#Shohei Ohtani

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Six Days Ago Nobody Cared. Now the Whole World Is Watching — The WBC Is Rewriting Baseball's Destiny in Real Time

78 MLB All-Stars under one roof, Ohtani's grand slam hit 16 million views in hours, and South Korea reached the quarterfinals for the first time in 17 years. The tournament everyone dismissed as irrelevant has seized global sports fans by the throat in just five days.

3/9/2026

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Baseball's "World Cup" Starts in Two Days. Why Does Most of the World Not Care?

Twenty nations, 47 games, 13 days. The tournament kicks off the day after tomorrow, yet half the planet doesn't even know it's happening. Here's a hard look at how close — or how far — the WBC has actually come to making baseball a global sport.

3/3/2026