{"id":629641,"date":"2026-03-18T07:53:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/629641\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T07:53:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:53:50","slug":"world-baseball-classic-scores-results-venezuela-defeats-team-usa-to-win-first-wbc-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/629641\/","title":{"rendered":"World Baseball Classic scores, results: Venezuela defeats Team USA to win first WBC title"},"content":{"rendered":"

The World Baseball Classic concluded Tuesday, with Venezuela defeating the U.S. 3-2<\/a> in the final to win the tournament for the first time.<\/p>\n

2026 World Baseball Classic pool play resultsPool A | Hiram Bithorn Stadium, San Juan, Puerto Rico<\/p>\n

Canada* (3-1)
Puerto Rico* (3-1)
Cuba (2-2)
Colombia (1-3)
Panama (1-3)<\/p>\n

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Pool B | Daikin Park, Houston<\/p>\n

Italy* (4-0)
USA* (3-1)
Mexico (2-2)
Great Britain (1-3)
Brazil (0-4)<\/p>\n

Pool C | Tokyo Dome, Tokyo<\/p>\n

Japan* (4-0)
Korea* (2-2)
Australia (2-2)
Chinese Taipei (2-2)
Czechia (0-4)<\/p>\n

Pool D | loanDepot Park, Miami<\/p>\n

Dominican Republic* (4-0)
Venezuela* (3-1)
Israel (2-2)
Netherlands (1-3)
Nicaragua (0-4)<\/p>\n

*\u2014 Advanced to quarterfinals<\/p>\n

World Baseball Classic scores<\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 4
10 p.m.: Australia 3, Chinese Taipei 0<\/a><\/p>\n

Thursday, March 5
5 a.m.: South Korea 11, Czechia 4<\/a>\u00a0
10 p.m.: Australia 5, Czechia 1<\/a> <\/p>\n

Friday, March 6
5 a.m.: Japan 13, Chinese Taipei 0<\/a>
11 a.m.: Cuba 3, Panama 1<\/a>
Noon: Venezuela 6, Netherlands 2<\/a>
1 p.m.: Mexico 8, Great Britain 2<\/a>
6 p.m.: Puerto Rico 5, Colombia 0<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0
7 p.m.: Dominican Republic 12, Nicaragua 3<\/a>
8 p.m.: U.S. 15, Brazil 5<\/a>
10 p.m.: Chinese Taipei 14, Czechia 0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Saturday, March 7
5 a.m.: Japan 8, South Korea 6<\/a>
11 a.m.: Canada 8, Colombia 2<\/a>\u00a0
Noon: Netherlands 4, Nicaragua 3<\/a>
1 p.m.: Italy 8, Brazil 0<\/a>
6 p.m.: Puerto Rico 4, Panama 3<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0
7 p.m.: Venezuela 11, Israel 3<\/a>
8 p.m.: U.S. 9, Great Britain 1<\/a>
10 p.m.: Chinese Taipei 5, South Korea 4<\/a><\/p>\n

Sunday, March 8
6 a.m.: Japan 4, Australia 3<\/a>
Noon: Cuba 7, Colombia 4<\/a>
Noon: Dominican Republic 12, Netherlands 1<\/a>
1 p.m.: Italy 7, Great Britain 4<\/a>
7 p.m.: Israel 5, Nicaragua 0<\/a>
7 p.m.: Panama 4, Canada 3<\/a>
8 p.m.: Mexico 16, Brazil 0<\/a><\/p>\n

Monday, March 9
6 a.m.: South Korea 7, Australia 2<\/a>
Noon: Dominican Republic 10, Israel 1<\/a>
Noon: Colombia 4, Panama 3<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0
1 p.m.: Great Britain 8, Brazil 1<\/a>
7 p.m.: Puerto Rico 4, Cuba 1<\/a>
7 p.m.: Venezuela 4, Nicaragua 0<\/a>
8 p.m.: U.S. 5, Mexico 3<\/a><\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 10
6 a.m.: Japan 9, Czechia 0<\/a>
7 p.m.: Israel 6, Netherlands 2<\/a>
7 p.m.: Canada 3, Puerto Rico 2<\/a>
9 p.m.: Italy 8, USA 6<\/a><\/p>\n

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Wednesday, March 11
3 p.m.: Canada 7, Cuba 2<\/a>\u00a0
7 p.m.: Italy 9, Mexico 1<\/a>
8 p.m.: Dominican Republic 7, Venezuela 5<\/a><\/p>\n

Quarterfinals<\/p>\n

Friday, March 13
6:30 p.m.: Dominican Republic 10, Korea 0<\/a> (7 innings)
8 p.m.: USA 5, Canada 3<\/a><\/p>\n

Saturday, March 14
3 p.m.: Italy 8, Puerto Rico 6<\/a>
9 p.m.: Venezuela 8, Japan 5<\/a><\/p>\n

Semifinals<\/p>\n

Sunday, March 15 8 p.m.: Team USA 2, Dominican Republic 1<\/a>
Monday, March 16 8 p.m.: Venezuela 4, Italy 2<\/a><\/p>\n

Championship<\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 17 8 p.m.: Venezuela 3, Team USA 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The World Baseball Classic concluded Tuesday, with Venezuela defeating the U.S. 3-2 in the final to win the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,1465,42502,3723,74882,1888,63458,13565,2372,4,18784,13337,2528,16773,8814,4820],"class_list":["post-629641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-canada","tag-chinese-taipei","tag-cuba","tag-czechia","tag-dominican-republic","tag-great-britain","tag-israel","tag-japan","tag-mlb","tag-nicaragua","tag-panama","tag-puerto-rico","tag-south-korea","tag-venezuela","tag-world-baseball-classic"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116249101590736381","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629641","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=629641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}