World Baseball Classic 2026 (Info + Games)

[Mary1966]

Aaron Nola will be pitching for Italy instead of Michael Lorenzen, per MLB.TV.

[CardsofSTL]

No score in the 2nd.

[Mary1966]

Nola gave up a HR and was pulled in favor of Lorenzen, who gave up 3 runs. Score is Venezuela 4, Italy 2 in the 8th.

[Mary1966]

Final score: Venezuela 4, Italy 2. I picked Venezuela as the team I wanted to win the championship because of Contreras, but then I got caught up in Italy’s Cinderella run. Now that Venezuela has defeated Italy, I’m back to rooting for Venezuela.

[CardsofSTL]

Venezuela

RF Ronald Acuna Jr.
3B Maikel Garcia
1B Luis Arraez
DH Eugenio Suarez
2B Gleyber Torres
SS Ezequiel Tovar
LF Wilyer Abreu
C Salvador Perez
CF Jackson Chourio

P Eduardo Rodriguez

USA

SS Bobby Witt Jr
1B Bryce Harper
RF Aaron Judge
DH Kyle Schwarber
3B Alex Bregman
LF Roman Anthony
C Will Smith
2B Brice Turang
CF Byron Buxton

P Nolan McLean

[CardsofSTL]

I'm going to root for the USA

[Mary1966]

Final score: Venezuela 3, USA 2. They put Contreras in for the 9th.

[booger71]

In the grand scheme of things, this was just an all-star game before the regular season.

[Radbird]

Congrats to Venezuela! Geno is pumped up.

[CardsofSTL]

I thought it was a pretty good game, went down to the wire. That is good baseball.