Asia-Pacific vs Mexico | Winner To International Championship Game | 2022 LLWS Highlights 

What I’ve noticed this series is that the short stops are great. Nicaragua’s is amazing. Compared to other series, the pitching seems to not be as dominate as in years past. That could be due to stricter age checks. The catchers seem rough this year. Lot of passed balls when they shouldn’t have been.

@@colbypitt8895 It’s little league and they are 12 you have to remember these aren’t top talent 12 year olds.. top talent 12 year olds are at AAU nationals or in North Carolina at the USA camp. These are a group of kids that formed a good team in your neighborhood and just didn’t lose all summer.. so with that being said if you know little league you know passed balls are common that happens often that isn’t surprising. In regards to the pitching thing it’s early in the tournament. Most teams are saving their best pitchers for championship rounds when they need them. I am sure we will see better pitching in the following games to come now that teams are in a win or go home situation. But yes I agree there has been a lot of good short stops this year not just Mexico, Hawaii, Nicaragua ext have good short stops too. Infield play kn general has been great this year. As a former catcher and former short stop I love to see it

@@colbypitt8895 I agree Garcia was the smoothest in this entire llws kid moved like a professional

Short stop is usually the best one on the field. Grew up playing SS and was always the best if not one of the best on all my teams.

Hi is a good baseball player

Disagree. The kids took themselves out of the game and the Asian pitchers owned the outside of the plate.

I think the ump only missed that hit by pitch call, the others were confirmed by replay. And the ump gave every team the same strike zone the whole tournament imo. It's just about which pitcher can more consistently hit those spots. And Taiwan's pitchers are no joke, dropping only 1 run in 6 games.

@@chihchang1139 they also could have easily challenged the hit by pitch, but chose not to.

@@jh0720 bad call ? They literally went under review lmfao . Like 8 professional umpires in a room replaying it over and over . Wym bad calls lol .

Harder how?...calls that were reviewed were made correct as video shows you.

It's a bigger zone so the pitchers have a chance. It's already a smaller field, bases are closer, and the bats are lighter. The offense has a lot of handicap and these kids are amazing offensive players. If you don't expand the zone, there's no way the defense can survive. You will see more 50+ points games like in the old days. And if your pitcher can pitch exactly 1 baseball away from the strike zone, that pitcher deserves that strike. Pitching is difficult enough as it is, and these kids are pitching curveballs and knuckleballs too.

But but it's alright in the end according the announcers lmao

@@chihchang1139 Maybe consider restricting the bats more then. No drop 8 or drop 10 or whatever they are allowed to swing :). I understand your point though.

That strike zone was bullshit!!

The ump had a reasonable strike zone for the first two innings with respect to painting the edges, and his zone was evenly applied to both teams. Then his strike zone became wider and wider as the game progressed, with Taipei getting most of the calls. A really wide strike call was when the Chinese pitcher lined up on the left side of the rubber with the catcher holding his mitt directly in line with the edge of the batter's box. The pitcher threw a straight fast ball which traveled right over the edge of the batter's box for its entire length. I can go along with a sharp slider catching the edge of the plate caught by the catcher over the batter's box, being called a strike. After all, it's where the ball crosses the plate, not where it's caught. But too many pitches that are way off the plate are called strikes. Most of the Little League World Series umps have wide strike zones. The best one that I've seen so far was the one that called Hawaii's opening game. My son played Little League for 7 years. A few umps were horrible, most were OK, and a few were excellent. The best one ever met with the head coaches of both teams before the game to explain his strike zone: An outside pitch a ball width off the plate will be called a strike, but an inside pitch will not be. No one disputed his calls for the entire game, which was a game between West Oahu and Makakilo. (West Oahu won the LLWS the following year.)

Absolutely

They are umpires not refs

Blatant robbery

I mean at least he was consistently calling it. Taiwan definitely abused that more but fair play to them, they were smart and skilled enough to throw outside. Each ump is different and if you’ve played the game you know the strike zone is “somewhere” out there lol.

Lots of errors to

As well as 9:44

@@noaheggert9352 @ 9:44 the pitch looked way outside of the plate. I remember watching the video live and I thought that was a bad call.

It was pretty obvious

Kid is gifted for sure.

It would be better with pro umpires

@@rsn2012 I've watched LLWS for many, many years. Always great, hard fought games, but with polite sportmanship. No ump is ever perfect. But the series itself is always a good investment of time ... for the teams, and the spectators.

@@ge_mail I know they do their best, but they aren't used to the speed in which these games happen. Pitch speed and plays at the bases happen so fast at this level. A 72 MPH pitch 5 inches off the plate is impossible to hit. It can't be called a strike in a legitimate game.

FILLED WITH GARBAGE UMPIRES 🗑️

I had to laugh at that one too

They think everything is perfect here lmao

They are just lying to make the Series seem like it has a gold standard or something. These guys are volunteers and not very good at their jobs.

Watch the hawaii game. Tennessee got whooped.

@@clarkwey7618 yup , Hawaii is just a different beast . I don’t think any international team has a chance

Can't anger the overlords.

Taiwan wants to be the real china tho

@@chunchunmaru4428 nobody wants to be chinese. Taiwan functions like an independent country, will never be part of china.Wake up.

It’s called Chinese Taipei because Taiwan wants to be called Taiwan but China who still has power over Taiwan wants them to be called the Republic of China, so to make them even, Taiwan in sports is Chinese Taipei

Can they meet again this year? Finals this weekend and will be international against us. I think it will be Hawaii vs Taiwan

@@fredalzner6502 Yes, Mexico goes into the lower bracket and if they win their next game, they will meet Taiwan again for the international finals, whoever wins that goes to the world series finals against the US team.

He's been bad the entire LLWS but at least he's consistently horrible behind the plate. The outside called strikes are unhittable. I wish the commentators would be more verbal about it.

​@@darklordojeda yeah true

Follow the money

That makes it ok?

He's lined up so far outside that if the pitcher actually did throw it over the plate it would hit that moron umpire right in the nuts. He's throwing up his hand to call strike the instant the ball hits the glove. He's the worst of the bunch and they've all been really bad.

And he dropped a few easy pitches too, I agree with you. Kinda killed the momentum

I don’t think he’s really a catcher thou, they might be playing him there because of his hitting

Not a good catcher at all

He didn't block the plate on that one play, throw took him there

@@thebutcher7036 nop, he positioned is body in front of the base runners path at the same time the SS releases the ball, yes the throw made I’m lean even more but he was already obstructing, if you review every other play where he positions himself to receive a throw he is always obstructing, he might not do it on purpose, but he is obstructing

why are they called "Chinese Taipei" instead of Taiwan?

@@thirstypilgrim97 So the CCP doesn't throw a fit

@@thirstypilgrim97 Politics. Even though the team is from Taiwan, many organizations do not want to offend China. It’s sad that Taiwan can’t fully represent themselves

@@neilwu468 why shouldn't they?

@@sappy_boi why shouldn’t Taiwan play as Taiwan? The little league organization probably wouldn’t allow it so they do not upset the Chinese government.

por si no lo sabes,hemos ganado este torneo varias veces!!!

@@elguerogil1 si dos veces y han sido de nuevo keon

對呀😊

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None of the plate umpires have been good that i've seen but this guy is by far the worst of the bunch. He's got the "I've been doing this for years, I can't be wrong" kind of mentality.

Ese wey lleva todo el torneo cagándola jajajaja está terrible

@@maxiporondio es la primera vez que lo miro y la neta la cago machin

what?

@@tyleravery4732 Chinese Taipei doesn't exist, there is no country called Chinese Taipei. What people call Chinese Taipei, is really called Taiwan. Taiwan was formed after a civil war in what we now call China. ESPN is owned by Disney who is in bed with the Chinese (PRC) government.

@@tyleravery4732 Taiwan is an island which claims to be an independent country. Mainland China (People's Republic of China) claims that Taiwan is part of Mainland China. So any & all references to "Chinese Taipei" are essentially political appeasement to Mainland China. It's also the reason Mainland China was angry the other week when Nancy Pelosi traveled to Taiwan.

@@tyleravery4732 You live under a rock bro? There is no such place as Chinese Taipei. Taipei is the capital city of the country of Taiwan. Though, China sure would like you to believe that it is just a territory of China and the demorats and the lame stream media are too afraid to argue so folks like ESPN put Chinese Taipei on the score board.

chinese taipei isn’t in china its in taiwan

WITH THOSE CALLS ANYONE CAN BEAT MEXICO

@@abrahamlopez5449 that's what a loser would say. I suppose the catcher and first baseman errors were the umpires fault too. Blame it on someone else that's so easy.

They don't want to see the neighbor wins

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3--- throw took the catcher to the tag, did not block the plate

They’ve done this too many times in this llws. I understand giving them a little bit bigger of a strike zone, but that pitch was in the other batters box

And some people would claim it's the camera angle but that is a terrible argument. Look where he catches the ball, the glove is aligned with his right knee, his right knee is easily 12", if not more, into the opposing batters box. These plate umpires are absolute garbage.

Politics...

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That’s the biggest difference I’ve noticed is the catchers’ performance in general seems different than previous years. Interestingly, the pitchers seem to be throwing slower than in the past also.

@@colbypitt8895 I agree totally. There used to always seem to be at least one or two guys throwing around 78 mph. And catchers don't seem to be as mobile behind the plate. They don't shift to block pitches outside or in the dirt and are reaching for ball that get by them to easily.

I’ve noticed that multiple catchers have not been the caliber as in previous LLWS. I wonder if there is something that has changed across the board to lower the skills of catchers in general?

Also the 3rd baseman too. The lack of hustle when the catcher threw the ball to 3rd and It hit the runner he gave up on the play .

China bullies international organizations into using Chinese Taipei when referring to Taiwan. it's really quite pathetic

​@@d3wbaka Exactly, China has been trying to tell people who don't understand the relationship between China and Taiwan that Taiwan is part of the PRC. It is very likely to affect all Taiwanese athletes if Taiwan wants to do something like using "Taiwan" as our team name. We have no choice since nobody wants to sacrifice the effort of our athletes

Why

Not the one at the plate, also they still would’ve lost

9:45 bad calls for Taipei, actually in that innings, 3 balls like that are called strike.