2009 Little League World Series

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The 2009 Little League World Series was the 63rd Little League World Series and the fifth in a row won by a team from the United States of America. 2009 was the last year of a round robin Pool Play. 2010 would introduce double elimination Pool Play.

Participants[edit]

United States Teams International Teams
Region City League Region City League
Great Lakes Flag of Kentucky.svg Russellville, KY Logan County/Russellville Little League Asia-Pacific Chinese Taipei Olympic Flag.gif Taoyuan County Kuei-Shan Little League
Mid-Atlantic Flag of New York.svg Staten Island, NY South Shore Little League Canada Flag of Canada.jpg Vancouver, BC Hastings Little League
Midwest Flag of Iowa.svg Urbandale, IA Urbandale Little League Caribbean NetherlandsAntilles.JPG Willemstad Pabao Little League
New England Flag of Massachusetts.svg Peabody, MA Peabody Western Little League Europe-Africa Flag of Germany.jpg Ramstein Air Force Base KMC American Little League
Northwest Flag of Washington.svg Mercer Island, WA Mercer Island Little League Japan Flag of Japan.gif Chiba City Chiba City Little League
Southeast Flag of Georgia (US state).svg Warner Robins, GA Warner Robins American Little League Latin America Flag of Venezuela.gif Maracaibo Coquivacoa Little League
Southwest Flag of Texas.svg San Antonio, TX McAllister Park American Little League Mexico Flag of Mexico.gif Tamaulipas Guadalupe Trevino Kelly Little League Reynosa
West Flag of California.svg Chula Vista, CA Parkview Little League Transatlantic Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Dhahran Arabian American Little League

Results[edit]

August 21[edit]

August 22[edit]

August 23[edit]

August 24[edit]

  • Warner Robins, GA 3, Mercer Island, WA 2. Down 2-1 in the 6th, Warner Robins rallied when Kyle King is hit by a pitch, advances on two wild pitches and comes home on a passed ball. Jake Farrell walked, stole, took third on the passed ball and came home on a Brandon Lawler wild pitch.
  • Willemstad 5, Dhahran 3. Hardel Martina fans 11 and Junters Dossett cracks a 2-run homer.
  • Staten Island, NY 8, Urbandale, IA 3. Michael Rapaglia strikes out 7 and Vincent Quinn delivers a 3-run blast.
  • Chiba, Chiba 5, Maracaibo 4. In the 6th, Toshinori Wakai is hit by a pitch. Naoto Ogura singles through the middle and CF Oberto Munoz's throw to third bounces off Wakai's helmet. That gives Wakai the chance to break for home with the winning run.
  • Reynosa, Tamaulipas 13, Ramstein Air Force Base (Germany) 0. Reynosa tkaes advantage of seven errors. Oscar Noguera allows one hit and picks up two of hiis own at the plate. Raul Rojas has 3 doubles and 3 runs for Mexico.

August 25[edit]

August 26[edit]

August 27[edit]

  • Taoyuan County 5, Willemstad 2. Chin Ou tosses a shutout into the sixth, fanning 8 with a good curveball. Claycandy Hariquez strikes out 11 in a loss.
  • Chula Vista, CA 11, Warner Robins, GA 10. Down by five, California rallies to tie in the fifth on a homer by Andy Rios. In the 6th, Chula Vista loaded the bases with none out against Conner Smith, who then threw a wild pitch scoring Nick Conlin with the winner.

August 29[edit]

  • Taoyuan County 9, Reynosa, Tamaulipas 4. Six Mexican errors help Taiwan make the finals for the first time since 1996. Wen Hua Sung goes the distance and Chin Ou delivers a key 2-run double.
  • Chula Vista, CA 12, San Antonio, TX 2. San Antonio loses its only game of the year as Andy Rios hits a grand slam and Bulla Graft homers twice. Luke Ramirez homers and gives up just one hit.

August 30[edit]

  • Tamaulipas 5, San Antonio, TX 4 (Consolation game)
  • Chula Vista, CA 6, Taoyuan County 3. Taiwan goes ahead 3-0 on third-inning homers by Wen Hua Sung and Chin Ou. California scores once in the third. In the 4th, Bulla Graft's single puts the US ahead 4-3. They tack on two insurance runs and Kiko Garcia tosses 3+ shutout relief innings.

Bracket[edit]

Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
                         
 Tamaulipas 6  
 Chiba City 0  
   Tamaulipas 4  
   Taoyuan 9  
 Taoyuan 5
 Willemstad 2  
     Taoyuan 3
   Chula Vista, CA 6
 San Antonio, TX 4  
 Staten Island, NY 1  
   San Antonio, TX 2
   Chula Vista, CA 12  
 Chula Vista, CA 11
 Warner Robins, GA 10  



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