{"id":568521,"date":"2026-02-12T17:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/568521\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:15:14","slug":"heres-the-complete-world-baseball-classic-tv-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/568521\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s the complete World Baseball Classic TV schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 2026 World Baseball Classic begins in less than three weeks \u2014 Wednesday, March 4, to be exact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That\u2019s actually Thursday, March 5 in Japan, where the first games of pool play will take place. The three other pools \u2014 in San Juan, Houston and Miami \u2014 will begin play Friday, March 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">All the games will be carried in the USA by Fox. They will appear mostly on FS1 and FS2, with a handful of games on Tubi and a couple exclusively via Fox\u2019s streaming app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Fox-TV broadcast network will carry seven games, including Team USA\u2019s first game vs. Brazil Friday, March 6 in Houston at 7 p.m. CT. Fox-TV will also carry two quarterfinal games and the championship game on Tuesday, March 17. All games will be available for streaming via Fox One (subscription required).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here\u2019s the full schedule (open <a href=\"https:\/\/platform.bleedcubbieblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-12-at-8.47.56\u202fAM-copy.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/platform.bleedcubbieblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-12-at-8.48.09\u202fAM.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a> for larger versions of the two images):<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Josh and I will have extensive coverage of the WBC here. As you know, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleedcubbieblue.com\/baseball-news\/206549\/pete-crow-armstrong-alex-bregman-cubs-world-baseball-classic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quite a few Cubs are participating<\/a> so you\u2019ll be able to follow along with them as well as the rest of the WBC teams. And, the Cubs will face Team Italy in an exhibition game Tuesday, March 3 at Sloan Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 World Baseball Classic begins in less than three weeks \u2014 Wednesday, March 4, to be exact.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,4245,161,4,4820],"class_list":{"0":"post-568521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-chicagocubs","12":"tag-cubs","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-world-baseball-classic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116058792068368767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}