Mexico gamers rejoice after their win over Puerto Rico after the sixth inning of a baseball recreation on the Little League World Series, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025, in South Williamsport, Pa. (AP Photo/Jared Freed)
Trailing by 4 runs by 4 innings, Mexico knew that it wanted a spark. The staff most likely didn’t assume it might come within the type of two large dwelling runs, although.
Gregorio Madrid took a shot deep over the left-center area wall for a monster grand slam to rapidly tie the sport earlier than Iker Castaneda would homer shortly thereafter and provides Mexico a 6-4 lead during which Mexico by no means regarded again en path to an 11-4 elimination recreation win at Volunteer Stadium over Puerto Rico to advance.
In complete, there have been 5 dwelling runs in Saturday’s recreation between Mexico and Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico led 1-0 within the third because of a triple by Sebastian Colon Rivera which introduced in Derek Delgado Padilla. An error added one other run earlier than Azariel Alvarado Medina had a two-run dwelling run for a 4-0 lead.
Two singles within the high of the sixth put Mexico forward 8-4 from Evan Levario and Ian Cono, respectively. That was adopted with a three-run dwelling run by Madrid, his second of the day.
Puerto Rico’s Sebastian Casanova Diaz homered within the sixth to chop the deficit to 11-5.
ILLINOIS 3, PENNSYLVANIA 2
Pennsylvania went down swinging towards Illinois, however got here up simply shy. After trailing 3-0 going into the fourth inning, the Keystone State all-stars scored twice to chop the deficit to 1.
Aiden Mercer hit an RBI double to centerfield which scored Marek Kalavik and made it a 3-1 deficit. It would then be Justin Shaw who singled to proper to herald Mercer and make it a 3-2 recreation.
But Illinois did properly limiting Pennsylvania’s offense from there, not permitting a game-tying run and letting momentum shift away.
Liam Harrigan (1 for two) and Matthe Kalish (1 for 1, RBI) every had doubles for Illinois. The Great Lakes Regional champions scored all three of their runs within the backside of the third inning.
MASSACHUSETTS 7, TEXAS 3
Texas began the sport robust with two runs within the first inning, however Massachusetts didn’t let it rattle them. The New England Regional champions rapidly scored three runs of their very own within the backside of the primary to tie the sport and went on to safe a 7-3 win over the Southwest Regional champions at Lamade Stadium.
Caden McCarthy had a two-RBI triple within the backside of the primary inning to tie up the sport at 2-all. He would then rating on a wild pitch earlier than Henry Kuka singled to make it a 3-2 Massachusetts lead.
Massachusetts added two extra runs within the second inning and scored twice extra within the third for a 7-2 lead towards Texas.
The Southwest Regional champions would lower the result in 7-3 when Lucas Sontag singled to herald Joseph Miller within the fifth, however wouldn’t be capable to rally.Sontag went 3 for 3 to steer Texas.
Massachusetts was led by Sam Trotta (2 for two, two RBIs).
AUSTRALIA 5, CZECHIA 3
Australia pitchers Issei Hamano, Averey Griffin and Preston Reid held Czechia to only one hit at Volunteer Stadium en path to a 5-3 win in an elimination recreation. With the win, Australia will face Canada.
Hamano performed nice for Australia on the mound, throwing 4 2/3 innings with 12 strikeouts and no hits allowed with 4 walks.
Czechia solely allowed two hits, each singles as Mikulas Barta threw 1 2/3 innings with two strikeouts and Mikulas Binek threw 3 1/3 innings with three strikeouts.
Czechia’s solely hit got here from the bat of David Caha (1 for two, run). Australia was led by Hamano (1 for two, run), and Ryder Smith (1 for two).
While neither staff’s offense had been silent for majority of the sport, it was walks which made a distinction. Czechia walked eight batters whereas Australia walked seven.