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torre

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Congrats to Needville for defeating Ascension Parish (Gonzales) La 5-3 to advance to Williamsport.     As Steamboat mentions above,  very well played game especially since Ascension had to play one extra game to advance to the finals.

 

LLWS will be from 16-27 August.

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3 hours ago, Wally Pryor said:

Along youth baseball / softball lines it seems like every year Hewitt is playing in the little league softball world series. 

What's in the water near Waco? Loaded question, perhaps. 

There's probably only like 8 teams in the organization 

 

3 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

Solid take. Taiwan hasn't won since 1996.

Point remains. LLWS is the conference USA of 12u baseball 

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Little league is pretty thin these days. It’s not just select but Texas teenage or whatever other orgs out there trying to pull leagues out. I don’t have much context for how it once was so maybe it was never that big. This was several years ago, but I had some involvement in a district tournament and one of the top players missed some time due to some travel ball. Then within the last two- three years, the best kid on one team bailed on his team’s championship round. I’d assume the successful teams are pretty dedicated to little league.

On the girls side, the path to the Southwest region seems to require going through fewer teams and in some age groups the teams are not good. But it seems last year Oklahoma or Colorado effectively got a bye on the boys side to advance to the Southwest regionals.

Midway girls won many a title years ago then fell off. It’ll be interesting to see once this group moves on whether the run to the WS continues.

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In our local little league (and maybe everywhere FAIK), parents are trying to have their cake and eat it too by pulling their kids out of Little League completely at 7u or 8u for select ball or select-lite, fully intending to just drop back in at 12u like celebrated road warriors to boot out every other kid and family that sustained the local league over the years and gobble up all the spots on the 12u all-star team that will try to make it to LLWS. 

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Our dumb fuck city decided to rent out our fields to a bunch of tournaments right when Fall season was supposed to be in full swing so they moved up our season a full month. Started practices 3 weeks ago.
For FALL baseball.
Play on turf so it’s even hotter.
Kids are doing their best but it sucks.
My son’s gear is a month old and it already stinks to high hell.

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https://www.littleleague.org/world-series/2023/llbws/   (bracket, team, info, schedule)

 

LLWS begins today.   Needville vs Media, Pa at 6PM (CT).

 

Little League Baseball World Series schedule

(All times in ET)

Aug. 16
1 p.m. Game 1: Europe-Africa vs. Panama on ESPN
3 p.m. Game 2: Mountain vs. Metro on ESPN
5 p.m. Game 3: Japan vs. Cuba on ESPN
7 p.m. Game 4: Southwest vs. Mid-Atlantic on ESPN

Aug. 17
1 p.m. Game 5: Caribbean vs. Australia on ESPN
3 p.m. Game 6: Northwest vs. New England on ESPN
5 p.m. Game 7: Canada vs. Asia-Pacific on ESPN
7 p.m. Game 8: West vs. Great Lakes on ESPN2

Aug. 18
1 p.m. Game 9: TBD vs. Latin America on ESPN
3 p.m. Game 10: TBD vs. Southeast on ESPN
5 p.m. Game 11: TBD vs. Mexico on ESPN
7 p.m. Game 12: TBD vs. Midwest on ESPN

Aug. 19
1 p.m. LLBWS Game 13: Game 3 loser vs. Game 5 loser on ESPN
3 p.m. LLBWS Game 14: Game 4 loser vs. Game 6 loser on ESPN
5 p.m. LLBWS Game 15: Game 1 loser vs. Game 7 loser on ESPN
7 p.m. LLBWS Game 16: Game 2 loser vs. Game 8 loser on ESPN2

Aug. 20
9 a.m. LLBWS Game 17: Game 9 loser vs. Game 13 winner on ESPN
11 a.m. LLBWS Game 18: Game 10 loser vs. Game 14 winner on ESPN
1 p.m. LLBWS Game 19: Game 11 loser vs. Game 15 winner on ESPN
2 p.m. LLBWS Game 20: Game 12 loser vs. Game 16 winner on ABC

Aug. 21
1 p.m. LLBWS Game 21: Game 5 winner vs. Game 9 winner on ESPN
3 p.m. LLBWS Game 22: Game 6 winner vs. Game 10 winner on ESPN
5 p.m. LLBWS Game 23: Game 11 winner vs. Game 7 winner on ESPN
7 p.m. LLBWS Game 24: Game 12 winner vs. Game 8 winner on ESPN2

Aug. 22
1 p.m. LLBWS Game 25: Game 21 loser vs. Game 19 winner on ESPN
3 p.m. LLBWS Game 26: Game 22 loser vs. Game 20 winner on ESPN
5 p.m. LLBWS Game 27: Game 23 loser vs. Game 17 winner on ESPN
7 p.m. LLBWS Game 28: Game 24 loser vs. Game 18 winner on ESPN

Aug. 23
1 p.m. LLBWS Game 29: Game 21 winner vs. Game 23 winner on ESPN
3 p.m. LLBWS Game 30: Game 22 winner vs. Game 24 winner on ESPN
5 p.m. LLBWS Game 31: Game 27 winner vs. Game 25 winner on ESPN
7 p.m. LLBWS Game 32: Game 28 winner vs. Game 26 winner on ESPN

Aug. 24
3 p.m. LLBWS Game 33: Game 29 loser vs. Game 31 winner on ESPN
5 p.m. T-Mobile Little League Home Run Derby live
7 p.m. LLBWS Game 34: Game 30 loser vs. Game 32 winner on ESPN

Aug. 25
7 p.m. T-Mobile Little League Home Run Derby airing on ESPN

Aug. 26
12:30 p.m. International Championship on ABC
3:30 p.m. U.S. Championship on EABC

Aug. 27
11 a.m. Consolation Game on ESPN
3 p.m. World Series Championship on ABC

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/38128753/2023-little-league-world-series-schedule-channels-scores-highlights

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8 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

I am continually amazed at the quality of play by these kids. It is excellent baseball and a pleasure to watch.

I used to always watch this every year with my dad. Sure miss him.

Got a live chat going with my son. Both of us are still at work, but we have it on! 

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On 8/17/2023 at 4:42 PM, cmontexas said:

This Taipei pitcher is a grown ass man

Taipei went through a ban from LLWS back in the 90’s for aggregating their team with the best players throughout their entire country, with some of them as old as 16 yo. Looked to me like they are back at it from what I saw yesterday.

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Small ball and excellent base running carries Needville to a 6-2 victory over NDakota.        vs Calif (El Segundo), 6PM, Monday, ESPN2

Edit:  Also, excellent management of the pitching staff by the coach

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11 hours ago, torre said:

Small ball and excellent base running carries Needville to a 6-2 victory over NDakota.        vs Calif (El Segundo), 6PM, Monday, ESPN2

Edit:  Also, excellent management of the pitching staff by the coach

Yes a great move by the coach.

After watching a lot of this tournament and even the regionals, I think that team from Tennessee might be the best team on the USA side. They can really hit and their fielding has been spectacular.

Great baseball though all the way around.

 

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10 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Yes a great move by the coach.

After watching a lot of this tournament and even the regionals, I think that team from Tennessee might be the best team on the USA side. They can really hit and their fielding has been spectacular.

Great baseball though all the way around.

 

Definitely looks to be more competitive and therefore enjoyable as a spectator compared to the Hawaii juggernaut last year. 

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Today is MLB day at the LLWS.    Phillies and Nationals will spend most of the day at the LLWS park and later play a game at the local minor league park.

Tune in and see the great interaction between players.   MLB players enjoy it as much as the little leaguers.

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Kid from Rhode Island ran way outside the baseline to avoid a tag on FC to 3rd. Horrible non call

 

Edit to add: why does the Philly team wear their Howntown jersey but every other team is wearing the regional LLWS uniforms?

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The youth baseball league I run is not allowed in the Little League organization because our facilities are not up to standard.  Even if we could join we wouldn’t have another Little League organization within 2 hours of us.  Since I took over we have gone from 201 kids to 267 last year and 312 this year.  I even kicked a couple of teams out of the league during that time frame because they wanted to be a select team in a rec league.  We’ve had a lot of kids coming back to the league from select ball.  Have also picked up 4 teams from neighboring small towns because their leagues have closed down.  I hate that so many kids are leaving the leagues to join select ball and never getting a chance to play All Stars or represent their towns.

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34 minutes ago, cmontexas said:

Every Japan hitter stands on top of the plate and dives out over it and the umps wont call strikes

This lady ump is calling it straight. Imagine being 12 years old and standing on the plate vs a kid throwing 80 plus from 45 feet away

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Needville beat El Segundo 3-1 behind solid defense and clutch pitching and a HR by their ace Jablonski. (should we offer or wait a year ?)

vs Washington, Wed, 2PM, ESPN for a spot in the US Championship Game on Saturday.

Taipei vs Curacao at 12PM, Wed for a spot in the Intl Championship.

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Needville beats Seattle 1-0 in 9 innings. Incredible game. Great pitching and defensive plays from both sides. They advance to the US finals vs Tennessee/Seattle winner.

Taiwan advances to the Intl final. Fueled by Huck's upthread disrespect, they've outscored opponents 25-1 in 3 games

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On 8/8/2023 at 3:08 PM, Steamboat1874 said:

That Needville team is really solid. I have seen three of their games now and they are impressive.

Steamboat the prophet post on 8 Aug.

Needville will play in the US Championship Game,  Saturday, 2:30, ABC.

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9 minutes ago, torre said:

Steamboat the prophet post on 8 Aug.

Needville will play in the US Championship Game,  Saturday, 2:30, ABC.

Today’s game was magnificent baseball by both teams.

Incredible pitching and the defense was outstanding.

The play to end the game by the Needville shortstop was incredible.

 

Side note:

I initially thought that team from Tennessee might be the best.

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4 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Today’s game was magnificent baseball by both teams.

Incredible pitching and the defense was outstanding.

The play to end the game by the Needville shortstop was incredible.

 

Side note:

I initially thought that team from Tennessee might be the best.

Incredible game.  Can't believe I don't have any fingernails left.  

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