International

Kyle Glaser and JJ Cooper discuss a wide range of topics in the baseball world today.

Scioscia spoke with Baseball America about Team USA’s performance during the Summer Olympics, which young players impressed him most and more.

The international baseball world is mourning the passing of former USA Baseball Federation and International Baseball Federation president Robert “Ish” Smith.

It took bringing the Olympics coming to baseball-crazy Japan to get the sport re-entered into the Olympics after a two Olympics-long hiatus. And fittingly, baseball’s return was celebrated by Japan winning its long-desired first baseball gold medal.

Juan Francisco hit a tiebreaking two-run double as the Dominican Republic scored five runs in the eighth inning to rally past South Korea, 10-6, and win the bronze medal.

Here is the full schedule and scores for baseball at the Tokyo Olympics.

USA Baseball won the second most important game of the team’s Olympic history, knocking off South Korea, 7-2, to earn a shot at the gold medal on Saturday.

Tetsuto Yamada hit a bases-clearing double in the eighth inning to lift Japan to a 5-2 win over South Korea and into the gold medal game.

Scott Kazmir pitched five scoreless innings and Team USA held off the Dominican Republic, 3-1, to advance to the semifinals of the Tokyo Olympics.

Jose Bautista hit a walkoff RBI single in the ninth to give the Dominican Republic a 7-6 win over Israel in an elimination game at the Tokyo Olympics.

Team USA still has a path to a gold medal even after its loss to Japan. Here is what it needs to do to get to the gold-medal game.

Takuya Kai hit a walkoff RBI single in the bottom of the 10th as Japan rallied to beat Team USA and advance to the Olympics semifinals.

South Korea pounded out 18 hits and beat Israel, 11-1, to advance to the Olympics semifinals.

South Korea scored three runs in the bottom of the ninth to come from behind to beat the Dominican Republic, 4-3, in both team’s first game in the Olympics knockout round.

Danny Valencia hit a three-run homer and Israel batted around twice in a 12-5 rout of Mexico to win its first-ever Olympics game.

Tristan Casas’ two-run home run gave Team USA an early lead and a dominating performance by five U.S. pitchers led it to a 4-2 win over Korea in the final game of Olympics group play.

Tetsuto Yamada hit a three-run homer to break the game open and lead Japan to a 7-4 win over Mexico at the Olympics.

Team USA had little trouble in its first Olympics game since 2008. Strong pitching from Joe Ryan as well as a balanced lineup knocked off Israel, 8-1.

Angel Sanchez combined with four relievers on a four-hit shutout to lead the Dominican Republic to a 1-0 win over Mexico in the Olympics on Friday.