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Williamsport / 27.08.2023 16:21:12
Louis Lappe hit a home run in the final inning as California beat Curaçao 6-5 on Sunday, taking the overall 2023 Little League World Series (LLWS) championship despite giving up a four-game lead. careers.
Louis twirled his bat and threw his arms in the air as he jogged around the bases, leaping to the plate before being greeted by his teammates waiting in the batter’s box. Louis, hitting leadoff in the bottom of the sixth inning, hit the second pitch he saw over the left-field fence.
Curaçao tied the game in the fifth on a Nasir El-Ossais grand slam up the middle. Nasir also drove in a run in the third.
This was the first trip to the finals for the team from El Segundo, a community in the Los Angeles area. California’s eight titles are the most for any US state.
Curaçao, a small island off the coast of Venezuela that is home to just 150,000 people, has represented the international side of the group in the championship the last three times non-American teams have competed, in 2019, 2022 and this 2023, but have lost. on all three occasions.
There was no tournament in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2021 tournament was limited to US teams due to global travel restrictions.
For this edition, Curaçao returned with five players and their coaching staff from the team that lost the 2022 final to Hawaii.
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