It\u2019s here! We\u2019ve arrived at the World Baseball Classic Final and while one team was absolutely expected to be here, the other team is looking to cap off a dark horse run to a WBC title. Team USA was clearly one of the favorites to win this thing and they\u2019ve held up their end of the bargain (outside of a Pool play slip-up that nearly eliminated them) by being the last of the trio of favorites standing \u2014 Japan tripped up in the Quarterfinals and Team USA took care of the Dominican Republic, themselves, on their way to reaching the Final.<\/p>\n
So the other team that meets Team USA in the Final is Venezuela. Despite having to take a difficult route to the Final after losing to the Dominican Republic in Pool play, here they are. Venezuela was the team that tripped up Japan and then they got here after beating a red-hot Italy squad in comeback fashion.<\/p>\n
So now here we are: Will Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. return to Braves camp as a World Baseball Classic champion or will the star-studded and star-spangled Team USA claim their first WBC crown since 2017? It\u2019s time to find out.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the lineups for both squads:<\/p>\n
First pitch is scheduled for 8:00 p.m. ET and you can catch the game on FOX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s here! We\u2019ve arrived at the World Baseball Classic Final and while one team was absolutely expected to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,73299,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-629021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlanta-braves-discussion","11":"tag-atlantabraves","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-braves","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116247205539793342","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629021","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=629021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}