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Meanwhile, Korea takes an early lead over the Czech Republic

Game over, Venezuela wins! DR in trouble. Game against Puerto Rico is gonna be a must win game for them

5-1 Venezuela now

So while Saturday's games are still going, Sunday's games are going to start in a few hours. Nothing too interesting in Pool B. Korea will hope their disastrous tournament doesn't get worse against the Czech Republic. Japan and Australia face off for the top seed in the Pool. Final day in the Pool of Chaos (Pool A). Sunday is going to be a lot of fun. Here's the scenarios: Scenario 1: Taiwan beats Cuba, Netherlands beats Italy: Taiwan finishes 1st. Netherlands finishes 2nd. Cuba is forced to requalify for the 2026 tournament. Scenario 2: Cuba beats Taiwan, Netherlands beats Italy: Netherlands finishes 1st. Cuba, Panama and Taiwan are tied at 2-2. Cuba would finish 2nd based on the head-to-head tie-breaker. Italy is forced to requalify. Scenario 3: Taiwan beats Cuba, Italy beats Netherlands: Taiwan finishes 1st. Italy, Netherlands, and Panama are tied at 2-2. Since they would all have a head-to-head record of 1-1 against each other, the next tie breaker is used which is runs allowed per innings defended. Cuba is forced to requalify. Scenario 4: Cuba beats Taiwan, Italy beats Netherlands: All 5 teams finish at 2-2. Runs allowed per innings defended would be used. Right now, here's the runs allowed stats. Netherlands: 0.444 Cuba: 0.538 Panama: 0.600 Italy: 0.615 Taiwan: 0.889

Back and forth we go. Tied at 4 now in the 8th inning

Randy Arozarena with a homerun for Mexico and the stadium goes wild! All tied up at 3

And just like that, it's 3-1 Colombia now

Julio Urias cruising through 3 innings and showing why he's one of the best pitchers in the tournament Crismatt doing great as well

Huge matchup to begin Pool C. On paper, Colombia vs. Mexico could decide who gets 2nd place

Game over! Taiwan beats the Kingdom of the Netherlands 9-5 and the chaos in Pool A continues. See everyone in just over two hours for the first game in the US.

Very respectable effort by the Czechs today despite the score

Very emotional day for the Japanese starter, Roki Sasaki today.

Yu Chang!!! My hero!

and now Japan has woken up while the Dutch take an early lead against Taiwan

holy smokes, what a performance by the Czech team so far!

And that leads to nothing. Panama wins 2-0 and stays alive for now! Pool A is in complete chaos

Italy has something going in the 9th inning!

So if Australia beat China by mercy rule and Japan didn't, that should mean that Australia should beat Japan, right?

Panama doubles the lead. 2-0 now. Italy's chances of advancing slowly dwindling

Dominic Fletcher with a great catch and saves a run for Italy! As a Taiwanese supporter, I am hoping Italy wins this game

One of the great things about international sports tournaments is that it brings people of various countries and cultures together. Here's a few home run calls from yesterday in other languages. Kungkuan Giljegiljaw Yang Euiji Kensuke Kondoh Martin Musik https://old.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/11np67t/czech_commentators_call_of_martin_muziks_goahead/

They're lucky they got an automatic qualification spot for this edition due to the expansion to 20 teams. I honestly would rather see a team like Brazil or Germany than China at the next edition

Scary moment in the Panama and Italy game. 3rd base umpire gets jor in the back of the head by a ball but seems to be okay

Jose Ramos puts Panama up 1-0

Panama vs. Italy coming up in a few minutes. Must win game for both teams