For the first time in the WBC, there will be a pitch clock. It will follow MLB rules: Pitchers will have 15 seconds to throw with the bases empty and 18 seconds when runners are on. Batters have until the eight-second mark to be ready to hit.

Auburn baseball is sticking with its successful pitching rotation of Marciano, Sanders, and Petrovic for the Winthrop series.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto left Spring Training to join Team Japan as their ace in the World Baseball Classic.

One of the World Baseball Classic's most storied rivalries and a handful of de facto win-or-go-home matchups highlight a wall-to-wall Day 2 of the burgeoning international hardball event on Saturday,

Team USA takes on Great Britain in Pool B play from Daikin Park in Houston as the World Baseball Classic continues on Saturday.