The Little League Classic is over. The Tigers defeated the Yankees, 3-2, on Sunday night. Now that that's over, we can get back to what Williamsport is really all about: The best 12-year-old baseball players in the world at the 2024 Little League World Series .
Sunday brought a myriad of eliminations, but today will determine the four teams left standing in both the U.S. and international winners brackets. That's right: The winners of today's games will be just three straight wins away from the Little League World Series championship, where they will go head-to-head with the winners of the opposing bracket for Williamsport immortality.
Follow along live as we bring you scores, highlights, and the latest updates from today's LLWS games.
The starter is up to five strikeouts in two innings. He got one swinging and one looking before inducing a ground out to finish a 1-2-3 second inning. Japan still leads, 1-0, heading into the third.
A Taiyo Honryo double and Sho Tanaka walk preceded a Yuzuki Ozawa double that scored one run for Japan in the top of the second inning. Biarreta avoided any more trouble, but it's 1-0 Japan as the bottom of the second begins.
Iwashita, Japan's ace starting pitcher, gets two swinging strikeouts and a strikeout looking to work through a scoreless first inning. His only bit of trouble was a fly-ball double to center field that the fielder misplayed. This game is still knotted at zero through one.
Venezuela's starting pitcher threw 15 pitches and struck out a batter looking in a clean first inning.
The two teams have yet to lose in the international bracket in Williamsport. Something has to give with a trip to the international bracket's semifinal on the line.
Arnold Martha hammers a two-RBI double to the wall in left-center field, bringing in enough runs to hit the run-rule mark and walk it off for Aruba.
The Caribbean Region champions continue on in the elimination bracket and will play the loser of Monday's Japan-Venezuela game on Tuesday. Australia is eliminated with their second loss of the tournament.
An Antonie Croes single made it 9-0 Aruba, and it's late enough in the game for the 10-run rule to take effect. So with two runners on and one out in the bottom of the fourth, Dobb takes the mound for Australia.
Three wild pitches in a Diliano Raven at-bat end up allowing two more runs to score for Aruba. It's 8-0 for the Caribbean Region champs with still just one out in the fourth.
Toledo hammers a line drive right past Gainsford's head and into center field. It brings home another run for Aruba, which now leads 6-0.
Kransen is able to go inside-out on the second pitch he faces, knocking an opposite-field base hit to right field that brings home two runs. It's 5-0 Aruba.
Gainsford, the 23rd girl to ever play at the LLWS (and the only one this year), enters to pitch in the bottom of the fourth with the bases loaded and one out. She is the eighth girl to ever pitch at the LLWS.
Australia gets runners on the corners with two outs, but Croes keeps the shutout intact by inducing a ground out to first base to end the inning. It's still 3-0 Aruba.
Kennedy fouled off six straight pitches to survive an 0-2 count to lead of the fourth inning for Australia before knocking a base hit to center field for a single.
Two ground outs bookend a pop out from Aruban batters, giving Whittle his first 1-2-3 inning of the day in the bottom of the third.
Arnold Martha hits a 35-pitch limit carried over from Sunday, so Aruba's manager makes a pitching change. Martha finished with five strikeouts, no walks and one hit allowed in 2 2/3 innings. Antoine Croes enters in relief and strikes out the first batter he faces.
Excellent defense from Australia defined the bottom of the second inning. After a base hit and bunt single, Aruba had runners on first and second with no outs.
Then, Australian third baseman Ethan Cross dove to his right, snagging a ground ball before stepping on third for the first out. One batter later, Cross got another putout when catcher Fletcher Dobb threw out a runner trying to steal third. Pitcher Noah Whittle finished up the inning with a strikeout looking.
Sunday's suspended game resumed in the top of the second inning with two outs, a runner on first for Australia and an 0-2 count to Will Bennett. Aruba's pitcher, Arnold Martha, threw one pitch – a looking strike – to end the inning as the game resumes.
2024 Little League World Series: Time, TV, streaming and how to watch
All 39 games of the Little League World Series will be broadcast on one of ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC, with streaming options including ESPN+ , the ESPN app and Fubo , which offers a free trial. Coverage begins at 10 a.m. ET.
Stream the Little League World Series with Fubo (free trial)
The LLWS started with ten teams in both the international and U.S. brackets. Since the start of the LLWS, seven teams have been eliminated. That number should be eight, but due to weather delays during the elimination game between Aruba and Australia on Sunday, that game was suspended. That game will resume Monday.
As it stands, Aruba leads Australia, 3-0, in the top of the second inning.
The LLWS championship game is slated for Sunday, Aug. 25, at 3 p.m. ET. The third-place consolation game will take place the same day at 10 a.m. ET.
The international and U.S. championship games — which serve as the semifinals to Sunday's championship game — will take place on Saturday, Aug. 24 at 12:30 and 3:30 p.m. ET, respectively.
The Little League World Series is split into two brackets: the United States bracket and the international bracket. Each bracket will play out their own individual tournaments, with the winner from each bracket facing each other in the championship.
The U.S. and international brackets are double-elimination brackets, meaning a team must lose twice before it is eliminated from the tournament.
All times Eastern
- Australia 0 - 3 Australia, resumes in the top of the second inning at 10 a.m. | Volunteer Stadium | ESPN2
- Japan vs. Venezuela, 1 p.m. | Volunteer Stadium | ESPN
- Nevada vs. Hawaii, 3 p.m. | Lamade Stadium | ESPN
- Chinese Taipei vs. Cuba, 5 p.m. | Volunteer Stadium | ABC
- Florida vs. Texas, 7 p.m. | Lamade Stadium | ESPN
- Great Lakes - Hinsdale Little League - Hinsdale, Illinois
- Metro - South Shore Little League - Staten Island, New York
- Mid-Atlantic - Council Rock Newtown Little League - Newtown, Pennsylvania
- Midwest - Sioux Falls Little League - Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- Mountain - Paseo Verde Little League - Henderson, Nevada
- New England - Salem Little League - Salem, New Hampshire
- Northwest - South Hill Little League - Puyallup, Washington
- Southeast - Lake Mary Little League - Lake Mary, Florida
- Southwest - Boerne Little League - Boerne, Texas
- West - Central East Maui Little League - Wailuku, Hawaii
- Asia-Pacific - Kuei-Shan Little League - Taoyuan City, Chinese Taipei
- Australia - Hills Little League - Sydney, New South Wales
- Canada - Whalley Little League - Surrey, British Columbia
- Caribbean - Aruba Center Little League - Santa Cruz, Aruba
- Cuba - Santa Clara Little League - Villa Clara, Cuba
- Europe-Africa - South Czech Republic Little League - Brno, Czech Republic
- Japan - Johoku Little League - Tokyo, Japan
- Latin America - Cardenales Little League - Barquisimeto, Venezuela
- Mexico - Matamoros Little League - Tamaulipas, Mexico
- Puerto Rico - Radames Lopez Little League - Guayama, Puerto Rico
Teams from the United States have dominated the Little League World Series as of late, having won each of the last five dating back to 2017. The last international team to win the tournament was Japan, who beat Lufkin, Texas 12-2 in just five innings in the 2017 final.
List of past winners:
Results date back to 2010 LLWS.
- 2023: El Segundo, Calif.
- 2022: Honolulu
- 2021: Taylor, Mich.
- 2020: Canceled due to COVID
- 2019: River Ridge, La.
- 2018: Honolulu
- 2017: Tokyo
- 2016: Maine-Endwell, N.Y.
- 2015: Tokyo
- 2014: Seoul, South Korea
- 2013: Tokyo
- 2012: Tokyo
- 2011: Huntington Beach, Calif.
- 2010: Tokyo
Here is the full 2024 LLWS bracket, courtesy of the Little League World Series:
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