The 2023 World Baseball Classic is underway with Team USA attempting to secure one of the final quarterfinal spots in the field on Wednesday. Pool play wraps up with three crucial games on the schedule. Team USA can move on to the quarterfinals by beating Colombia in Phoenix. Both Canada-Mexico and Puerto Rico-Dominican Republic -- slated for earlier in the day -- are also win-and-advance scenarios. Five teams have punched their tickets to the quarterfinals so far (Japan, Cuba, Italy, Australia and Venezuela) and knockout round play kicked off Wednesday morning with Cuba ousting Australia.
Once the field is down to eight teams, it's a single-elimination bracket style tournament with the championship game set for Tuesday, March 21 in Miami.
Check out the scores, standings and more from the 2023 World Baseball Classic below.
2023 World Baseball Classic scores
Wednesday, March 15
Cuba 4, Australia 3 (quarterfinals)Venezuela 5, Israel 1Canada vs. Mexico, 3 p.m., FS2Dominican Republic vs. Puerto Rico, 7 p.m., FS1Colombia vs. United States, 10 p.m., FS1Tuesday, March 14
Venezuela 4, Nicaragua 1Canada 5, Colombia 0Dominican Republic 10, Israel 0 (F/7)Mexico 2, Great Britain 1Monday, March 13
Korea 22, China 2 (F/5)Dominican Republic 6, Nicaragua 1Great Britain 7, Colombia 5Puerto Rico 10, Israel 0 (F/8)United States 12, Canada 1 (F/7)Sunday, March 12
Japan 7, Australia 1Italy 7, Netherlands 1Israel 3, Nicaragua 1Canada 18, Great Britain 8 (F/7)Venezuela 9, Puerto Rico 6Mexico 11, United States 5Australia 8, Czech Republic 3Saturday, March 11
Japan 10, Czech Republic, 2Chinese Taipei 9, Netherlands 5Puerto Rico 9, Nicaragua 1Colombia 5, Mexico 4 (F/10)Venezuela 5, Dominican Republic 1United States 6, Great Britain 2Korea 7, Czech Republic 3Cuba 7, Chinese Taipei 1
Friday, March 10
Japan 13, Korea 4Chinese Taipei 11, Italy 7Australia 12, China, 2 (F/7)Panama 2, Italy 0Thursday, March 9
Japan 8, China 1Italy 6, Cuba 3 (F/10)Czech Republic 8, China 5 Cuba 13, Panama 4Wednesday, March 8
Panama 12, Chinese Taipei 5Australia 8, Korea 7Netherlands 3, Panama 1Tuesday, March 7
2023 World Baseball Classic standings
Pool A
Cuba (advances to quarterfinals)
2
2
Italy (advances to quarterfinals)
2
2
Netherlands
2
2
Panama
2
2
Chinese Taipei
2
2
Pool B
Japan (advances to quarterfinals)
4
0
Australia (advances to quarterfinals)
3
1
Korea
2
2
Czech Republic
1
3
China
0
4
Pool C
United States
2
1
Canada
2
1
Mexico
2
1
Colombia
1
2
Great Britain
1
3
Pool D
Venezuela (advances to quarterfinals)
4
0
Puerto Rico
2
1
Dominican Republic
2
1
Israel
1
3
Nicaragua
0
4
2023 World Baseball Classic bracket
Major League Baseball/World Baseball Classic2023 World Baseball Classic schedule
All games on Fox, FS1 and FS2 can be streamed on fuboTV (try for free).
(All times Eastern)
Thursday, March 16
Japan vs. Italy (quarterfinals), 6 a.m., FS2Friday, March 17
TBD vs. TBD (quarterfinals), 7 p.m., FS1Saturday, March 18
TBD vs. TBD (quarterfinals), 7 p.m., FoxSunday, March 19
Cuba vs. TBD (semifinals), 7 p.m., FS1Monday, March 20
TBD vs. TBD (semifinals), 7 p.m., FS1Tuesday, March 21
TBD vs. TBD (championship game), 7 p.m., FS1
