FOX Sports announced Friday that it is the exclusive broadcast home of the 2023 World Baseball Classic.
The fifth edition of the WBC presents a list of 47 matches that will be shown live on FOX, FS1, FS2, FOX Deportes and Tubi from March 7 to 21, 2023.
Twenty nations from around the world will compete in the two-week tournament, which begins with 40 pool play matches at four host venues: Tokyo Dome (Japan), Taichung Intercontinental Stadium Taipei Dome (Taiwan), Chase Field (Phoenix) and LoanDepot park (Miami).
Team USA, the winner of the previous WBC tournament in 2017, is in Pool C alongside Mexico, Colombia, Canada and Great Britain. Their games will be played in Phoenix. The defending champion’s opening pool play is March 11 and will air on FOX and FOX Deportes. The other three Team USA pool games (March 12, 13, 15) will be on FS1 and FOX Deportes.
The winners of Pool A and B will meet in the quarter-finals in Tokyo, while the champions of Pool C and D will meet in Miami. The semifinals and finals will also be held in Miami, with each of those games airing on FS1 and FOX Deportes.
Players committed to play for Team USA next spring include catchers J.T. Realmuto and Will Smith, infielders Pete Alonso, Paul Goldschmidt, Trevor Story, Tim Anderson and Nolan Arenado, outfielders Mookie Betts, Cedric Mullins, Mike Trout and Kyle Tucker, starting pitcher Merrill Kelly, and relievers David Bednar, Dillon Tate and Devin Williams.
Angels superstar Shohei Ohtani plans to play for Japan, which has won the first two WBC contests and finished third in the last two.
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