Stiff and Serious: Team USA Defeats the Dominican Republic 2-1, Advancing to the WBC Final

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 16 March 2026

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Team USA wins a tight World Baseball Classic semifinal 2-1 over the Dominican Republic. Buster Olney and Dave Schoenfield link up following the game to discuss the bad strike call that ended the game, Team USA's outstanding bullpen, the Dominican Republic's missed opportunities, Junior Caminero hitting another bomb, Julio Rodriguez and Aaron Judge making outrageous defensive plays, Red Sox fans salivating over Roman Anthony, USA manager Mark DeRosa making the right move starting Gunner Henderson, and whether Italy or Venezuela has a better shot against the Americans in the WBC final on Tuesday. 0:00 Dave Schoenfield & Buster recap USA-DOM 24:19 New York Yankees preview 25:44 New York Mets preview 26:57 Bleacher Tweets CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: BleacherTweets@gmail.com REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS Follow The Baseball Tonight Podcast on… YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHeL6O-A-ASmSMwbSCFvPKEq1Cslo_lrw Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5FG6xCcd338SgZjZ9urHRI Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-tonight-with-buster-olney/id137699414 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.3	March 16th, 2006, and today will be better than yesterday.
0:39.8	I'm Buster Only. Taylor Shrinke is producing from back in Connecticut, and Taylor, we're
0:44.3	taping this right after the WC, a WBC semifinal between the Dominican Republic and USA late on
0:52.4	Sunday night. US wins this one, two to one.
0:55.6	Man, what a game.
0:57.5	Thrilling game, rapid reaction pod, Buster.
1:00.5	I love it.
1:00.9	We're doing it on video as well.
1:03.1	And we've got our pal Dave Schoenfield here with us, who was also excited, baseball
1:07.5	addict, and I knew he'd be up for the challenge.
1:10.3	Yeah, David Schoenfield joining us. And Dave, I mean, what a great semifinal this was.
1:16.4	And it did make me cringe that it ended the way that it did with Corey Blazer calling a
1:22.7	strike three, Geraldo Pardomo, the ball clearly a couple inches too low on a three-two pitch.
1:28.6	That was probably the biggest flaw in the whole thing.
1:33.8	No, it was such a fun game.
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