Japan's star pitcher Shohei Ohtani struck-out the US captain to win the game The World Baseball Classic (WBC) final between Japan and the US delivered on many fronts: sporting prowess, drama and ...
The 2023 World Baseball Classic was a resounding success as evident in attendance, viewership, and merchandise sales. It also didn’t hurt to have the United States and Japan battle to the bitter ...
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Major League Baseball announced the pools and locations where the 2026 WBC will be played. Personally, I’m a bit disappointed that there won’t be any games in the Phoen ...
Louis Cardinals outfielder with the Dutch name of Lars Nootbaar seemed an unlikely pick for the Japanese national team in the upcoming World Baseball Classic. But it turns out Nootbaar is half ...
Roki Sasaki wore number 17 for his NPB team, the Chiba Lotte Marines. He wore number 14 for the Japanese team at the 2023 World Baseball Classic. Now that he's ...
In sports, few decisions are as emotionally charged as choosing which nation to represent on the world stage, a dilemma former New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez faced at the 2006 World Baseball Cla ...
he was part of a historic USA team that went on to win the World Baseball Classic in 2017. Team USA beat Puerto Rico 8-0 in the championship game to win the first WBC in the country's history and ...