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Team USA began its 2026 World Baseball Classic pool play by taking on Brazil on Friday night. The United States dominated its two tune-up exhibition games, while Brazil lost both of theirs, leading many to believe the game was going to be a blowout. 

While the final score shows that the U.S. won 15-5, the game was only 8-5 entering the ninth inning. Team USA batted around thanks to the wild pitching from Brazil and plated seven runs in the ninth inning to earn the 10-run win. 

Aaron Judge only had one hit in the win, but it was a big two-run home run in the first inning to put the U.S. up early. Brice Turang was productive out of the nine-hole with three hits and four RBI. Logan Webb pitched four innings, allowing one run and striking out five on his way to earning the win. 

Brazil didn’t have too many positives in the blowout loss. Lucas Ramirez, son of Manny Ramirez, had two home runs in the loss. 17-year-old high school pitcher Joseph Contreras got Aaron Judge to ground into an inning-ending double play with the bases loaded in the second inning. Otherwise, if Brazil has any hopes of making it out of pool play, they will have to calm down on the mound. It is hard to win a baseball game while issuing 17 walks. 

The Sporting News tracked scores, updates and highlights as Team USA began its 2026 World Baseball Classic schedule by taking on Brazil.

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Final score: United States 15, Brazil 5

Bottom of the 9th inning

11:41 p.m. — Mason Miller is on to end this one for Team USA. Bichette starts the inning with a walk, Brazil’s first of the game, compared to 17 for Team USA. Miller struck out Ito for the first out of the inning, and Rojo for the second. 

Mascai struck out to mercifully end the game. 

United States 15, Brazil 5

Top of the 9th inning

11:30 p.m. — Turang begins the inning with a single, and Brazil makes a pitching change. He swipes second, but Bobby Witt Jr. strikes out for the first out of the inning. Harper looped a single to right field, and Turang scores. Judge walked pushing Harper to second with only one out in the inning. Schwarber walked to load the bases. Bregman walks, and the U.S. scores another run. 

Brazil makes yet another pitching change, bringing in their second 17-year-old pitcher of the game. Raleigh walked, and another run scored for Team USA. Anthony hit a single to right field, plating one. 

Crow-Armstrong walked, and another run scored, and the U.S. has batted around. The Brazil pitcher was called for a balk in a 3-0 count and another run comes in. Turang grounded out to shortstop, but another run scored. 

Witt flew out to right-center and the seventh-run ninth inning finally comes to a close. 

United States 8, Brazil 5

Bottom of the 8th inning

11:00 p.m. — Southpaw Gabe Speier comes on to pitch for Team USA. He starts his outing by striking out Maciel. Ramirez hit his second home run of the game, this time in a lefty-lefty matchup. The run that the United States picked up in the top half of the inning, got negated pretty quickly. 

RAMIREZ DOES IT AGAIN!!! pic.twitter.com/rMjVLSSl2A

— Daikin Park (@DaikinPark) March 7, 2026

Speier rebounded by striking out Carvalho. Reginnato lined out to shortstop, and Witt leaped in the air to end the inning. 

United States 8, Brazil 4

Top of the 8th inning: 

10:52 p.m. — Judge opened the eighth inning with a four-pitch walk. Schwarber flew out to left-center for the first out. Bregman got hit in the hip and Brazil changes pitchers. 

Raleigh popped out to right field for the second out of the inning. Anthony singled to right field, and Judge came around to score. Crow-Armstrong grounded out to first to end the inning, but Team USA did get one back. 

United States 7, Brazil 4

Bottom of the 7th inning: 

10:38 p.m.  — Reginnato singled to left field. Bichette flied out to left for the first out of the inning. Ito barely hit a ball in front of the catcher, and while Raleigh threw it low, Harper dug it out for his second impressive defensive play of the night. 

Rojo singles to center, and Reginatto came around to score for Brazil’s first run of the game. Wacha fell behind Macai, and he made him pay for it, driving a home run to left center field. 

Brazil with a 2-run homer! pic.twitter.com/N1VK4s5YgT

— Daikin Park (@DaikinPark) March 7, 2026

Carmo lined out to third to end the inning. 

Top of the 7th inning: 

10:24 p.m. — Turang flied out to first to begin the inning, and Witt nearly sent a ball over the right field fence, but it died on the warning track. Harper flew out to left, and Team USA goes down in order. 

Bottom of the 6th inning:

10:18 p.m. — Brazil finally got another base runner as Carmo singled to center. Maicel struck out swinging for the first out of the inning. Ramirez popped out to Witt at shortstop, but Carmo was cheating a little too much to second, so Witt tried to double him up. He ended up hitting Carmo and the ball kicked off of him and went toward the dugout, allowing Carmo to make it safely to second. 

No harm came from the error as Carvalho struck out swinging. 

Top of the 6th inning: 

10:11 p.m. — Schwarber walked and Bregman walked. With two on and no out, Raleigh flew out to center, Anthony flew out to center, and Crow-Armstrong grounded out to first. 

Bottom of the 5th inning: 

10:01 p.m. — Pete Crow-Armstrong took over for Buxton on defense after he was hit by a pitch. Michael Wacha came out of the pen, ending Webb’s great outing. Wacha kept it going, but striking out Ito, Rojo and Mascai as Team Brazil hasn’t had a base runner since the first batter of the bottom of the first. 

Top of the 5th inning: 

USA 7, Brazil 1

9:50 p.m. — The United States finally made Brazil pay for its wild pitching. After Schwarber grounded out to second, Bregman, Raleigh and Anthony all walked. Buxton got hit by a pitch which plated a run. Turang then cleared the bases with a double.

Brice delivers with the bases loaded 🫡 pic.twitter.com/yzaKVvtHtv

— USA Baseball (@USABaseball) March 7, 2026

After Witt walked, Harper popped out to short and Judge flied out to second to end the inning. 

Bottom of the 4th inning: 

9:33 p.m. — Webb continued his dominate outing, making Brazil go 1, 2, 3 in response. Carvalho struck out swinging, Reginatto lined out to shortstop and Bichette struck out swining. 

Top of the 4th inning: 

9:25 p.m. — Team USA had a quick 1, 2, 3 inning. Witt grounded out to third, Harper flied out to left, and Judge flied out deep to center. 

End of the 3rd inning: USA 3, Brazil 1

Bottom of the 3rd inning

9:15 p.m. — Carmo grounded the second pitch of the inning back to Webb for the first out. Maciel struck out looking. Ramirez struck out to end the inning on a pitch clock violation that ended up being the third strike for him. 

Top of the 3rd inning

USA 3, Brazil 1

9:08 p.m. — Schwarber began the third with his second single of the night. He was moved to third by Bregman grounding out. Raleigh walked, and Schwarber scored on a wild pitch from Contreras, which saw the end of his night. 

Tiago de Silva took the mound for Brazil. He walked Anthony, but got Buxton to ground out to first in a fielder’s choice. After Buxton stole second, Turang lined to left field. 

Bottom of the 2nd inning

8:54 p.m. — Ito starts the bottom of the second, grounding out to first. Rojo grounded out to shortstop, and Bryce Harper dug out a low throw from Witt after the shortstop bobbled the initial grounder. Webb got Mascai to strike out for the quick 1, 2, 3 inning. 

Top of the 2nd inning

8:47 p.m. — 17-year-old Joseph Contreras is brought in out of the pen and throws 97 mph out of the gate. He is still in high school in Georgia, and is the son of former MLB player Jose Contreras. 

Buxton began the inning by lining out to right field. Brice Turang doubled off the left field wall. Witt walked in his second at-bat. Harper worked a full count, and drew a walk, loading the bases for Judge. 

Contreras got the Yankees slugger to ground into a double play to end the inning. 

End of the first inning: USA 2, Brazil 1

Bottom of the 1st inning

8:36 p.m.  — Osvaldo Carvalho hit a pitch deep to left, but it died at the track for a loud out, the first of the inning. Leonardo Reginatto grounded out to second for the second out of the inning. Dante Bichette Jr., green hair and all, worked a full count, but went down looking on a sinker that looked outside, but cut back enough to catch the zone for a strikeout. 

USA 2, Brazil 1

8:30 p.m. — Logan Webb only got two pitches in before Lucas Ramirez, son of Manny Ramirez, took the starting pitcher deep to right field for a home run. 

Lucas Ramirez takes Logan Webb DEEP in the 1st… #WBC2026 pic.twitter.com/s04p4j9KA5

— SFG Network (@sfgnetwork25) March 7, 2026

Top of the 1st inning

8:27 p.m. — After Judge’s home run, Kyle Schwarber singled to center. Alex Bregman worked a full count and then drew a walk. Cal Raleigh grounded out to the pitcher, who threw it to first for the second out of the inning. Schwarber moved up to third and Bregman advanced to second base. 

Roman Anthony grounded out to first to end the inning. Takahashi had to throw 36 pitches in the first. 

USA 2, Brazil 0

8:18 p.m. — Witt hit a ball that barely bounced over the pitcher, and he used his speed to beat out a single to begin the game. Harper worked a full count, but struck out. On the strikeout pitch, Witt swiped second. With first base open, Takahashi worked around Judge and got into a 3-0 count. He hung a breaking ball, and Judge made him pay for it, blasting a two-run home run into left-center. 

ALL RISE! pic.twitter.com/mzOYLOiWLQ

— USA Baseball (@USABaseball) March 7, 2026

Pre-Game

8:10 p.m. — It is game time and Team USA will bat first. 

7:58 p.m. — It will be interesting to see how long Webb pitches. With the starters still working up to their regular-season workloads, don’t be shocked if they only pitch a handful of innings before the bullpen gets active. 

7:38 p.m. — We are about 20 minutes away from first pitch. In the U.S., the game will air on Fox. 

6:49 p.m. — The United States and Brazil have matched up seven times at the professional level since 1999. Team USA has won all seven. 

6:09 p.m. — Here is how Brazil will line up behind Takahashi.

Here’s how USA and Brazil will line up against one another tonight pic.twitter.com/P0a5M2Vu8u

— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) March 6, 2026

5:42 p.m. — The USA will start Giants ace Logan Webb. Last year, he went 15-11 with a 3.22 ERA and 224 strikeouts. His high punch-out total ranked as the third-most in the MLB for the 2025 season.

Brazil will counter with Bo Takahashi. He is a right-hander who spent the 2025 season in the Japanese Professional League. Over 23 games, he amassed a 2-5 record with a 3.66 ERA with 38 strikeouts over 64 innings. 

4:42 p.m. — Here is how Team USA will lineup for the WBC opener against Brazil with Logan Webb on the bump. 

— USA Baseball (@USABaseball) March 6, 2026

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USA vs. Brazil start time

• Date: Friday, March 6
• Start time: 8 p.m. ET

The United States’ first official game for the 2026 World Baseball Classic will be held on Friday, March 6th and first pitch is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET. 

The game will be held at Daikin Park in Houston, Texas, which is normally home to the Houston Astros. 

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What channel is USA vs. Brazil on?

• TV channel: Fox 
• Live stream: Fubo

The USA will begin its World Baseball Classic schedule, taking on Brazil in its first game, and it will air on Fox. 

Cord-cutters can stream the game with Fubo, which carries Fox in its channel lineup and is currently offering a free trial.

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