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Little League World Series
kimi
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The International and U.S. championship games are to be played today on ABC beginning right now. Chinese Tapei and Japan getting ready to kick it off, with Hawaii taking on Pearland White out of Houston.
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Josh Lester of Georgia started a rally with a liner to right center. New Hampshire pitching change with Georgia leading 4 zip.
Top of 4th: GA 4 NH 0
Left hander Josh Lester drives a low liner to left center for a double, and gets 2 more RBIs for GA, and a 6-0 lead over NH with one out in the fourth. Lester has now gone two for two, with one triple and one double.
Final update. Georgia advances to the U.S Final against Beaverton, OR. Kyle Carter hit a HR with one on to give GA a 8-0 lead. It was Carter's 54th HR for the year! Amazing. Can it be true?
I just watched a kid from CT throw a complete game shutout on only 64 pitches...58 of which were strikes.
Some of them are just plain amazing!
Texas and Pennsylvania - 12 PM ABC
I know the Texans are disappointed, but those boys should be proud. It was a great game.
Better, I think, than the CA game.
Texas simply ran out of picthers and had to use their catcher, who as you saw did quite well. Like the announcer said, all of their pitchers would be eligible tomorrow, but today is then they were needed the most. They are obviously a much better team than they look to be to hang as tough as they did against their competiton. Congratualtions to the PA team, hopefully, they can win it all!
Our's are waving the bat around and acting like they are some Major League doofus. Kids that age do not have the wrist strength to dink around like that and then get the bat ready when the pitch comes.
The kids from Japan will load into position as the pitcher starts his windup, and have the bat ready to fire.
The kids from Japan are also drilled in keeping their head down and on the ball. Our kids were yanking their heads out and getting ready to watch the ball fly, which is why the pitcher from Japan that was throwing off speed stuff had them buffaloed.
Not sure why the USA coaches can't figure this out, but it happens year after year. Heroics make great video. Fundamentals win baseball games.
Yes they are. They play better fundamental baseball. Watch the kids when they are up to bat.
Our's are waving the bat around and acting like they are some Major League doofus. Kids that age do not have the wrist strength to dink around like that and then get the bat ready when the pitch comes.
The kids from Japan will load into position as the pitcher starts his windup, and have the bat ready to fire.
The kids from Japan are also drilled in keeping their head down and on the ball. Our kids were yanking their heads out and getting ready to watch the ball fly, which is why the pitcher from Japan that was throwing off speed stuff had them buffaloed.
Not sure why the USA coaches can't figure this out, but it happens year after year. Heroics make great video. Fundamentals win baseball games.
This ^^^^
quote:Originally posted by Dads3040
Yes they are. They play better fundamental baseball. Watch the kids when they are up to bat.
Our's are waving the bat around and acting like they are some Major League doofus. Kids that age do not have the wrist strength to dink around like that and then get the bat ready when the pitch comes.
The kids from Japan will load into position as the pitcher starts his windup, and have the bat ready to fire.
The kids from Japan are also drilled in keeping their head down and on the ball. Our kids were yanking their heads out and getting ready to watch the ball fly, which is why the pitcher from Japan that was throwing off speed stuff had them buffaloed.
Not sure why the USA coaches can't figure this out, but it happens year after year. Heroics make great video. Fundamentals win baseball games.
This ^^^^
That's certainly a big part of it. Crowding the plate also has a psych affect on a lot of U.S. pitchers, and it also allows the Japanese kids to put the barrel of the bat on outside pitches that would ordinarily be out of that range. Then they have the extraordinary discipline to understand their "do not strike out" philosophy which is decidely different from, for example, the Pennsylvania team's swing for a home run each time you go after the ball. Their ability of when to stop swinging for the fence and shift into a just hit the ball mode is uncanny. It's obvious that the oriental LL teams have perfected fundamentals to a highly advanced degree. Another clue to their success has to do with the coaches administering a tough love philosophy as opposed to one of praise as used by most U.S. coaches.
Did not follow it at all this year
Where have you been, Ben?!!!!![:)]