts! And more from Saturday's World Baseball Classic action

Another full day of World Baseball Classic action on Saturday means baseball amazed us yet again. It was a day filled with walk-offs and wildness. Here’s a look at eights stats and facts from another wonderful day of baseball.

• We have to start at the end of the game. Two games, to be exact. In the first game of the Miami slate on Saturday, Ozzie Albies hit a walk-off home run for the Netherlands, marking the first walk-off home run in WBC history. Hours later, Darell Hernaiz hit a walk-off homer of his own for Puerto Rico on home soil. There had never been a walk-off home run in this tournament’s history before Saturday, and then we got two in one day. Baseball is the best.

• Not only were these the first two WBC walk-off home runs, it was the first day to feature two walk-offs of any kind. There have now been 11 walk-off wins in WBC history. The Netherlands has four of those, breaking a tie at three with the United States for the most of any team.

• Walk-offs weren’t the only type of home runs showcased on Saturday. There were 20 total home runs across the slate, tying March 8, 2009 for the most on a calendar date in WBC history. The 20 on Saturday included three multi-homer efforts -- Seiya Suzuki, Dante Noriand Luis Arraez. That’s tied for the most multi-homer games on a single day with, you guessed it, March 8, 2009 (Frederich Cepeda, Miguel Olivo, Chris Snelling).

• Seiya Suzuki’s multi-homer game was the third in Japan’s WBC history, joining Tetsuto Yamada on March 14, 2017 and Shinnosuke Abe on March 12, 2013. At 21 years and 151 days, Dante Nori of Italy became the second-youngest player in WBC history with a multi-homer game, older than only Lucas Ramirez at 20 years and 49 days on Friday.

• Luis Arraez produced the second multi-homer game in Venezuela’s WBC history, repeating his feat 2023. Arraez is the first player in WBC history with multiple multi-HR games in his career. The incredible part, which shows just how much the WBC stage means, is that Arraez, known as the best contact hitter in the game but not one for power, has one career multi-homer game at the Major or Minor League levels. The best part of all of this? Both his MLB multi-homer game and the two in the WBC have all come at loanDepot park. Arraez now has four career WBC home runs. The only Venezuela player with more is Miguel Cabrera (six).

• There have already been five individual multi-homer games this WBC. That’s the second-most in a single WBC, behind six in 2009. It’s been three days.

• Great Britain’s Nate Eaton hit a leadoff homer. It was the 11th in WBC history, first for Great Britain and second this WBC (Lucas Ramirez). The only WBC with more leadoff homers was 2006, when there were three.

• For the second consecutive WBC, Owen Caissie homered in Canada’s first game. He’s the fifth player to homer in multiple WBC-opening games for his team, per Elias. He joined 2023 and ‘26 Robbie Perkins, 2013 and ‘17 Drew Butera, 2009 and ‘17 Alfredo Despaigne and 2006 and ‘09 Yuli Gurriel.