Ask any baseball fan in Puerto Rico and they’ll tell you about the 2006 World Baseball Classic game against Cuba. How they lost in a crushing 4-3 defeat to the international superpower. How it was the loudest they’d ever heard Hiram Bithorn Stadium.

Eight members of Cuba's delegation were denied visas to the United States for the World Baseball Classic, the Cuban Baseball and Softball Federation (FCBS) said Thursday. Cuba is set to play against Puerto Rico,

Their strong pitching, excellent hitting and tough defense got Puerto Rico to the WBC 2026 They’ll be facing a tough group in 2026 without some big names, but so far have played well under the direction of MLB legend Yadier Molina.

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The World Baseball Classic reaches a critical day with seven games that will go a long way in determining the teams that advance to the quarterfinals.

Day 3 of the 2026 World Baseball Classic could see several teams fall into 0-3 holes in pool play. Colombia, Great Britain, Nicaragua, Panama and Brazil go into Sunday having lost their first two games in the tournament.

Coming into the 2026 World Baseball Classic, there’d been so much talk of Cuba not having the kind of team, or the same historically strong footprint in the baseball world that they’d had for so many years.