2026 World Baseball Classic

[GirlySports]

Starts this week!

Canada plays warm ups against the Jays (Tuesday) Phillies (Wednesday) in Dunedin.

Top Two in Each pool advance to the quarterfinals

Pool A (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Puerto Rico
Panama
Cuba
Colombia
Canada

Pool B (Houston, Texas)
USA
Mexico
Italy
Great Britain
Brazil

Pool C (Tokyo, Japan)
Japan
South Korea
Chinese Taipei
Australia
Czechia

Pool D (Miami, Florida)
Venezuela
Netherlands
Domincan Republic
Israel
Nicaragua

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_W...seball_Classic

Preview:


Canada:


2023:

[GirlySports]

Michael Soroka will get the ball for Canada's first game on Saturday against Colombia, while Jameson Taillon will start Sunday against Panama,

[transplant99]

Heard on the radio yesterday (forget who exactly) that there was a bigger crowd in Tokyo yesterday to watch Ohtani and crew take BP, than there was to watch NY Jets home games last year.

No idea if true but thought it hilarious if so.

[SuperMatt18]

A bit off topic but I would highly recommend anybody who is a baseball fan (or not for that matter) to go to a Baseball game at the Tokyo Dome.

Still one of the best sporting experiences of my lifetime and even saw Okamoto hit 2 HRs that day.

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

A bit off topic but I would highly recommend anybody who is a baseball fan (or not for that matter) to go to a Baseball game at the Tokyo Dome.

Still one of the best sporting experiences of my lifetime and even saw Okamoto hit 2 HRs that day.

I'm unreasonably excited about that - we're going to Japan at the end of the month and have tickets for the Yomiuri Giants home opener.