Story byMarc LancasterWed, March 4, 2026 at 5:30 AM UTC·4 min readWorld Baseball Classic games on TV today: Full schedule, times, channels, live streams to watch 2026 WBC originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The World Baseball Classic is back for 2026, with 20 teams vying for glory around the globe. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe tournament opens Thursday night, Eastern time, with the opening games in Pool C. Australia and Chinese Taipei lead things off from Tokyo, with Korea and Czechia to follow a few hours later on Friday morning in the U. S. Australia was one of the feel-good stories of the 2023 WBC, beating Korea in its opener and making it out of pool play for the first time in the fifth edition of the tournament.