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2026 World Baseball Classic bracket, schedule: Venezuela advances to face Team USA in title game
Venezuela is the champion of the 2026 World Baseball Classic after upsetting Team USA 3-2 in dramatic fashion in Tuesday night's title game.
Venezuela held a 2-0 lead into the eighth inning before Bryce Harper tied things up with a towering two-run home run in the bottom of the frame. But the game wasn't tied for long as Eugenio Suárez slugged a clutch double in the top of the ninth to put Venezuela back in front. Daniel Palencia then shut the door in the bottom of the ninth to seal the first World Baseball Classic title in Venezuela's history and USA's second straight runner-up finish.
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Levi Weaver thinks Venezuela is the underdog with the best shot of winning the World Baseball Classic. Rich Storry / Getty Images
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WBC elimination play begins tonight — Jayson Stark wonders: What if it didn’t? Plus: We rank the underdogs, we fill you in on some actual spring training signings and our Baseball Card of the Week is an ode to the junk wax era.
Determining the remaining underdogs isn’t too complicated: Teams USA, Japan and Dominican Republic are the three favorites. That leaves Canada, Italy, Puerto Rico, Korea and Venezuela as the five underdogs.
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World Baseball Classic Quarterfinals Open Thread
The World Baseball Classic is just a few days out from wrapping up, and the quarterfinals are set to take place this weekend, with two games per day on Friday and Saturday.
Friday’s matchups include Korea taking on the Dominican Republic at 5:30 p.m. CT on FS2 and Team USA battling Canada at 7 p.m. on Fox. Saturday’s matchups feature Puerto Rico against Italy at 2 p.m. on FS1 and Venezuela facing Japan at 8 p.m. on Fox.
The Brewers still have players on five of the eight teams (though only four of those teams feature players on the 40-man roster). Going in order of this weekend’s schedule, this includes:
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