Team Venezuela takes curtain call in Vegas for World Baseball Classic title
LAS VEGAS -- “Viva Venezuela!” a fan in the crowd at the Chelsea Theater yelled as William Contreras walked onto the stage with the Brewers’ Commissioner’s Trophy.
Team Venezuela won its first World Baseball Classic title back in March, excelling in a thrilling championship game against Team USA in which Eugenio
Si Hwan Roh leads next crop of MLB-bound KBO stars
Players who have won the World Series and World Baseball Classic
Winning a World Series is cool. So is winning a World Baseball Classic. How about both?
Better yet, how about winning both of them in the same year? That happened for three members of the 2026 Brewers World Series team who also won the '26 World Baseball Classic
MLBx brings baseball to India with event in Mumbai
Baseball fans have long seen commonalities between the American pastime and cricket, a sport that is loved by billions of people around the world -- particularly in India. Each sport has a bat and a ball. The objective for the offense is to score runs. The object defensively is to
Four NPB stars who could be Major League-bound
Venezuela's championship DNA sparking Brewers' October run
MILWAUKEE -- What a difference a year can make. This time around, the trip from Milwaukee to Los Angeles feels very different. The Brewers are enjoying a 2-0 lead in the National League Championship Series after winning the first two games at home over the Dodgers.
This Milwaukee team
Spain qualifies for its first Premier12, with Italy returning for first time since 2015
Playing in front of a home crowd in Barcelona -- at the training grounds from the 1992 Olympic Games, the first where baseball was a medal sport -- Spain took care of business at the 2027 Premier12 Qualifiers. They now advance to the tournament for the first time in
World Baseball Classic experience paying off for Caminero, Aranda in October
ST. PETERSBURG – As he waited in the on-deck circle before an at-bat last Saturday in Game 1 of the American League Division Series, with more than 40,000 vociferous Rays and Yankees fans in attendance at Tropicana Field, Tampa Bay third baseman Junior Caminero remarked to manager Kevin Cash that
'The Shot Heard 'Round the World'? We found Bobby Thomson's Scottish family to see how true that is
It was called “The shot heard ‘round the world” – though the newspaper editors who coined it likely had no idea how right they were. While American baseball has never been shy about applying a global moniker to its domestic contests (it is called the World Series after all), Bobby
Indian cricket superstars Shardul Thakur, Jitesh Sharma and Kashvee Gautam join MLB legends for MLBx: Mumbai
When MLBx -- the modified co-ed 3-on-3 home run-and-defense derby -- takes the field in Mumbai, it will answer a very important question: Who's better at smashing home runs -- MLB's former slugging superstars, softball's best hitters, or India's greatest cricket stars?
While the event will be played on
For Blue Jays' historic all-Italian battery, they're ready for the moment
The two ballplayers had never met before arriving in Dunedin, Fla., swapping out Italy’s azzurri blue for the Blue Jays’ shade. But now Giaconino Lasaracina and Giacomo Taschin are together. Not just as teammates and road trip roomies for the Single-A ballclub, though: They just might be the
10 of the coolest international baseball objects in the Hall of Fame
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The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is a place of worship: There in
Hao-Yu Lee sets single-season record for hits by a player born in Taiwan
Tigers rookie Hao-Yu Lee had himself a night on Monday: The rookie second baseman went 3-for-3 with two walks -- reaching base all five times -- and driving in two runs in the Tigers' 8-5 win against the Pirates. Along the way, Lee put himself in the record
For baseball's youngest pitcher, it's never too early to fulfill your dreams
“My mentality is always to attack the hitters,” Braves flamethrower Didier Fuentes told MLB.com, via translator Javier Román. “I don't focus on anything else or try to do more than what is required, because that can be counterproductive.”
It’s a strategy big league hitters have come to know all too well.
Curtis Mead nearly chose a much more popular Aussie sport. But he didn't love to run
If Curtis Mead had listened to his father, he wouldn't have made his Red Sox debut on Monday night. He'd be a star in the Australian Football League.
That's not because his father is some anti-baseball zealot, though. He was a ballplayer himself, suiting up for the Adelaide Giants
USA sweeps Women's Baseball World Cup group stage with combo no-no to advance to finals
The USA made it look easy. Playing in Rockford, Ill. -- the former home of the Rockford Peaches of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (and just a few hours' drive from Springfield, Ill., where the Women's Professional Baseball League will begin this coming weekend) -- the United States blitzed
After 50 years and 30 countries, ex-MLB manager McLaren continues to 'spread the word of baseball'
Former big league manager John McLaren had his career planned from a young age, telling his schoolteachers, "I'm going to make a living in baseball.” But even the 74-year-old baseball lifer couldn't have predicted where the game would end up taking him.
Name a job, and he's likely done
Raw herring and homers: Honkbalweek has both
The cap worn by the 'Czech electrician' who struck out Shohei Ohtani enters Hall of Fame
He struck out Shohei Ohtani -- along with Lars Nootbaar and Munetaka Murakami, though those two K's didn’t receive nearly the same level of attention.
10 of the most interesting international draftees
Usually, when we talk about international players, we're talking about the international signees who can join MLB organizations as young as 18 years old. But that's not the only path to pro baseball. As college baseball has become an ever more important development path for players -- and
Indian cricket star SKY to serve as MLB Ambassador
The SKY is the limit for Major League Baseball.
On Wednesday, MLB announced a new partnership with Indian cricket star Suryakumar Yadav -- known as SKY -- in order to expand the presence of baseball in India. Yadav will serve as an MLB Ambassador, working with MLB on fan engagement, original
The Cardinals coach spreading baseball around the world
Roar! Kids learn baseball from dinos at MLB Play Ball event in England
The creature lies in wait. He stands with short arms close to his body, running in fits and starts and letting out sporadic roars while trying to grab hold of his target.
No, he’s not a dinosaur. He’s an English child learning how to play baseball.
For the Greenwich Giants,
Venezuela's Classic cult hero breaks down the steal heard 'round the world
Red Sox Nation has Dave Roberts, his daring theft of second base jumpstarting Boston’s remarkable comeback in the 2004 ALCS.
For Venezuelans, they have Javier Sanoja, his ninth-inning steal setting up the game-winning run in this spring’s World Baseball Classic final against the USA.
But Venezuela