>>157409870
nonce

But why

Wednesday, Aug. 19 (Game 1-4):

Latin America (Nicaragua) vs. Caribbean (Dominican republic) (1 p.m., ESPN)

Southeast (Alabama) vs. Northwest (Washington) (3 p.m., ESPN)

Canada (Vancouver) vs. Asia-Pacific (south korea) (5 p.m., ESPN)

Metro (new jersey) vs. New England (Massachusetts) (7 p.m., ESPN)

>>157409895
Funnily enough, it’s one of our only “world championships” that’s actually a world championship.

how do you watch this without being a weirdo?

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>>157409909
Shit forgot to crop. bracket

>>157409957
By not being gay

So the 12 batter lineups are new this year?

>>157410205
Just googled it. Apparently it's been a thing since 2023.

I Hate the fact they miss game play just to play more ads.

Damn, Nicaragua's pitcher is good. 5 k's already.

>>157410576
Too bad his wrist will be wrecked when he gets older from throwing these curveballs at a young age.

>>157410635
Lol, hopefully the pitch limit stops that from happening. But can easily see a middle school or high school coach abusing it. Hopefully that doesn't happen either.

Kino final out at the plate to win the game.

>>157409966
Are the brackets random?

>>157409966
Why can’t they ever be up front with exactly which team is which instead of these fuzzy geographic regions. Enough with "Metro" or "Europe-Africa", just give us the state or country.

>alabama girl is 5'7"
/sp/, how do we recover?

>>157411077
>girl
Best player on the field

>>157411077
she's a big chungus

little league field dimensions are way too small, should be 50/70 at least. 46/60 is nuts.
WBSC uses 51/75 for u12

>>157411077
>she doesn't dye her hair when the rest the team did
Wholesome

>>157411032
I actually don't know i cant find any thing.

>>157411037
They do during they game but not on the bracket. I heard it's too "discourage nationalism." Because some countries (mostly taiwan. Went crazy with it in the 90's like starting fights and chanting racial slurs. Over little league.

>>157411320
Tbh I like the dimensions as they are. Part of what I like about little league is that it's not super competitive. It part of the charm.

bold decision to make all the uniforms look like dogshit this year

>>157411320
think a part of this is that runners can't take a lead off the bag until the ball is put in play

>>157411599
They get worse ever year. I started to notice this like 3 years ago. It's like they're more focused on getting some sort of graphic design instead of making an actually good looking sleek jersey.

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>a girl

>>157411697
She's the tallest player on the team

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>>157411697
>5 scoreless innings pitched and the team's only hit at the plate

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>>157409876
>>157409895
>>157409957

The Mariners ineptitude falls far from Seattle

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>bunting with two strikes

Free baseball!

>manfred rules are applied in extras in little league
Gay

>Penix City
kek

Dang, that girl's a good infielder too

>have girl on team
>lose

the girl was absolutely carrying that shit team

>>157412180
Dude it’s just like Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch!

>baserunning shenanigans
sneaky little asians

>hongcouver-worst korea

I really want to see a japan-south korea game. It's been so long since a Korean team was here. I keep saying they should replace Australia's guaranteed spot with taiwan so we can get more Asia pacific teams.

HOME RUN SOUTH KOREA

>>157412310
Taiwan should have been permanently banned from little league eligibility for being the shittiest baseball "country" in the world. They fake birth certificates to lie about player ages when they aren't just giving PEDs to actual twelve year olds. Dirty play on and off the field. All for a children's game being played by children.

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What an odd song for a Korean child in 2026 to have as there favorite. Not judging, just saying.

I knew this would be a stomp by Korea.

>>157412490
They did get banned for a couple years in the 90's. I think they've cleaned up there act since then. But yeah, that was extremely pathetic. Like they should still feel embarrassed about that shit. I know i would.

where can I watch

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This nigga was 17 years old

>>157412603
So he's 34 years old now?

>>157412575
https://tflix.su/watch/espn-1-us/

Here's how I'm watching. Be warned that you should definitely have some anti-virus stuff installed before you used this website. I don't trust it.

>>157412610
No idea

Switching to Koshien, hopefully the thread stays alive in the mean time.

>>157413025
Threads don't die on /sp/. There are three /mlb/ generals that are active, and the /cfb/ thread made 9 days ago is still active.

Since the New Jersey team is from Bayonne, is this game pretty much a game between Red Sox and Yankees fans?

Yokohama crumbling

>>157413063
Yankees win
/mlb/ loses

>>157412310
If anything I'm surprised Eur-Afr gets a spot. The Latin and Caribbean qualifyers must be tough to get out of too.

Shit, all the games got canceled today. Well hopefully the "karma" gained from this keeps the rest of the games from being delayed for canceled.

>>157419265
Lol. I don't mind euro-africa getting a spot despite them not being competitive because of just how absurdly large their region is, they gotta get something. But yeah, probably even some of the the worst teams from the Caribbean and Latin American regionals are better than the euro-africa champions.

>>157421913
I was thinking more about the guaranteed slot. Seems more logical that Canada should have that spot. I see it's the Czech though so that's neat.

Show me some Oneesans of the Japan players

I'm gonna take a wild guess here and assume that we're all watching the japan game? It's the same japan team from last year and has some returning players. Although the California and the iowa pitchers were both. On the national team. So that could be good.

>>157414039
I think they want everyone to be represented to some capacity. Plus Europe could be a good market for this but idk.

When I was a kid I used to watch this shit on ESPN and curse at my luck for being born in this hellhole

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anyone remember Ed Howard, shortstop on the Chicago little league team that made headlines over a decade ago. Dude got drafted by the Cubs a few years ago and I was pretty excited but he cannot hit a lick, he's always just been an absolutely elite fielder, even back in the LLWS that was obvious. I don't understand how he is still kicking in the minors, he routinely runs a 40% K rate and bats like .150 with zero power. The guy is obviously a great athlete probably should have played literally any other sport besides baseball.

Damn, Japan's pitcher was pretty fast but curcao's hitting is great. curcao's pitcher is good to. It's crazy that a country of 150,000 is beating a country of 120 million where baseball is by far the most popular sport.

Although that begs the question how the fuck are the teams decided. They it's based on the amount of little league's in a region. But there's no way curcao a country of abou 150,000 has anywhere near the amount of team as say taiwan. A country of 30 million where the most popular sport by far is baseball.

Also Iowa's pitcher has faced 6 batters and struck out 5 of them.

>>157429900
I watched this as a kid too. Was it hard to join a team in Venezuela back then? Aren't you guys a big baseball country?

>>157429978
That sucks. I feel like it's been a while since a kid from the llws has made it to the majors. Theirs alot of really hyped up kids this year so let's hope one of them makes it.

>>157430028
The poster is from Columbia>>157429900

>>157430028
decent chance any year that they're in the LLWS that someone on the Curacao team will be in the big leagues one day. They were just talking about Ceddanne Rafaela being one

>>157429978
His team cheated by getting players outside of the boundary for Jackie Robinson West.

>>157430028
>Venezuela
Even if I were from Venezuela or played Baseball and moved to Venezuela for baseball (which I never played officially) it was very unlikely to experience a little world series.
If I was from Japan or USA, Canada, Mexico, was probably hard as well but at least there is a path to make it there

>>157430028
>https://www.littleleague.org/who-we-are/alumni/major-leaguers-played-llbws/
looks like there's a bunch, including at least 4 who debuted in MLB this year
And the broadcast was mentioning that Curacao has just 3 little leagues, and one of them sucks. so now that they have a guaranteed spot as of this year it's basically just between "Pabao Little League" and "Pariba Little League".
Though I doubt Taiwan or Korea have that many little leagues either, at least not compared to USA even per capita, maybe Taiwan does since Little League was such a cultural institution for them for such a long time. But they still probably have their own organizations for youth sports I would assume, plus I don't think they do nearly as much organized youth sports in the first place.

> California vs Iowa game actually looking better than Japan vs curacao.

Wasn't expecting that but then again both of the pitchers were on the 12u usa team. Japan getting stomped.

>>157430039
>>157430067
> confusing Colombia for Venezuela

God damn it.

>>157430050
Here's hoping. I'll be rooting for them.

>>157430167
You know I probably should have googled it instead of just going based on what I've personally heard lol.

>Curacao has just 3 little leagues

>Though I doubt Taiwan or Korea have that many little leagues

They have more than 3 I'll tell you that. So what is the metric exactly?

>California pitcher has 13 k's and a homerun

I chose the wrong day to be a weeb.

>>157430332
>*iowa pitcher

God damn it what's wrong with me today

>can't even get the complete game
kek what a bum

that might have been a strike if the catcher caught it, wasn't that far inside

curacao reliever throwing gas
>favorite athlete: lionel messi
reeeee fuck off soccer

wew, generous call but it's always a wide zone in little league

>Japan doesn't have players as base coaches

Japan has fallen

Also dang it, I'm gonna have to miss another new jersey game.

the battle of central america
also why does costa rica not play baseball when their two neighbors do

Anyone got a stream? Mine:>>157412610
Isn't working right now.

>>157431492
in countries like guatemala, hondouras, and cuba american companies ran fruit plantations and built baseball fields for the workers, while costa rica had their sporting culture heavily influenced by europeans

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p-dough thread

>>157431573
Guatemala and Honduras don't really play baseball either
It's just Nicaragua and Panama in Central America, the two that sandwich Costa Rica

>>157431590
None of us are gay here

>>157431607
yea so two countries the usa has decades of direct intervention with while costa rica was barely touched.

>>157431701
ok now explain Haiti vs the DR. USA was as involved in Haiti as anywhere.
The caribbean coast of Colombia plays baseball too, USA wasn't that involved there, they play because their neighbors do, same with Curacao. Costa Rica just missed the memo, or they're just gay or something.

Anyone got a stream mine crashed

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>>157431922
yeah I got a stream for ya alright

love it when a little fella whose bat gets pushed back by the pitch still hits one over the drawn in outfield

Panama just falling apart lmao. these umpires are terrible though

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My predictions for korea vs czech

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>mariners fans defeated astros fans

Wait what channel is the game on? Did ot get canceled?

>>157433367
they're all on the espns, no game right now, next ones start in half an hour

>>157433367
Yesterday's games were postponed and played earlier today.

>>157409966
>image of a bracket is AIed to shit
how? why?

> 9 strikes, 10 pitches

So close. But still crazy impressive, especially sor little league. The pitching this year is crazy.

anyone here watching Koshien too?

>>157433889
Damn. I guess it was just a good inning.

>>157434156
Me. I'm first appearance bro. Otherwise known as tenri-Chad

>>157434156
if it's baseball I'm watching (unless it's women's baseball lmao)

Holy shit I just checked the korea czech game. Czech is actually putting up a fight. Top 4th only 1-0. I thought they were gonna get mercy'd.

>>157434642
I wonder if their recent WBC appearances made it a little more popular

>>157434642
They've been able to hold up defensively the last few years but just can't hit to save their lives.

I remember watching the 2011 LLWS with /sp/. I had some gifs of those kids saved on my old pc. mfers are like in the mid 20s now.

>>157409957
Stop touching your dick, faggot.

>>157409876
that's /tennis/ though

Australia is the first to be eliminated. Do they make those Eliminated images of teams who are eliminated for the Little League World Series?

Massachusetts eliminated. Just like the stupid Red Sox.

half the japanese kids are like 4 feet tall

now I'm hungry

>catcher set up literally outside of the outside batters box
bold strategy

>japan still doing the six seven thing

Damn, I didn't realize Japan had such big hitters. And I missed the first 3 runs.

That Japanese kid should have just run around the home plate umpire to avoid the tag while he was at it.

>>157437511
>I had some gifs of those kids saved on my old pc

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>>157449170
NTA, but I still have Kiko Garcia rockin' it out for a reaction gif

Was I the only one expecting dr to win? I did not expect this

>>157449380
the Latin American teams are usually pretty mediocre. Australia and Europe are always the worst. Canada is mediocre. Japan and Asia-Pacific (Korea or Taiwan) are usually the best, and Curacao.

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>girl on a LLWS team

>>157449559
Idk. I feel like japan hasn't been "bringing it" these past few years like the used to. Like after covid something changed. But maybe I'm just underestimating Curacao and let that 6-0 lose skew my view to much.

>>157450031
>Almost hits home run

>>157450031
She's the tallest player on the Alabama team, and she didn't dye her hair when her teammates did.

Didn't expect to see a team from California to go 0-2. Surprised to see all the sunbelt teams in the losers bracket.