{"id":531060,"date":"2026-03-12T08:59:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/531060\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:59:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:59:32","slug":"quarterfinal-matchups-finalized-at-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/531060\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarterfinal matchups finalized at World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a three-day slate saw Canada, Italy and the Dominican Republic clinch the top seeds in their respective pools, the quarterfinals are set at the World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<p>Teams will get a day off to prepare on Thursday before the action resumes on Friday in Houston and Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Houston will play host to the top two teams from Pools A and B, and Miami will welcome the advancing squads from Pools C and D.<\/p>\n<p>The semifinals will go Sunday and Monday in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a list of the teams moving on and the schedule for the start of this WBC&#8217;s knockout round.<\/p>\n<p>All games can be seen on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Bo-Naylor-640x360.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Watch the World Baseball Classic on Sportsnet \"\/>Watch the World Baseball Classic on Sportsnet <\/p>\n<p>The World Baseball Classic is back for its sixth edition, running from March 5-17 in Miami, Houston, San Juan and Tokyo. Catch all the action on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Broadcast schedule <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pool winners and runners-up<\/p>\n<p>Pool A: Canada and Puerto Rico<br \/>Pool B: Italy and the United States<br \/>Pool C: Japan and Korea<br \/>Pool D: Dominican Republic and Venezuela<\/p>\n<p>Korea at Dominican Republic, 6:30 p.m. ET \/ 3:30 p.m. PT in Miami<br \/>United States at Canada, 8 p.m. ET \/ 5 p.m. PT in Houston<\/p>\n<p>Puerto Rico at Italy, 3 p.m. ET \/ Noon PT in Houston<br \/>Venezuela at Japan, 9 p.m. ET \/ 6 p.m. PT in Miami<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a three-day slate saw Canada, Italy and the Dominican Republic clinch the top seeds in their respective&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-531060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}