{"id":641538,"date":"2026-03-08T18:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T18:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/641538\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T18:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T18:53:12","slug":"world-baseball-classic-2026-japan-improves-to-3-0-dominican-republic-hits-4-homers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/641538\/","title":{"rendered":"World Baseball Classic 2026: Japan improves to 3-0, Dominican Republic hits 4 homers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 3 of the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/topic\/world-baseball-classic\/\" data-i13n=\"slk:2026 World Baseball Classic;cpos:1;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:2026 World Baseball Classic;slk:2026 World Baseball Classic;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" target=\"_blank\">2026 World Baseball Classic<\/a> could see several teams fall into 0-3 holes to open pool play. Colombia, Great Britain, Nicaragua, Panama and Brazil go into Sunday each losing their first two games in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s marquee game pitted Japan versus Australia, and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/article\/world-baseball-classic-japan-improves-to-3-0-with-4-3-win-over-australia-125618631.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:Japan eked out a 4-3 win;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" target=\"_blank\">Japan eked out a 4-3 win<\/a>. Among the other six games on the schedule, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Italy, Canada and Mexico each have an opportunity to improve to 2-0 by the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Cuba faces Colombia, the Dominican Republic plays the Netherlands, Italy takes on Great Britain, Canada is matched up with Panama and Sunday\u2019s play ends with Mexico facing Brazil.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<\/strong><a class=\"link \" href=\"http:\/\/yahoofantasy.com\/baseball\" data-i13n=\"slk:Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Baseball league for the 2026 MLB season;cpos:3;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Baseball league for the 2026 MLB season;slk:Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Baseball league for the 2026 MLB season;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"><strong>Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Baseball league for the 2026 MLB season<\/strong><\/a><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dominican Republic 12, Netherlands 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Juan Soto\u2019s 2-run homer gives the Dominican Republic a 12-1 walkoff win over the Netherlands in seven innings.<\/p>\n<p>Soto\u2019s long ball was one of four for the DR, with Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Junior Caminero and Austin Wells also going deep. The Dominican Republic improved to 2-0 in Pool D play.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Japan 4, Australia 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Masataka Yoshida\u2019s 2-run home run in the seventh inning gave Japan the lead after going scoreless for the previous six frames. Japan added two more runs in the eighth on a pinch-hit RBI double from Teruaki Sato and Seiya Suzuki drawing a bases-loaded walk (after Shohei Ohtani was intentionally walked).<\/p>\n<p>Ohtani finished 0-for-3 with two walks after coming into Sunday\u2019s matchup with 5 hits, 2 home runs and 6 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/article\/world-baseball-classic-japan-improves-to-3-0-with-4-3-win-over-australia-125618631.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:Read more here;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s WBC schedule, how to watch<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li\/>\n<li>\n<p>Cuba vs. Colombia, noon ET on FS2\/Fubo<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Dominican Republic vs. Netherlands, noon ET on Fox\/Fubo<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Italy vs. Great Britain, 1 p.m. ET on Tubi<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Israel vs. Nicaragua, 7 p.m. ET on Tubi<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Canada vs. Panama, 7 p.m. ET on FS2\/Fubo<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Mexico vs. Brazil, 8 p.m. ET on FS1\/Fubo<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Monday\u2019s WBC schedule<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>\n<p>Korea vs. Australia, 6 a.m. ET on FS1<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Dominican Republic vs. Israel, 12 p.m. ET on FS1<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Colombia vs. Panama, 12 p.m. ET on FS2<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Brazil vs. Great Britain, 1 p.m. ET on Tubi<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Cuba vs. Puerto Rico, 7 p.m. ET on FS1<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Venezuela vs. Nicaragua, 7 p.m. ET on FS2<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Mexico vs. United States, 8 p.m. ET on Fox<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Day 3 of the 2026 World Baseball Classic could see several teams fall into 0-3 holes to open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":641539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[62560,12575,57214,14505,141618,170,3693,38820,38460,1266,65806,8753,4712,62,67,132,68,16753,182121],"class_list":{"0":"post-641538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-austin-wells","9":"tag-colombia","10":"tag-cuba","11":"tag-dominican-republic","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-japan","14":"tag-juan-soto","15":"tag-junior-caminero","16":"tag-masataka-yoshida","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-nicaragua","19":"tag-seiya-suzuki","20":"tag-shohei-ohtani","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr","26":"tag-world-baseball-classic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}