The 2026 World Baseball Classic is here. Featuring 20 national teams, pool play begins March 4 and the tournament spans 14 days. <\/p>\n
The Classic Final will be played at 8:00 p.m. ET on March 17 at loanDepot park in Miami.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Phillies could feature 15 players across 10 teams:<\/p>\n
1B Bryce Harper (United States)<\/p>\n
DH Kyle Schwarber (United States)<\/p>\n
RHP Brad Keller (United States)<\/p>\n
LHP Cristopher S\u00e1nchez (Dominican Republic)<\/p>\n
LHP Jes\u00fas Luzardo (Venezuela \u2014 reserve)<\/p>\n
RHP Aaron Nola (Italy)<\/p>\n
OF Dante Nori (Italy)<\/p>\n
RHP Taijuan Walker (Mexico)<\/p>\n
RHP Alan Rangel (Mexico)<\/p>\n
C Garrett Stubbs (Israel)<\/p>\n
RHP Max Lazar (Israel)<\/p>\n
INF Edmundo Sosa (Panama)<\/p>\n
RHP Gabriel Barbosa (Brazil)<\/p>\n
RHP Jaydenn Estanista (Netherlands)<\/p>\n
RHP Mitch Neunborn (Australia)<\/p>\n
The Phillies will also play an exhibition vs. Team Canada on March 4 at BayCare Ballpark, with Aaron Nola slated to start.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHis first time in the country will be to represent them in the World Baseball Classic\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
This tracker will provide updates throughout the tournament, including Phillies performances, player news, and recaps.<\/p>\n
Schedule (Phillies representatives only, recaps to follow):<\/p>\n
March 4 (Wednesday):<\/p>\n
Chinese Taipei vs. Australia (10 pm ET \u2014 FS1\/FOX Deportes)\u00a0<\/p>\n
March 5 (Thursday):<\/p>\n
Australia vs. Czechia (10 pm ET \u2014 FS1\/FOX Deportes)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
March 6 (Friday):<\/p>\n
Cuba vs. Panama (11 am ET \u2014 FS2\/FOX Deportes)<\/p>\n
Mexico vs. Great Britain (1 pm ET \u2014 FS1\/FOX Deportes)<\/p>\n
USA vs. Brazil (8 pm ET \u2014 FOX\/FOX Deportes)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
March 7 (Saturday):<\/p>\n
Nicaragua vs. Netherlands (12 pm ET \u2014 Tubi)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brazil vs. Italy (1 pm ET \u2014 FOX Sports App)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Panama vs. Puerto Rico (6 pm ET \u2014 FS1\/FOX Deportes)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Israel vs. Venezuela (7 pm ET \u2014 FS2)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Great Britain vs. USA (8 pm ET \u2014 FOX)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
March 8 (Sunday):<\/p>\n
Australia vs. Japan (6 am ET \u2014 FS1\/FOX Deportes)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Netherlands vs. Dominican Republic (12 pm ET \u2014 FOX\/FOX Deportes)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Great Britain vs. Italy (1 pm ET \u2014 Tubi)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Panama vs. Canada (7 pm ET \u2014 FS2)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nicaragua vs. Israel (7 pm ET \u2014 Tubi)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brazil vs. Mexico (8 pm ET \u2014 FS1\/FOX Deportes)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
March 9 (Monday):<\/p>\n
Korea vs. Australia (6 am ET \u2014 FS1\/FOX Deportes)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Colombia vs. Panama (12 pm ET \u2014 FS2)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dominican Republic vs. Israel (12 pm ET \u2014 FS1\/FOX Deportes)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Venezuela vs. Nicaragua (7 pm ET \u2014 FS2)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mexico vs. USA (8 pm ET \u2014 FOX\/FOX Deportes)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
March 10 (Tuesday):<\/p>\n
Israel vs. Netherlands (7 pm ET \u2014 FOX Sports App\/FOX Deportes)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Italy vs. USA (9 pm ET \u2014 FS1\/FOX Deportes)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
March 11 (Wednesday):<\/p>\n
Italy vs. Mexico (7 pm ET \u2014 Tubi)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dominican Republic vs. Venezuela (8 pm ET \u2014 FS1\/FOX Deportes)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Knockout round titles<\/p>\n
March 13 (Friday) \u2014 Quarterfinals:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Quarterfinal 1: Pool C runner-up vs. Pool D winner (6:30 pm ET \u2014 FS2\/FOX Deportes)<\/p>\n
Quarterfinal 2: Pool A runner-up vs. Pool B winner (8 pm ET \u2014 FOX\/FOX Deportes)<\/p>\n
March 14 (Saturday) \u2014 Quarterfinals:<\/p>\n
Quarterfinal 3: Pool B runner-up vs. Pool A winner (3 pm ET \u2014 FS1\/FOX Deportes)<\/p>\n
Quarterfinal 4: Pool D runner-up vs. Pool C winner (9 pm ET \u2014 FOX\/FOX Deportes)<\/p>\n
March 15 (Sunday) \u2014 Semifinal:<\/p>\n
Semifinal 1: QF1 winner vs. QF2 winner (8 pm ET \u2014 FS1\/FOX Deportes)<\/p>\n
March 16 (Monday) \u2014 Semifinal:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Semifinal 2: QF3 winner vs. QF4 winner (8 pm ET \u2014 FS1\/FOX Deportes)<\/p>\n
March 17 (Tuesday) \u2014 Championship:<\/p>\n
Classic Final: SF1 winner vs. SF2 winner (8 pm ET \u2014 FOX\/FOX Deportes)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 World Baseball Classic is here. Featuring 20 national teams, pool play begins March 4 and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[5,4,144,25,4216,40,16702],"class_list":{"0":"post-603556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-phillies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","12":"tag-philadelphiaphillies","13":"tag-phillies","14":"tag-phillies-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116165404530866021","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603556","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=603556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}