After a six-year hiatus, the World Baseball Classic returned with a bang in 2023, with a thrilling tournament culminating in Japan becoming the first three-time WBC champion. Team USA’s latest run represented its second consecutive appearance in the cha
Miami —Shohei Ohtani emerged from the bullpen and fanned Los Angeles Angels teammate Mike Trout for the final out in the matchup the whole baseball world wanted to see, leading Japan over the defending champion United States 3-2 Tuesday night for its first World Baseball Classic title since 2...
Shohei Ohtani emerged from the bullpen and fanned Los Angeles Angels teammate Mike Trout for the final out in a matchup the whole baseball world wanted to see, leading Japan over the defending champion United States 3-2 Tuesday night for its first World Baseball Classic title since 2009. Oht...
Tokyo Dome opened in 1988 and has served as a host venue for every World Baseball Classic tournament: 2006, 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2023. The first round at the Tokyo Dome will take place March 5-10, 2026, and will feature Pool C teams -- Australia, Czechia, three-time champion Japan,...
Harry Ford. Also on the team isTrayce Thompson, the Dodgers outfielder who is the younger brother of 2016basketballOlympic championKlay. However, the team's biggest starJazz Chisholm– recently namedcover athleteof theMLB The Showvideo game for 2023 – misses out as he is working his way ...
president of the National League champion New York Giants, refused to play the returning American League champion Boston Americans. He was quoted as stating that he refused to compete with a "representative of the inferior American League". Surprisingly, Brush regretted the decision and later that ...
Baseball truly is an international sport. And as such, there has always been a demand for a World Cup-style tournament that would pit the best players from the different baseball playing nations against each other in order to determine a world champion. Before the World Baseball Classic debuted...
The 2023 World Baseball Classic gets underway Tuesday, March 7, as 20 national teams from five continents battle to determine a world champion. There are 300 players participating in the tournament, and over half (154) played NCAA baseball on their paths to representing t...
Defending Masters champion Jordan Spieth entered the back nine of the 2016 final round with a five-stroke lead but went into a tailspin that crescendoed with a quadruple bogey on the 12th hole. The famed Rae’s Creek sits at the bottom of the short par three, protecting the front of the...
1903: After two years of discord between the long-established National League and the upstart American League, the two circuits settled their differences and agreed to a postseason series to crown an Interleague champion, a best-of-nine "World's Championship Series." 1905: The NL champion Giant...