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U.S. captain Mike Trout drove in all three runs as the United States defeated Colombia 3-2 on Wednesday to book their place in the quarterfinals of the World Baseball Classic. Los Angeles Angels outfielder Trout — one of the figureheads of a star-studded U.S. line-up — knocked in singles in […]

Puerto Rico eliminated the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic on Wednesday night, but the winners — and the New York Mets — may have sustained a devastating loss in the process. After Puerto Rico and Mets closer Edwin Diaz struck out Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Teoscar Hernandez looking […]

Cuba needed to end up on the right side of a complex tiebreaker system to reach the World Baseball Classic quarterfinals. Qualifying for the semifinals was a much easier process: just beat Australia. Alfredo Despaigne drove in the tiebreaking run to spark a three-run fifth inning, and Cuba held on […]

No matter what happens in Samurai Japan’s matchup against Italy in the World Baseball Classic quarterfinals on Thursday night, it will be the team’s last game in Japan. So manager Hideki Kuriyama is counting on his No. 1 pitcher to give the fans a good show. Shohei Ohtani will get […]

When St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Lars Nootbaar left spring training with the MLB club to join Samurai Japan for the World Baseball Classic, he was not sure what to expect. Nootbaar, an American, jumped at the chance to represent his mother Kumiko’s homeland when Japan reached out. The 25-year-old knew […]

Australia manager Dave “Dingo” Nilsson is a former member of the Chunichi Dragons and has fond memories of his time in Japan. Nilsson is back in the country for the World Baseball Classic as the manager of the Australian national team and guided the squad to three wins in its […]

Team Australia has already advanced further than it ever has at the World Baseball Classic. So why stop now? The Australians, who advanced to the quarterfinals out of Pool B, alongside Japan, have their sights set on a showdown against Cuba and a place in the semifinals on Wednesday night […]

The World Baseball Classic’s Tokyo-based Pool B has not only shone a light on MLB stars such as Shohei Ohtani and South Korea’s Kim Ha-seong. Japanese fans have also been in the spotlight. The enthusiasm from the crowds at Tokyo Dome was one of the defining features of the action […]

Czech Republic pitcher Ondrej Satoria is going to have a heck of a story to tell when he returns to his job as a technician at an electric company. It’s not every day, after all, that you strike out Shohei Ohtani during the World Baseball Classic — and then meet […]

Czech Republic pitcher Ondrej Satoria is going to have a heck of a story to tell when he returns to his job as a technician at an electric company. It’s not every day, after all, that you strike out Shohei Ohtani during the World Baseball Classic — and then meet […]