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Sat, March 7, 2026 at 7:09 PM PST<\/p>\n
Jack Baer<\/p>\n
The Americans are pouring it now, loading the bases with no outs in the sixth inning then bringing two in via a sacrifice fly from Alex Bregman and single from Aaron Judge.<\/p>\n
Sat, March 7, 2026 at 7:02 PM PST<\/p>\n
Jack Baer<\/p>\n
Panama nearly had it. They were up 2-1 going into the ninth inning, then walked in the tying run with two outs. They scored in the top of the 10th, but Puerto Rico tied it again. Then, a walkoff homer from Darell Hernaiz.<\/p>\n
An electric moment for the hosts of Pool A, a heartbreaker for the underdogs.<\/p>\n
Sat, March 7, 2026 at 6:48 PM PST<\/p>\n
Jack Baer<\/p>\n
Venezuela takes a one-sided game behind a 4-for-5 game with two homers from Luis Arraez. That makes them nearly guaranteed to advance out of Group D.<\/p>\n
Sat, March 7, 2026 at 6:43 PM PST<\/p>\n
Jack Baer<\/p>\n
With the bases loaded, two outs and a full count, Gunnar Henderson rips a double to extend the American lead. This is starting to look like the game we expected.<\/p>\n
Sat, March 7, 2026 at 6:31 PM PST<\/p>\n
Jack Baer<\/p>\n
Kyle Schwarber hit a lot of homers for the Philadelphia Phillies last year and just crushed one for Team USA. It was a tense first half of the game, but the Americans are now in control.<\/p>\n
Sat, March 7, 2026 at 6:30 PM PST<\/p>\n
Jack Baer<\/p>\n
Ernie Clement reached base on an error, took third on a Pete Crow-Armstrong double and scored on a wild pitch to tie this game. Here come the Americans.<\/p>\n
Sat, March 7, 2026 at 6:14 PM PST<\/p>\n
Jack Baer<\/p>\n
Najer Victor is a 24-year-old Angels minor league who\u2019s never even pitched in Double-A. He just struck out Aaron Judge, Bryce Harper and Gunnar Henderson in a scoreless fourth inning.<\/p>\n
Great Britain still leads 1-0.<\/p>\n
Sat, March 7, 2026 at 5:52 PM PST<\/p>\n
Jack Baer<\/p>\n
Team USA manager Mark DeRosa just told the Fox broadcast that he\u2019s bringing in Clay Holmes to pitch in the fourth inning, so that will do it for Tarik Skubal\u2019s day.<\/p>\n
As we all expected, Skubal will exit with his team trailing against Great Britain. The only guy to record a hit on him: Boston Red Sox utility man Nate Eaton.<\/p>\n
Sat, March 7, 2026 at 5:32 PM PST<\/p>\n
Jack Baer<\/p>\n
The best play of the WBC now belongs to Great Britain right fielder Trayce Thompson, who robbed his former Dodgers teammate Will Smith of a game-tying homer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 World Baseball Classic is underway in pool play, and the sport\u2019s best player hasn\u2019t needed long…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2290],"tags":[10264,106,18955,5,3297,2372,877,468,4819],"class_list":["post-613224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-2026-world-baseball-classic","tag-aaron-judge","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-cal-raleigh","tag-japan","tag-paul-skenes","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-team-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116193353902928012","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613224","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=613224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Sun, March 8, 2026 at 4:33 AM PDT<\/p>\n