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Little League World Series

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Delaware vs. THE Iowa? Sorry DE, you don't have a prayer. Save the travel costs and mail in an L.

Hopefully, the Newark kids survive

Newark National LL is where I played little league baseball. Newark has a #1 pitcher as good as anybody that they'll most likely throw tonight. I like their odds against Iowa. Crowd for that game is supposed to be 20,000-25,000 plus, that will help the adopted local team.

bluehenbillk wrote:Newark National LL is where I played little league baseball. Newark has a #1 pitcher as good as anybody that they'll most likely throw tonight. I like their odds against Iowa. Crowd for that game is supposed to be 20,000-25,000 plus, that will help the adopted local team.

I played in Newark American, but still pulling hard for the hometown team.

SunCoastBlueHen wrote:

bluehenbillk wrote:Newark National LL is where I played little league baseball. Newark has a #1 pitcher as good as anybody that they'll most likely throw tonight. I like their odds against Iowa. Crowd for that game is supposed to be 20,000-25,000 plus, that will help the adopted local team.

I played in Newark American, but still pulling hard for the hometown team.

Naamans LL here. We used to shit on Newark.

ASUG8 wrote:Delaware vs. THE Iowa? Sorry DE, you don't have a prayer. Save the travel costs and mail in an L.

5-0 Delaware early.

Also, upstate slime doesn't impress me. One downstate team already won a World Series this month.

93henfan wrote:

ASUG8 wrote:Delaware vs. THE Iowa? Sorry DE, you don't have a prayer. Save the travel costs and mail in an L.

5-0 Delaware early.

Also, upstate slime doesn't impress me. One downstate team already won a World Series this month.

There's an upstate and downstate in Delaware?

tribe_pride wrote:

93henfan wrote:
5-0 Delaware early.

Also, upstate slime doesn't impress me. One downstate team already won a World Series this month.

There's an upstate and downstate in Delaware?

Absolutely. Above and below the canal. I-95 urban/industrial nightmare above and God's country, beaches, Amish below.

93henfan wrote:

tribe_pride wrote:
There's an upstate and downstate in Delaware?

Absolutely. Above and below the canal. I-95 urban/industrial nightmare above and God's country, beaches, Amish below.

What he said!

bluehenbillk wrote:Newark has a #1 pitcher as good as anybody that they'll most likely throw tonight.

Is the kid that started tonight the #1? Not that he has pitched bad, but he is hardly dominant.

Edit: never mind, the kid that came in to pitch the 5th is obviously the #1.

The Associated Press

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Joseph Davis allowed one hit in 4 2-3 innings and Newark, Del., scored five times in the first inning to beat Urbandale, Iowa, 6-3 in the Little League World Series on Friday night.
The Mid-Atlantic champions had six hits in the first, including for straight by Nathan Hardcastle, Davis, Eric Ludman and Jack Hardcastle. Jared Owens added a two-run single and Ryan Miller followed with a run-scoring triple.

Brady Roberts and Sam Petrillo had the only two hits for Iowa. Roberts drove in Brock Heinen in the first inning. Iowa scored its other runs on a passed ball in the second and a wild pitch in the seventh.
Davis and Nathan Hardcastle, who pitched 1 1-3 innings in relief, each had two hits for Newark, which will face Chula Vista, Calif., on Sunday.

Urbandale drops to the loser's bracket and meets Grosse Pointe, Mich., on Saturday.

Chula Vista, CA next. That's probably gonna be a tough one. Those CA kids play year-round.

93henfan wrote:

tribe_pride wrote:
There's an upstate and downstate in Delaware?

Absolutely. Above and below the canal. I-95 urban/industrial nightmare above and God's country, beaches, Amish below.

In a perfect world, that's what UD and DSU would represent. The ag, slower lower DE school for DSU, and all the yuppies up north go to UD. Well the second part is already true.

SunCoastBlueHen wrote:

bluehenbillk wrote:Newark has a #1 pitcher as good as anybody that they'll most likely throw tonight.

Is the kid that started tonight the #1? Not that he has pitched bad, but he is hardly dominant.

Edit: never mind, the kid that came in to pitch the 5th is obviously the #1.

Yea Hardcastle is their ace, he is starting vs CA on Sunday.

What's up with the flat billed hats?

HI54UNI wrote:What's up with the flat billed hats?

It's never proper. Even for kids too young to know any better.


So apparently this California team that Delaware is facing tomorrow has a pitcher who is 6'4", 166 lbs. Yesterday, he threw the first ever complete game no-hitter in Little League history since a rule change in 2007 that limits pitchers to 85 pitches. His no hitter went into one extra inning, so this kid pitched a no-hit shutout of less than 85 pitches over seven innings. 13 Ks.

David vs Goliath tomorrow.

93henfan wrote:

HI54UNI wrote:What's up with the flat billed hats?

It's never proper. Even for kids too young to know any better.


So apparently this California team that Delaware is facing tomorrow has a pitcher who is 6'4", 166 lbs. Yesterday, he threw the first ever complete game no-hitter in Little League history since a rule change in 2007 that limits pitchers to 85 pitches. His no hitter went into one extra inning, so this kid pitched a no-hit shutout of less than 85 pitches over seven innings. 13 Ks.

David vs Goliath tomorrow.

I know they're aren't ever proper. I've had a couple of conversations with my kids about it explaining how wrong it is. The neighbor kid plays on a traveling team that is in a league that could play in the LL World Series. Their whole team is flat billed hats. My son told him his hat looked stupid and the neighbor kid said the coach told them they had to leave them that way.

I saw that kid from Cali. If he was a Chinese gymnast I would think they were lying about his age.

93henfan wrote:

HI54UNI wrote:What's up with the flat billed hats?

It's never proper. Even for kids too young to know any better.


So apparently this California team that Delaware is facing tomorrow has a pitcher who is 6'4", 166 lbs. Yesterday, he threw the first ever complete game no-hitter in Little League history since a rule change in 2007 that limits pitchers to 85 pitches. His no hitter went into one extra inning, so this kid pitched a no-hit shutout of less than 85 pitches over seven innings. 13 Ks.

David vs Goliath tomorrow.

Kid can't pitch tomorrow, actually can't pitch until at least Tuesday.

Chula Vista slaughter rules Newark.

93henfan wrote:David vs Goliath tomorrow.

Oof.

David took a beating.

They showed no California Love today.

I haven't seen a group of kids pitch that badly in a long time.

Holy crap, not one of the Delaware pitchers could consistently get the ball anywhere near the plate. Some of those pitches were thrown nearly 7 feet high and 3-4 feet off the plate...repeatedly.

WTF?

Cluck U wrote:I haven't seen a group of kids pitch that badly in a long time.

Holy crap, not one of the Delaware pitchers could consistently get the ball anywhere near the plate. Some of those pitches were thrown nearly 7 feet high and 3-4 feet off the plate...repeatedly.

WTF?

They're 12 year olds. Stage fright is real at that level. It was really obvious with our second pitcher. If you looked close enough, you could see the piss running down his leg.

Lost 10-0 in the fourth with no outs earlier today.

In other words, after Delaware got a 2-0 lead, they got crushed 25-1 in their next 6.2 innings pitched, never making it out of the fourth inning of either game.