{"id":520896,"date":"2026-03-05T19:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520896\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T19:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:18:10","slug":"all-the-best-bench-celebrations-at-the-2026-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520896\/","title":{"rendered":"All the best bench celebrations at the 2026 World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s all the same star players you know, but with new teammates and new uniforms in the World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48036553\/pirates-paul-skenes-had-golden-motivation-team-usa-wbc\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r1620135_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the more interesting elements of the Classic are the faces in the dugouts &#8212; where traditional divisional rivals such as <a data-player-guid=\"e3e39e69-2861-f5b5-49be-b0880534c802\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33192\/aaron-judge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Judge<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"ec24d6f9-f841-3686-b7b4-a5b8ace0294c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/42507\/gunnar-henderson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gunnar Henderson<\/a> or <a data-player-guid=\"b4376163-318a-7510-fe79-bbb7ee9acf0d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41044\/julio-rodriguez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julio Rodriguez<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"7883628b-bd4f-c62e-015d-78c4c73ac3de\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32512\/ketel-marte\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ketel Marte<\/a> will suit up as teammates.<\/p>\n<p>New squads don&#8217;t necessarily mean a lack of chemistry, though, as evidenced by some of the great celebrations and handshakes that the 2026 Classic has provided. We&#8217;ll be following all the top bench moments throughout the event.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/_end_rule.png\" width=\"100%\"\/>Team Korea&#8217;s airplane celebration<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shay Whitcomb explains the origins of Team Korea&#8217;s airplane celly \ud83e\udd14<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldBaseballClassic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#WorldBaseballClassic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z8hzk1djXT\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/Z8hzk1djXT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nzz4Jli3pK\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/nzz4Jli3pK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 World Baseball Classic (@WBCBaseball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WBCBaseball\/status\/2029550580440449365?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 5, 2026<\/a><br \/>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all the same star players you know, but with new teammates and new uniforms in the World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-520896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}