Hawaii looks like high schoolers playing kids. Whoever trained their bats did an amazing job. They sit back on pitches as well or better than anybody I’ve seen in this tournament over the years, and it’s team wide.
@@EveryTimeIDavid i played for these guys and so did my older brother. My brother and these coaches won the cal ripken world series in 2005. They faced Trevor Gott from the brewers in the US championship and he was throwing 83 at 12 years old from 46 ft. Cal Ripken pushed their mounds back the following year because of it
@@backupdriver6354 Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised to see Chinese Taipei win it all this year. No one's really talking about them. It's all Mexico and Hawaii. Chinese Taipei lost their first game 1-2 to Korea back in Taipei city... Korea outscored opponents 27-2 aside from that game. Since that loss, they've had 6 straight shutouts going 41-0 vs opponents. They don't hit as much as a team like Mexico who has 65 runs since the LLS started or 54 like Hawaii. But their defense and pitching is incredibly good compared to the 18 runs Mexico has let up and the 6 that Hawaii has (against worse teams imo). Not to mention the Chinese Taipei junior team going 5-0 in their tournament, outscoring opponents 61-1 this year. (Beating everyone by double digits until the championship) Either way, I hope the best team wins, and I'm excited to see the matchups today. I expect them to be close games!
Hey every dog has its day! The bigger they are the harder the fall! Never lose faith just play your best!! Both teams didn’t get to that game without the hard work! Let’s go Hawaii!! Hehehe🤙🏾
@@jaysantos536 I’m order for that to happen native Hawaiians need to be given our land back. We all know that won’t happen so they’re gonna stay in the U.S bracket as long as we’re apart of the united states
my man Vonn Fe'ao from the 2005 Hawaii team still has one of the best cannon's and sticks that I have seen from a little leaguer. I hope that guy is doing ok now. He had a lotta potential. A fierce competitor and a hell of an athlete.
Keep in mind one of the reasons why Hawaii teams are usually good is that we get to play all year around. We only have two seasons: HOT and NOT AS HOT. You can find baseball leagues playing any time, even December-March. It is rare that a game gets rained out, too. This is probably the same reason why teams from Central America also do well. Hawaii is on the same latitude as Mexico City.
True but these days kids in almost every area have access to high-tech indoor facilities and are able to train year-round. Here in WA kids they have $100,000 video pitching machines and professional coaches.
s pang you have a point. Florida and California have many MLB players. It’s not hot here in Hawaii. Central Florida is hot and humid. Living in Japan for many years they play baseball year round and not in a cozy indoor warm environment. These Hawaii kids are good very good
@@jimmyhorsefly9304 Polynesians are actually pretty big people, the Roc, Jason Mamoa. Akebono is a Hawaiian who went to Japan to be a champion sumo wrestler in the 90s. He's 6'8 500 lbs.
If that's true then they've already won. We all know they can hit, if they have pitching depth then it's all over. Also, idk what this other guy is talking about. Please don't hurt me.
@@jimmyhorsefly9304 you thought wrong. A lot of the kids on this team are actually pretty average to small here. Or at least some of them are kind of tall, but they don't have the bulk that a lot of Polynesian kids have. For instance, my nephew plays little league for a city outside of Honolulu, he's 5'7" and 170 lbs, as a 12 going on 13 year old. When I was in 6th grade, there were a bunch of Samoan kids in my class, and they were approaching 6 feet tall and nearly 200 pounds. It's also not a great sample, because they're the Honolulu All-stars, they're the biggest, fastest, strongest kids from all over O'ahu.
@@sntslilhlpr6601 Their top 2 are special. Sniffen is their next best, but he has had command issues since the State Tournament. Get them out of Lancaster and Sakamoto, then you will have a chance. Watson and Hiramoto are the next best. They are solid, but they are not top tier.
for those saying Honolulu is huge... fwiw, Honolulu is smaller than Bakersfield CA... and what about Waipahu in 2008, Ewa in 2005, Wailuku 2016, Hilo 2011, Peal City 2007, Aiea 2001, etc. etc. we dont all live Honolulu... Im 250 miles from the city... we have 49 people per sq mile in my town... aloha
Hawaii loves baseball because it is our national pastime. I've lived in 5 States and my kids have played baseball, football, and soccer in all of them including Hawaii. FACT: There are more 12U baseball clubs on the island of Oahu, (Honolulu County), per household than any other county in the USA with tournaments every weekend year round. All of the kids in Hawaii that were defeated by Honolulu, or wanted a piece of them and didn't make it that far in the state tournament are out practicing and playing right now trying figure one of two things: How to beat them next year so we can make it to the LLWS, or if they live or go to school in Honolulu, how do I get good enough to make their team so we can win the LLWS next year.
I think Hawaii has been so good because most mainland players have moved on to travel ball, while Little League still dominates the islands. Meaning the best mainland players play Travel Ball while the best Hawaiian players play Little League.
I'd argue Hawaii's best players don't even play Little League. We play PONY League and have been stealing bases since 10 years old. So stop with your lame excuses lol
@@_STNML All the kids you're watching from Hawaii played 50/70 and we're taking leads, stealing bases, pitching from the stretch. They bring it in around May, get use to the smaller diamond, and go crush it.
@@vesqx4978 That would be an unreal game. If it were 2009 I'd still take chula vista but if it was played by todays rules then probably this Hawai'i team.
@@chanfam6365 the bats that 2009 team had are illegal today. Those red Easton stealths had unreal pop. Different bat regulations really make a major difference at the llws in terms of home runs
@@chanfam6365 Bats and Age limits. Before 2019, 13 year olds could play at the Majors level, and the majority were 13 and not 12 like they are now. Huge difference.
i get the fact that the umps are volunteers but my god i have never seen such bad umping ever lmao even when they go to the booth and review something they still seem to get the calls wrong smh
lol all these people hating have never met Hawaiians. Islanders are always pretty big people and usually hit their max size earlier based on the ones i knew
@@6412mars yes exactly! Feel like alot of these people are just in areas where theyve never been near american islanders. Especially texas fans i guess lol
They have only 5 districts in the state. So they can pick out of a larger pool of kids. Orange County Calif has over 30 districts so the talent thins out.
Why is almost every game this year a blowout? Japan v Nicaragua feels like it was the only exciting game. It’s boring when the scores are alway 6-0, 10-0, ect
I feel like all of Tennessee's games have been really good (even the 5-2 win over Indiana they were tied in the bottom of the 6th with bases loaded and no outs). Indiana's games before they played Pennsylvania were good.
Ok the women behind the plate needs to stay out in the field. She was pinching the Texas Pitchers. I think she warned the Texas bench for barking at her.
Hawaii is always going to be the best I’m the west besides California. It makes sense, they live on an island with nothing to do all day so they just play ball 😂
@trevster really? That team looks like 11-12 year olds. Lancaster has a bad peach fuzz mustache, but I remember 12-13 yo kids growing up with the same poor judgment in shaving. And the one big kid has a baby face.
Those Texas kids were pretty big too, when Hawaii starts winning then it’s, they look older and bigger even though some teams had bigger players then Hawaii or about the same size.
Fish and Poi, I'm a big boy. Lomi salmon, pipikaula, extra large lilikoi. Squid or chicken luau, don't forget the laulau. Beef or tripe stew, just to name a few.
Ok, the umps are volunteers. Yeah, but the poor kids have to go up to the plate not knowing when a pitch will be a strike or a ball. Glad I'm not playing, I'd be upset.
For all the crybabies going on about Hawaii's size, look up the rosters: tallest Texas player is 6'0"; tallest Hawaii player is 5'10". The shortest Texas player is 5'0"; shortest Hawaii player is 4'9". The average height of both teams is 5'6". So it's not about size, it's about talent.
size eventually keeps Hawaii kids out of MLB... if they all were 5-11 to 6-2.. wed have 150 in MLB today... most kids like IKF Wong Victorino are too small and are overlooked often early on... even Ichiro played ball here in Hilo back in the early 1990s because we are his kine of baseball... CONTACT CONTACT and perfect Fundamentals! iow strong arms strike throwing and no hitters whiffing! old school Joe Sewell Joe DiMaggio kine.... aloha
To be fair, all the kids in recent LLWS are better then the kids in the 90s…and I played in HI in the 90s and went to the Western region tournament. Many things have changed: coaching, equipment, (to some extent) earlier specialization, access to watching quality baseball, and I’m probably missing other things. Point is: that was 30 years ago. You could honestly say that same thing about any other youth sport in any other state or country.
@@ichiro85 Early specialization and year round leagues are huge. In the 90s, the best athletes played baseball, basketball and football. Hardly anyone specialized. My son is 12, the majority specialize, and very few play multiple sports.
@@hawaiiantime6596 exactly. I played soccer in the fall and baseball in the spring. And I would’ve continued both thru HS if it weren’t for politics. I even mixed in some judo too. It’s sad bc you build overall better “athletes” by playing different sports. Didn’t LeBron (youth athlete of the 90s) grow up playing those same 3 sports?
@@ichiro85 I agree. My son was doing club baseball and club soccer for two years. You can see how the kids that specialize in one or the other had certain advantages... My son is 12. After an injury to his lower leg, we were out for a year. We are currently only doing baseball. We were in the Little League State Tournament. Still the toughest tournament that Honolulu has seen this summer.
Hawaii and maybe Canada are the only two teams that actually look like they have a full 9 who knows how to play baseball. The rest is slightly horrible to watch.
Call me stupid, but I just realized why Hawaii is always so good. Their best players always have to play little league, since they would be no point in playing travel or anything else, since you know, they’re isolated from everyone else anyway. It would be way too costly for them to go to the mainland and play against other great players and teams.
That's what I tell everybody as my reason for picking Hawaii. Plus Hawaii just gets their bats on the ball all the time and makes you play great D, which most teams can't do. Great approach.
Historically, Hawaii teams were majority of Asian descent meaning we were smaller than everyone else and couldn’t compete for power/speed, so fundamentals (contact hitting/fielding/throwing strikes) were super important (think all the Taiwanese and Japanese teams of the past). And those coaching values have carried over with the bigger,stronger mixed-race kids we have here now. So: contact+strength=bombs, control+speed and height=Ks. It seems to be a golden time for our kids, but I’m still super impressed with how polished a lot of the other kids have been. I think I saw a kid from Indiana using a wood bat (did I really see that right?).
@@hawaiiantime6596 so that black and brown Victus he was swinging today wasn’t wood? It had the cut out window In the paint like they do to signify a maple bat.
Hawaii is by far the best team on the American side this year and maybe the best team out of everyone (including the international teams) Chinese Taipei and Mexico are the only real threats to Hawaii.
So the entire state of Hawaii has five LL districts? I don't get it. Just the city of Anaheim Calif has 5. They are getting teams they can stack with talent with only 5 districts in the entire state.
More kids play club baseball, Cal Ripken, Pony and independent leagues like Manoa, COBA and HIBA. Ripken had more Major s12 year old teams on Oahu, than Little League had. 2-1 ratio.
California has 72 Districts. Anaheim is in District 30, which is Anaheim and Santa Ana. The combined population of Anaheim/Santa Ana is around 700,000. Hawaii has 5 Districts. The area within the Honolulu District (from Kalihi to Hawaii Kai) has a population around 350,000. So no, Hawaii is not drawing from a bigger pool to stack the team.
@@craighutto4436 There is only a million residents in Hawaii, so yeah, all of California would be loaded. Would be interesting. My son was in the state tournament here. The games were closer than you would think. Honolulu was actually loosing in one game until the opposing pitcher ran out of pitches. This is a very talented birth year, 2010. The most talented pitcher in my opinion wasn't on this Honolulu team. It was Kai Watanabe of Maui. Taking a hypothetical, I think Watanabe, Sakamoto and Lancaster still holds teams down to 5 points a game. Just the physics of their pitching talent. Can you stop them from getting 6 points? I personally think Hawaii is easily in the top 10.
Oh here we go they were screwed by umps tears. No they didn't pitch good enough or hit good enough to win. If they were screwed by umps the pitcher would have to throw in the dirt everytime and a strike being thrown. Umps are to easy to blame. Blame the kids they lost
Yeah, the score would have been 10-0 Hawaii, Mercy rule with the game stopped if the um didn't make bad calls against Hawaii. The game was over after Hawaii first inning home run. I didn't see Texas getting on base and if they did, they wouldn't get pass second base. Hawaii got to much Mana for Texas.
The thing why I think Hawaii teams have been so strong is the low amount of Little League Districts vs the population for instance Honolulu with a population of 350,000 is one district, district 6.
The rule change from 2018 that allowed you to play where you to school, instead of just where you are from, is a bigger reason... All those private schools... Honolulu sucked before that rule change.
what about Waipahu in 2008, Ewa in 2005, Wailuku 2016, Hilo 2011, Peal City 2007, Aiea 2001, etc. etc. she dont all live Honolulu... Im 250 miles from the city...
California has 72 Districts, and a population of around 40 million. That means -- on average -- over 500,000 population per California District. So no, Hawaii does not have some "unfair" advantage because of District size.
Hawaii is always good in the LLWS but there’s never any good Hawaiian players in college except maybe Ahuna. I know travel ball is where the better kids play I guess Hawaii puts their best kids in Little league
Hawaii looks like high schoolers playing kids. Whoever trained their bats did an amazing job. They sit back on pitches as well or better than anybody I’ve seen in this tournament over the years, and it’s team wide.
It’s the same coaches from the 2018 championship team. The Oda brothers are GREAT coaches!!
@@Puaspapa props to those guys. They have these kids hitting like machines.
@@EveryTimeIDavid i played for these guys and so did my older brother. My brother and these coaches won the cal ripken world series in 2005. They faced Trevor Gott from the brewers in the US championship and he was throwing 83 at 12 years old from 46 ft. Cal Ripken pushed their mounds back the following year because of it
texas a good team but hawaii steps ahead of everyone else
Yeah they have it all. Great hitting, fielding, and depth in pitching.
Gonna be Hawaii and Mexico.
I see Hawaii Tennessee championship
@@backupdriver6354 Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised to see Chinese Taipei win it all this year. No one's really talking about them. It's all Mexico and Hawaii.
Chinese Taipei lost their first game 1-2 to Korea back in Taipei city... Korea outscored opponents 27-2 aside from that game. Since that loss, they've had 6 straight shutouts going 41-0 vs opponents. They don't hit as much as a team like Mexico who has 65 runs since the LLS started or 54 like Hawaii. But their defense and pitching is incredibly good compared to the 18 runs Mexico has let up and the 6 that Hawaii has (against worse teams imo).
Not to mention the Chinese Taipei junior team going 5-0 in their tournament, outscoring opponents 61-1 this year. (Beating everyone by double digits until the championship)
Either way, I hope the best team wins, and I'm excited to see the matchups today. I expect them to be close games!
@@robertdemoss I see Hawaii vs Chinese Taipei for the title. They seem like the two best teams
Can't wait to see Hawaii vs. Tennessee. Love both teams but it hurts to know that hawaii will beat tennessee :(
Hawaii gonna win it all
Tennessee is
@@jhsports mexico is the only exception 😁😁😁
@@JJA-ri4op don't hate cause Texas got stomped by Hawaii. We all know you are a Texas fan gal.
We all know you’re a Hawaii Fan Gal
Fun fact: Hawaii has outscored their opponents 29-1 over three games of the LLWS
They also allowed just 2 hits over those 3 games
Hey every dog has its day! The bigger they are the harder the fall! Never lose faith just play your best!! Both teams didn’t get to that game without the hard work! Let’s go Hawaii!! Hehehe🤙🏾
Hawaii should not be playing in U.S. bracket!
@@jaysantos536 why not? Please elaborate
@@jaysantos536 I’m order for that to happen native Hawaiians need to be given our land back. We all know that won’t happen so they’re gonna stay in the U.S bracket as long as we’re apart of the united states
my man Vonn Fe'ao from the 2005 Hawaii team still has one of the best cannon's and sticks that I have seen from a little leaguer. I hope that guy is doing ok now. He had a lotta potential. A fierce competitor and a hell of an athlete.
Keep in mind one of the reasons why Hawaii teams are usually good is that we get to play all year around. We only have two seasons: HOT and NOT AS HOT. You can find baseball leagues playing any time, even December-March. It is rare that a game gets rained out, too. This is probably the same reason why teams from Central America also do well. Hawaii is on the same latitude as Mexico City.
Some of our best players never played year round baseball. Victorino played Football and track. Kolten Wong played football.
True but these days kids in almost every area have access to high-tech indoor facilities and are able to train year-round. Here in WA kids they have $100,000 video pitching machines and professional coaches.
If you guys actually READ carefully, I did say it's just ONE possible reason. Nothing is absolute.
s pang you have a point. Florida and California have many MLB players. It’s not hot here in Hawaii. Central Florida is hot and humid. Living in Japan for many years they play baseball year round and not in a cozy indoor warm environment. These Hawaii kids are good very good
@@waikikisurfingschool270 We play soccer and tennis year round also, but we suck.
Hawaii got pitchers on the bench that barely pitch, that can start on most other teams
Lancaster looks 14. I didn't think Hawaii people were generally big people?
@@jimmyhorsefly9304 Polynesians are actually pretty big people, the Roc, Jason Mamoa. Akebono is a Hawaiian who went to Japan to be a champion sumo wrestler in the 90s. He's 6'8 500 lbs.
If that's true then they've already won. We all know they can hit, if they have pitching depth then it's all over.
Also, idk what this other guy is talking about. Please don't hurt me.
@@jimmyhorsefly9304 you thought wrong. A lot of the kids on this team are actually pretty average to small here. Or at least some of them are kind of tall, but they don't have the bulk that a lot of Polynesian kids have.
For instance, my nephew plays little league for a city outside of Honolulu, he's 5'7" and 170 lbs, as a 12 going on 13 year old. When I was in 6th grade, there were a bunch of Samoan kids in my class, and they were approaching 6 feet tall and nearly 200 pounds.
It's also not a great sample, because they're the Honolulu All-stars, they're the biggest, fastest, strongest kids from all over O'ahu.
@@sntslilhlpr6601 Their top 2 are special. Sniffen is their next best, but he has had command issues since the State Tournament. Get them out of Lancaster and Sakamoto, then you will have a chance. Watson and Hiramoto are the next best. They are solid, but they are not top tier.
Hawaii is no doubt one of the most dominate teams in llws and that world
The ump’s strike zone went down to the ankles a few times.
She definitely got paid off
@@JJA-ri4op stick to softball my Texas gal.
I’ll stick to whatever I want too 🤡
@@JJA-ri4op You seem to know softball better than baseball. Your predictions are usually wrong.
eh, maybe some of those pitches crossed at the knees, but they looked low due to the way the catcher caught the ball
Said it on their first video, Hawaii can RAKE 💣
Great game. Watching from London UK.
What percentage of these kids grow up to play MLB ?
for those saying Honolulu is huge... fwiw, Honolulu is smaller than Bakersfield CA... and what about Waipahu in 2008, Ewa in 2005, Wailuku 2016, Hilo 2011, Peal City 2007, Aiea 2001, etc. etc. we dont all live Honolulu... Im 250 miles from the city... we have 49 people per sq mile in my town... aloha
Hawaii no ka oi leeeets gooooo 🤙🏽🤙🏽
6:34. That pitch was dirty!! 🔥
Mahalo for the highlights wheels!
Hawaii is a great team
What country is that West team from?
HAWAII BOYS MAKING SOME NOISE !!!
I wanna see Curacao and Hawaii go at it💯💯
Blow out
Ya hawaii smacked them
I can’t believe leaving early on a tag up isn’t reviewable.
Did anyone else see the Texas 3B fist bump the Hawaii player on the first HR?
Happens all the time in LLWS
Good sportsmanship?
Yep really good sportsmanship in the Little League in general.
Hawaii loves baseball because it is our national pastime. I've lived in 5 States and my kids have played baseball, football, and soccer in all of them including Hawaii. FACT: There are more 12U baseball clubs on the island of Oahu, (Honolulu County), per household than any other county in the USA with tournaments every weekend year round. All of the kids in Hawaii that were defeated by Honolulu, or wanted a piece of them and didn't make it that far in the state tournament are out practicing and playing right now trying figure one of two things: How to beat them next year so we can make it to the LLWS, or if they live or go to school in Honolulu, how do I get good enough to make their team so we can win the LLWS next year.
No they just peak young and suck once they 70 lbs heads don’t let them grow. They suck.
I think Hawaii has been so good because most mainland players have moved on to travel ball, while Little League still dominates the islands. Meaning the best mainland players play Travel Ball while the best Hawaiian players play Little League.
I'd argue Hawaii's best players don't even play Little League. We play PONY League and have been stealing bases since 10 years old. So stop with your lame excuses lol
@@_STNML All the kids you're watching from Hawaii played 50/70 and we're taking leads, stealing bases, pitching from the stretch. They bring it in around May, get use to the smaller diamond, and go crush it.
Best Hawaii players play Cal Ripken
@@_STNMLi doubt that lmao
love the respect at 1:25
That kid landcaster is so good
He’s ight
Angel Hernandez's sister was behind the plate tonight
Yes indeed and she got paid well
Texas made Hawaii chase after every ball... Good game but Hawaii on top!
bro what
@@cadelovesyou4924 bro what what?
The homeplate ump was definitely high while umping the game
I would love to see hawaii face a team like 2012 japan or even like one of those teams that were crazy back then. dont even mention the 13 year olds
maybe even that 2009 california team from chula vista that won it all
@@vesqx4978 That would be an unreal game. If it were 2009 I'd still take chula vista but if it was played by todays rules then probably this Hawai'i team.
@@hokupidot3346 what is diff about todays rules vs 2009’s?
@@chanfam6365 the bats that 2009 team had are illegal today. Those red Easton stealths had unreal pop. Different bat regulations really make a major difference at the llws in terms of home runs
@@chanfam6365 Bats and Age limits. Before 2019, 13 year olds could play at the Majors level, and the majority were 13 and not 12 like they are now. Huge difference.
So that game you posted texas was not in the finals?
That SS for Hawaii is the best player in the tourney!
Idk the ss from Tennessee is special
@@tylerseto all around hitting and pitching in taking Hawaii kid
2:08 you’re telling me they call all those outside pitches all game and then don’t call that 😂
Hawaii is fun team to watch
So proud, so very proud! Hawaii no-ka-oi!
This Hawaii team is together out scoring their opponents 29 to 1? Whoah!
The Hawaii team is not playing fair, I know for a fact that they are feeding their players poi. They put sugar in the poi to make them eat it.
9:39 How are umpires not held accountable for calls like these?
cause its little league, they want bats to be swinging
I watched that pitch 4 times. That was no where inside the strike zone
Because they're volunteers
Hawaii hotdogging like crazy
Home plate umpire was very inconsistent
9:43 yiiiiikeeeesssss
Gonna need a perfect game to stop Hawaii damn they're good
Hawaii vs Mexico in the championship I’m calling it mow
Predictable
7:25 - no, he didn't leave early
i get the fact that the umps are volunteers but my god i have never seen such bad umping ever lmao even when they go to the booth and review something they still seem to get the calls wrong smh
Good Job Hawaiian, Native's 2 Da Hawaii.
Iowa is about to stomp on Texas I can’t wait😁
Hawaii is cracked
ʻae
3 wins with the opponent only getting 2 hits...wow💯🤘🏼🤙🏽
Finally a game without questionable umpiring! gg
wym the umpiring was absolutely embarrassing for little league as a organization
So False
Thx, Wheels.
lol all these people hating have never met Hawaiians. Islanders are always pretty big people and usually hit their max size earlier based on the ones i knew
And Hawaiian's are AMERICANS! People seem to forget that too!
@@6412mars yes exactly! Feel like alot of these people are just in areas where theyve never been near american islanders. Especially texas fans i guess lol
@@drewbiet5837 I've got a nephew playing for Tennessee...I'm sorry to say that the Hawaiian team will beat them too..but I won't talk bad about them.
@@6412mars im just hoping for a good game. I wanna see hawaii get tested a bit.
@@drewbiet5837 I am too...I'm behind the fellas 100% ..I sure hope I'm wrong about the outcome
They need to extend the walls by 30 feet kids are getting more advanced
The ump isn't even over home plate. She is off to the side of it
Why has Hawaii been so good in recent years?
They have only 5 districts in the state. So they can pick out of a larger pool of kids. Orange County Calif has over 30 districts so the talent thins out.
Weather to play year round
@2:09 that was a strike 3 . They don’t need a woman behind the plate he’s outta there. Bad ump
Why is almost every game this year a blowout? Japan v Nicaragua feels like it was the only exciting game. It’s boring when the scores are alway 6-0, 10-0, ect
I feel like all of Tennessee's games have been really good (even the 5-2 win over Indiana they were tied in the bottom of the 6th with bases loaded and no outs). Indiana's games before they played Pennsylvania were good.
9:42 oh man… 😂
What does Hawaii feed those kids?
Texsa runner was safe by a mile.
Hawaii is crazy
Ok the women behind the plate needs to stay out in the field. She was pinching the Texas Pitchers. I think she warned the Texas bench for barking at her.
Hawaii is always going to be the best I’m the west besides California. It makes sense, they live on an island with nothing to do all day so they just play ball 😂
Hawaii is so OP lol
the fact 9:41 was called a strike is just sad lmao
HI def going to the world series
Hawaii vs Mexico would be a good close game I think
Texas had no chance!
Texas wins the rematch
@@vnthony2439 Yeah focus on the losers bracket and make it out on top because some Iowa fans talking about stomping Texas.
@@wryZcrazy u said what :p
@@vnthony2439 I said focus on the game. You guys got stomped by Tennessee. Lol
@@wryZcrazy lol classic I missed u when they stomped Iowa then PA
What do they feed those kids in Hawaii? They look bigger and older.
Lots of rice and lots of meat and fish.
If it's not rice, it's poi, and if it's not either of those, you're not in Hawai'i anymore.
Used to have some of the freshest water on the planet
Also there's the mana
@trevster really? That team looks like 11-12 year olds. Lancaster has a bad peach fuzz mustache, but I remember 12-13 yo kids growing up with the same poor judgment in shaving. And the one big kid has a baby face.
Those Texas kids were pretty big too, when Hawaii starts winning then it’s, they look older and bigger even though some teams had bigger players then Hawaii or about the same size.
Fish and Poi, I'm a big boy. Lomi salmon, pipikaula, extra large lilikoi. Squid or chicken luau, don't forget the laulau. Beef or tripe stew, just to name a few.
This Hawaii team is legit.
They are the favorites to win it . they should be legit
@@eyesee3516 Thanks info.
Cheeehooooo!!
Ok, the umps are volunteers. Yeah, but the poor kids have to go up to the plate not knowing when a pitch will be a strike or a ball. Glad I'm not playing, I'd be upset.
9:40 ump needs a fresh pair of glasses. every year they get worse lol
Down 4-0 in the 5th with two on and you don't lay out for a fly ball? Unacceptable
Has there ever been 2 no hitters in the same day?
THANKS WHEELS!! Hawaii the team to beat!!!
For all the crybabies going on about Hawaii's size, look up the rosters: tallest Texas player is 6'0"; tallest Hawaii player is 5'10". The shortest Texas player is 5'0"; shortest Hawaii player is 4'9". The average height of both teams is 5'6". So it's not about size, it's about talent.
West is best!
Hawaii is loaded
Isn’t this the same Texas team that got beat by Asian pacific?? How they make it here
That was Corpus Christi first off, this is Pearland. Second, that was a different level within Little League
But can they beat Mexico?
Sometimes it’s hard to believe these are all 10-12 year olds.
Hawaii certainly is not
@@JJA-ri4op they are I’m same school as Lancaster he is 7th grade I’m freshman and 6’1
@@JJA-ri4op This isn't softball my Texas softball fan gal.
Wry = Hawaii Fan Girl
Once again they’re not in the age limit no matter what you believe
HAWAII!
size eventually keeps Hawaii kids out of MLB... if they all were 5-11 to 6-2.. wed have 150 in MLB today... most kids like IKF Wong Victorino are too small and are overlooked often early on... even Ichiro played ball here in Hilo back in the early 1990s because we are his kine of baseball... CONTACT CONTACT and perfect Fundamentals! iow strong arms strike throwing and no hitters whiffing! old school Joe Sewell Joe DiMaggio kine.... aloha
I lived in Hawaii for four years and they weren't this good at baseball in the 1990's.
To be fair, all the kids in recent LLWS are better then the kids in the 90s…and I played in HI in the 90s and went to the Western region tournament. Many things have changed: coaching, equipment, (to some extent) earlier specialization, access to watching quality baseball, and I’m probably missing other things. Point is: that was 30 years ago. You could honestly say that same thing about any other youth sport in any other state or country.
@@ichiro85 Early specialization and year round leagues are huge. In the 90s, the best athletes played baseball, basketball and football. Hardly anyone specialized. My son is 12, the majority specialize, and very few play multiple sports.
@@hawaiiantime6596 exactly. I played soccer in the fall and baseball in the spring. And I would’ve continued both thru HS if it weren’t for politics. I even mixed in some judo too. It’s sad bc you build overall better “athletes” by playing different sports. Didn’t LeBron (youth athlete of the 90s) grow up playing those same 3 sports?
@@ichiro85 I agree. My son was doing club baseball and club soccer for two years. You can see how the kids that specialize in one or the other had certain advantages... My son is 12. After an injury to his lower leg, we were out for a year. We are currently only doing baseball. We were in the Little League State Tournament. Still the toughest tournament that Honolulu has seen this summer.
Hawaii winning it I been telling since the beginning lol go look. it’s gonna be Tennessee or iowa against Hawaii then Chinese tapai and Mexico
Hawaii and maybe Canada are the only two teams that actually look like they have a full 9 who knows how to play baseball. The rest is slightly horrible to watch.
Call me stupid, but I just realized why Hawaii is always so good. Their best players always have to play little league, since they would be no point in playing travel or anything else, since you know, they’re isolated from everyone else anyway. It would be way too costly for them to go to the mainland and play against other great players and teams.
That's what I tell everybody as my reason for picking Hawaii. Plus Hawaii just gets their bats on the ball all the time and makes you play great D, which most teams can't do. Great approach.
Hawaii's best players play Cal Ripken. Most of these players are first year Little League.
Historically, Hawaii teams were majority of Asian descent meaning we were smaller than everyone else and couldn’t compete for power/speed, so fundamentals (contact hitting/fielding/throwing strikes) were super important (think all the Taiwanese and Japanese teams of the past). And those coaching values have carried over with the bigger,stronger mixed-race kids we have here now. So: contact+strength=bombs, control+speed and height=Ks. It seems to be a golden time for our kids, but I’m still super impressed with how polished a lot of the other kids have been. I think I saw a kid from Indiana using a wood bat (did I really see that right?).
@@ichiro85 The new USA Bats have wood bat like performance. The sweet spot would be larger on a USA bat, but exit velocity will be similar.
@@hawaiiantime6596 so that black and brown Victus he was swinging today wasn’t wood? It had the cut out window In the paint like they do to signify a maple bat.
Hawaii is by far the best team on the American side this year and maybe the best team out of everyone (including the international teams) Chinese Taipei and Mexico are the only real threats to Hawaii.
Hawaii’s built different
As a native-born Texan who used to play baseball when I was those kids age that's got to be the ugliest freaking uniform colors I've ever seen
Watch out Hawaii they are gonna come after y'all like they did Chicago
home plate ump sucks wow
I need this Hawaii team to use orange makos
Cheehoo let's go Hawaii!!
Hawaii vs Mexico
Predictable
the female umpire was horrible
So the entire state of Hawaii has five LL districts? I don't get it. Just the city of Anaheim Calif has 5. They are getting teams they can stack with talent with only 5 districts in the entire state.
More kids play club baseball, Cal Ripken, Pony and independent leagues like Manoa, COBA and HIBA. Ripken had more Major s12 year old teams on Oahu, than Little League had. 2-1 ratio.
In reality, if you took the best 14-15 players in each state and stacked them on one team, Hawaii would not likely be in the top 10.
California has 72 Districts. Anaheim is in District 30, which is Anaheim and Santa Ana. The combined population of Anaheim/Santa Ana is around 700,000. Hawaii has 5 Districts. The area within the Honolulu District (from Kalihi to Hawaii Kai) has a population around 350,000. So no, Hawaii is not drawing from a bigger pool to stack the team.
@@craighutto4436 There is only a million residents in Hawaii, so yeah, all of California would be loaded. Would be interesting. My son was in the state tournament here. The games were closer than you would think. Honolulu was actually loosing in one game until the opposing pitcher ran out of pitches. This is a very talented birth year, 2010. The most talented pitcher in my opinion wasn't on this Honolulu team. It was Kai Watanabe of Maui. Taking a hypothetical, I think Watanabe, Sakamoto and Lancaster still holds teams down to 5 points a game. Just the physics of their pitching talent. Can you stop them from getting 6 points? I personally think Hawaii is easily in the top 10.
And they got screwed by the umps
Texas certainly was
Oh here we go they were screwed by umps tears. No they didn't pitch good enough or hit good enough to win. If they were screwed by umps the pitcher would have to throw in the dirt everytime and a strike being thrown. Umps are to easy to blame. Blame the kids they lost
Hawaii got a bad call too. That kid tagged up and was called out for leaving early, play was called “un reviewable”.
Yeah, the score would have been 10-0 Hawaii, Mercy rule with the game stopped if the um didn't make bad calls against Hawaii. The game was over after Hawaii first inning home run. I didn't see Texas getting on base and if they did, they wouldn't get pass second base. Hawaii got to much Mana for Texas.
The thing why I think Hawaii teams have been so strong is the low amount of Little League Districts vs the population for instance Honolulu with a population of 350,000 is one district, district 6.
The rule change from 2018 that allowed you to play where you to school, instead of just where you are from, is a bigger reason... All those private schools... Honolulu sucked before that rule change.
what about Waipahu in 2008, Ewa in 2005, Wailuku 2016, Hilo 2011, Peal City 2007, Aiea 2001, etc. etc. she dont all live Honolulu... Im 250 miles from the city...
California has 72 Districts, and a population of around 40 million. That means -- on average -- over 500,000 population per California District. So no, Hawaii does not have some "unfair" advantage because of District size.
Hawaii is always good in the LLWS but there’s never any good Hawaiian players in college except maybe Ahuna. I know travel ball is where the better kids play I guess Hawaii puts their best kids in Little league
We just sadly peak at little league cause we all end up 5’8 😂😂
@germx99 That would make you one inch taller than me