José-Andrés Paula singled home the winning run with two outs in the ninth as the International Globetrotters rallied past Czechia 4-3 for their first Honkbalweek Haarlem win.
Chinese Taipei squeezed home the winning run in the 10th to beat Curaçao 3-2 in the tiebreaker, opening Honkbalweek Haarlem 2026 unbeaten.
Germany faces Côte d’Ivoire in Toronto for Group E’s top spot. How to watch — and the surprising baseball nation hiding in the Mannschaft.
Five of the six teams at Honkbalweek Haarlem 2026 are nations. The sixth has no flag. The International Globetrotters are a barnstorming all-star team of overseas pros assembled by Baseball Jobs Overseas — four-time Finkstonball champions who played Team Italy and Team Czechia in Milan this year. Meet international baseball’s most fascinating roster-construction story.
Honkbal is the Dutch word for baseball — and Honkbalweek Haarlem is the tournament that hosted Paul Skenes, Dylan Crews, and Wyatt Langford in 2022, years before they were MLB names. Here’s what honkbal is, who’s playing in 2026 (including world No. 2 Chinese Taipei and MLB All-Star Jurickson Profar’s Curaçao), and the full schedule with U.S. times.
The USMNT faces Australia at Lumen Field Friday at 3 PM ET on FOX and Telemundo. Here’s how to watch, and where all 26 Americans come from — so you know who to root for.
The road to representing the United States on the international stage begins this summer, as…
Bryan Woo and Kyle Bradish duel for the series Thursday on ESPN, with wild card stakes taking shape 50 days from the deadline. How to watch.
