Team USA improved to 2-0 at the 2026 World Baseball Classic with a 9-1 win against Great Britain on Saturday and gets a day off before returning to action against Mexico on Monday, March 9. NL Cy Young winner Paul Skenes is scheduled to start for the Americans,

But on that topic, Andrew Baggarly has uncovered an unexpected fact: For teams in the Americas, this WBC is their last chance to qualify for those 2028 Olympics. From Baggarly’s story:

In the WBC’s first game on Monday, South Korea beat Australia 7-2 to reach the quarterfinals from Pool C. That gave South Korea a 2-2 record in pool play, identical to Australia and Chinese Taipei — and South Korea’s seventh run against the Aussies swung the run-quotient tiebreaker in their favor.

In Mexico’s onslaught against the U.S. in 2023, Joey Meneses broke the game open with his second of two home runs in front of 47,534 fans at Chase Field. Meneses, who is on Team Mexico again this year but has only logged one at-bat through the first two games, knocked in five runs and had three of Mexico’s 15 hits in that offensive barrage.

For the most part, WBC games are pretty easy to find ... with one very irritating (and confusing) exception.

The entire 2026 World Baseball Classic TV schedule has been revealed as reigning champions Japan, Team USA and other top countries compete in the March tournament. Shohei Ohtani and the Japanese team are going for an unprecedented fourth World

Two teams have advanced out of pool play at the 2026 World Baseball Classic, leaving six spots in the next round up for grabs. Samurai Japan clinched the top spot in Pool C with a narrow victory over Australia on Sunday,

While they are not the defending champions, Team USA is coming into the 2026 World Baseball Classic with one of the strongest rosters.

Just a bit...upside?

Dominican Republic stars like Junior Caminero, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., and Julio Rodríguez are off to hot starts in the World Baseball Classic, boosting their fantasy baseball outlook for 2026.