2022 Little League Thread of Dominance

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

I had to miss the game, but Hawaii beat Arizona 9-2 and will be in Williamsport next week.

[LTtxfan 49973]

15 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

I had to miss the game, but Hawaii beat Arizona 9-2 and will be in Williamsport next week.

On 8/6/2022 at 11:25 PM, LTtxfan said:

Two good teams...  Hawaii won  3-0

Hawaii pitching was impressive,   16 K's between two pitchers in 6 innings.   

 

 

Hawaii has been one of the better teams I've seen especially the 2 pitchers used in their 1st game.  Their 3rd pitcher often overthrows his pitches too much which causes him to give up too many walks -- might be the biggest weakness that they have to overcome to keep advancing.

Not expecting Pearland (TxEast) to advance very far this year, but good luck to them !!

 

 

Edited August 13, 2022 by LTtxfan

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

Unfortunately, I've missed most of Hawaii's games save one against a Cali team where I caught an inning or so. Yes, they've got pitching depth it appears, but going off of memory--seems that is typically something they often have each year.

I wanted to catch the NY/NJ game but had a meeting.

Which region do you think has the strongest team this year?

[LTtxfan 49973]

32 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Unfortunately, I've missed most of Hawaii's games save one against a Cali team where I caught an inning or so. Yes, they've got pitching depth it appears, but going off of memory--seems that is typically something they often have each year.

I wanted to catch the NY/NJ game but had a meeting.

Which region do you think has the strongest team this year?

Unfortunately, I have missed a lot of games besides the Texas region so not a big help for yah other than Hawaii.

I think Tennessee might be pretty good too.

 

Edited August 13, 2022 by LTtxfan

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

Same here. I usually try and catch a lot of the regionals but have had to put it on the back burner. Am hoping to see some going into next weekend. Japan has a first round bye then plays on Friday (winner of Canada v Australia). I'm going to try and watch their game.

[LTtxfan 49973]

Softball...

Southwest Region: Midway Little League (Hewitt, Texas)

[torre 1298]

https://www.littleleague.org/world-series/2022/llbws/tournaments/world-series/

 

LLWS begins 12PM, Wed, ESPN.     Pearland plays Mid Atlantic (Pa), 6PM, Thursday.

[InkaUtexas 26859]

13 hours ago, torre said:

https://www.littleleague.org/world-series/2022/llbws/tournaments/world-series/

 

LLWS begins 12PM, Wed, ESPN.     Pearland plays Mid Atlantic (Pa), 6PM, Thursday.

And I have the popcorn ready. Moved a desk closer to the TV so I can watch and work. I love this tournament! 

 

 

[wood 11763]

I really like this Curacao team. The Rijke kid has icewater in his veins. He's an assassin.

[torre 1298]

41 minutes ago, wood said:

I really like this Curacao team. The Rijke kid has icewater in his veins. He's an assassin.

Very advanced pitcher for his age.   MLB scouts likely already have him on their board.    🙂

[InkaUtexas 26859]

Here we go! Day two! 

[Greg Davis Apologist 214]

I watched the Hawaiians a few times last week and again last night. No one will stop them on the American side. Chinese Taipei is about to score 30 on the Italians.

[Huckleberry 34560]

Taiwan 2-0 over Italy. Didn't see any of it, did Italy have a stud expat arm? 

[FigurelliPwC 115]

6 hours ago, Greg Davis Apologist said:

I watched the Hawaiians a few times last week and again last night. No one will stop them on the American side. Chinese Taipei is about to score 30 on the Italians.

2…..30.  Same result.

[Greg Davis Apologist 214]

Taiwan 2-0 over Italy. Didn't see any of it, did Italy have a stud expat arm? 

I started watching but it had a few delays. Italy threw a few different pitchers but none of them were special. Taiwan left a lot of runners on base but Curaçao and the two teams playing now would probably take them. This isn’t your father’s Taipei team.

[LTtxfan 49973]

TxEast (Pearland) down 2-0 after 1 inning.

Currently on ESPN2

[LTtxfan 49973]

7 hours ago, Greg Davis Apologist said:

I watched the Hawaiians a few times last week and again last night. No one will stop them on the American side. Chinese Taipei is about to score 30 on the Italians.

They are good, but Hawaii's 3rd pitcher sometimes has control issues and gives up too many walks.  Definitely one of the top American teams...

As I posted earlier, the Texas team is not nearly as strong as past teams from their region.

[LTtxfan 49973]

TxEast (Pearland) scores 2 runs in top of the 3rd inning...   now tied 2-2

[Lat22 4082]

He wasn’t tagged, but he shouldn’t have been on base to begin with.

[LTtxfan 49973]

1 minute ago, Lat22 said:

He wasn’t tagged, but he shouldn’t have been on base to begin with.

Yeah, when he stepped back behind the batter's box while catcher was attempting tag he was then "out of the baseline" and ruled out at home...

[Greg Davis Apologist 214]

I forgot we haven’t seen Japan yet. They play Canada tomorrow at 4

Mexico just finished off Puerto Rico. They looked salty.

[The Ace of Aces 5376]

We drove up to watch (it’s about an hour away) but the traffic was chaos so turned around. I’ll catch the next Pearland game. 

Edited August 19, 2022 by The Ace of Aces

[LTtxfan 49973]

Relief pitcher for PA isn't fooling the Texas hitters.

TxEast takes lead in the top of 5th scoring 5 runs and still only 1 out.

7-2

[kingkoopa6 8636]

18 a big boy. Dang 

[LTtxfan 49973]

TxEast beats PA  8-3

Next opponent is winner Hawaii/New York

(Yikes !!!)

 

Edited August 19, 2022 by LTtxfan

[torre 1298]

Pearland 2B is the real deal.   Looks like Tulo fielding the ball.

Pearland will play the winner of NY/Hawaii Monday at 6PM.

 

[Steamboat1874 4319]

This is such a great event including the regionals prior to the series.

Most of the games have been fairly close and the quality of play has been outstanding.

[WBT 20963]

Canada is hanging tough with Japan

[WBT 20963]

And Canada breaks it open with 5 in the top of the 6th.  It had been a scoreless game.

[Huckleberry 34560]

Canada up 5-0. 5 runs in the top of the 6th with one out. Bunt execution, a hard double, another double knocks in 3.

Would be great to see new international regions start stepping up. 

[Helobious 9814]

Pulling for the Matamoros kids, hope they go far. Haven’t been following the tourney much, they added too many damn teams. But it does give more kids a chance to experience it which is really all that matters.

[Greg Davis Apologist 214]

Good try good effort, New York

[Greg Davis Apologist 214]

Little League Vicente Padilla is mowing the Puerto Ricans down

[torre 1298]

Early games today.    Red Sox and Orioles visit and later play at a minor league field in Williamsport, 6PM, ESPN.

Always great to see the interaction between the Little Leaguers and MLB players.    America, baby !

 

 

 

 

 

[Tylerocks 2603]

@torre Came to post the same thing.

Love it.  Looks like some of the MLB players are having just as much fun as the kids.

[Greg Davis Apologist 214]

I knew it was just a matter of time before one of the big guys took out a kid on the hill

[MAROON 446]

Junior league World Series on ESPN2 now.  Corpus vs Taipei 

[Huckleberry 34560]

25 minutes ago, MAROON said:

Junior league World Series on ESPN2 now.  Corpus vs Taipei 

Both ESPN2 and ESPN Plus are showing the Nicaragua / Japan game from Williamsport even though the listing says Junior League Final. Is there a rain delay in Taylor, MI or something?

[Nueces River Rat 5794]

1 hour ago, MAROON said:

Junior league World Series on ESPN2 now.  Corpus vs Taipei 

Corpus team is from my Hood. Neighbors kid is on the team.   Hit a three run shot in the first game. 

[Horn80 6353]

Huge mistake #18 on Ohio team

[Huckleberry 34560]

3 hours ago, Horn80 said:

Huge mistake #18 on Ohio team

Ohio? You're watching a replay of a previous year.

[Horn80 6353]

50 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

Ohio? You're watching a replay of a previous year.

Good grief.  That means that poor kid had to relive his huge mistake.  

[Huckleberry 34560]

Holy crap Japan went 0-2. Lost to Nicaragua in 11 innings today. 

[Rockethorn1978 6205]

Weird bracket play. Southwest plays one game and waits till the west team plays two before they play again? Am I missing a game? Why the long delay between games?

[Huckleberry 34560]

9 minutes ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

Weird bracket play. Southwest plays one game and waits till the west team plays two before they play again? Am I missing a game? Why the long delay between games?

It's because they expanded to 20 teams so you have two 10 team double elimination brackets (except a single guaranteed championship game in both brackets for TV). That means 6 teams in each half get a bye but 4 have to play an extra game.

[Helobious 9814]

Can’t remember Japan ever going 0-2 before. Is David Pierce their manager? 

[Bevo&Pevo 5515]

^^ Ouch.

[Rockethorn1978 6205]

I miss the days where it was the Far East logo on the uniforms. 
 

is Chinese tapei any good? Japan probably brought their b team over.

[Greg Davis Apologist 214]

Holy crap Japan went 0-2. Lost to Nicaragua in 11 innings today. 

That was a fantastic game. Other than Hawaii and Texas games, I’ve enjoyed the international games much more than the American games.

*Tennessee/Indiana have a good one going now though

[Bevo&Pevo 5515]

56 minutes ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

I miss the days where it was the Far East logo on the uniforms. 
 

is Chinese tapei any good? Japan probably brought their b team over.

They just wrapped up a win over Panama. 7-0