With regular season opening days set for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, March 25-27, Major League Baseball is basking in the WBC afterglow of an American national audience of 10.78 million that tuned in to watch Venezuela stun the U.S. 3-2 to win its first international title Tuesday night in Miami. Overall, it was the most-watched World Baseball Classic on record, easily doubling and tripling television viewership from the last time out in 2023. Each of its last three games featuring the U.S. were WBC record-setters for FOX south of the border, with the semifinal win over the Dominican Republic drawing 7.37 million Americans. Venezuela’s semifinal victory over the tournament darlings from Italy hit 3.8 million on FS1 and Fox Deportes in Spanish and was the most-watched WBC game not involving the U.S.