Curaçao beat Nevada 11-2 to win the Little League World Series. Full recap and how it happened.
Pariba Little League of Willemstad finished the tournament 6-0. It's the island's first title since 2004.
Updated Sunday, Aug. 30 at 7:00 p.m. ET with the championship result.
Sunday, Aug. 30
Curaçao 11, Nevada 2 — Championship. Shardijon De Lanoi's two-run single tied it in the second, Jaymiëll Martina doubled Curaçao ahead in the fourth, and Juriënsly De Windt cleared the bases in the fifth. Willemstad finished 6-0.
Japan 3, Ohio 2 — Consolation game. Hamilton led 2-0 on a Xander Kinkade double in the fourth. Tokyo scored three with two outs in the bottom of the sixth, the winning run scoring on a throwing error after Ayumu Hasegawa's bunt single.
Saturday's results
Curaçao 4, Japan 0 — Jaymiëll Martina struck out twelve. Japan came in with six home runs, most in the tournament, and got two hits. Curaçao scored three in the third on five bunts and three Japanese errors without a hit, then added one in the fourth when Martina doubled. Willemstad beat Japan twice in nine days.
Nevada 12, Ohio 2 — Henderson scored five in the second and four in the fifth to end it on the run rule. Brooks McFarland's two-run double started the last rally and Maddox Bryan drove in the run that ended it. Nevada beat Ohio on the first day of the tournament too, 6-5 on a walk-off. Attendance was 25,317.
Final standings
Champion: Curaçao — Pariba LL, Willemstad
Runner-up: Nevada — Paseo Verde LL, Henderson
Third: Japan — Joto LL, Tokyo
Fourth: Ohio — West Side LL, Hamilton
Also in Williamsport: Sydney, Brno, Santiago, Chiriquí, Boerne, Bridgewater, West Chester, Bonita, Tijuana, Tacoma, Seoul, Bayonne, Vancouver, Phenix City, León, Davenport.
Thursday's results
Japan 4, Nicaragua 1 — León struck first in the fourth on a José Martínez Padilla single that scored Jonathan Urroz Chávez. Tokyo answered in the bottom half when Shinnosuke Ijima singled home Kei Kawanishi. Then Japan put it away in the fifth: Rui Tobata doubled to left, scoring Sou Koyama and Ryunosuke Maeda, and Tensei Yazawa doubled to center to bring Tobata home. Ijima was Japan's only pitcher, throwing 87 pitches to 23 batters. Nicaragua eliminated.
Ohio 7, Iowa 1 — Hamilton scored four in the first. Jack McAdams singled home a run, then Bob Frazier tripled to right and cleared the bases. Hudson Vonderheide singled in another in the second. In the sixth, Josiah Infante singled and a left-field error let two more score. Davenport's only run came on a fielder's choice in the fifth. Hamilton out-hit Iowa 12-4. Iowa eliminated.
Both lost Saturday. Japan fell to Curaçao 4-0, Ohio to Nevada 12-2.
The other thing that happened this week
Canada lost 7-3 to Japan on Wednesday and went home, ending the best run by a Canadian team at the Little League World Series in nearly 30 years. Little Mountain of Vancouver beat Australia 4-0, Panama 3-2, and South Korea 5-1 before Japan ended it.
The part that traveled was center fielder Daniel Huang's answer on the standard Little League questionnaire. Under dream job, he put: retirement.
The clip picked up Friday and was on Jomboy Media, Barstool and TSN inside a day.
Karl Ravech, calling his last Little League World Series for ESPN, made a point on Foul Territory this week that lands differently now. When he started covering this tournament, Canada went 0-2 and flew home. This year Vancouver made it to Wednesday.
Huang gets his wish for about a week, until school starts.
The Rasmus family had been doing this in Williamsport since 1999
The best story in the U.S. bracket was in Phenix City, Alabama, and it ran four generations deep.
Kinley Rasmus threw a complete-game shutout in the Southeast regional final and didn't allow a run across nine innings in three regional games. She went 6-for-8 with two RBIs and four walks. In Williamsport she came within a few feet of becoming the first girl to homer in tournament history.
Her uncle is Colby Rasmus, 891 hits over ten major league seasons — and a member of the last Phenix City team to reach Williamsport, in 1999.
Look closely at that photo. The two boys in the stands are Cyle Rasmus, 10, and Casey Rasmus, 9, watching their older brothers play for the U.S. championship. The younger one was too small to be on that team.
Twenty-seven years later he was managing this one.
Her father, Cory, was on that same 1999 team and pitched in 84 games for the Braves and Angels. He taught her the curveball. He was an assistant coach on this year's squad.
The head coach is a third brother, Case, too young for 1999, who played four seasons of minor league ball. His son Ryker is Kinley's cousin and a teammate.
The 1999 team was coached by Tony Rasmus, Kinley's grandfather and a former Angels draft pick.
And it isn't only the father's side. Her mother Jill played softball at Southern Miss, and Jill's brother is Jeff Mathis, who caught for six organizations across 17 major league seasons — the longest career in the family.
Two Rasmuses on the 1999 roster with a Rasmus coaching. Two Rasmuses on the 2026 roster with a Rasmus coaching.
Phenix City's run ended Wednesday night, 11-2 to Hamilton. Ryker Rasmus caught. Cam Lee pitched in relief. (Family details via ESPN's J.J. Post.)
The Little League Classic
The major leagues came to Williamsport on Aug. 23 for the ninth annual Little League Classic. Atlanta beat Milwaukee at Journey Bank Ballpark at historic Bowman Field, with fans watching from scaffolding beyond the outfield fence and Rob Manfred in the stands. Players from the Dominican Republic and Hamilton, Ohio rode the bus to the complex with the Brewers that afternoon — Hamilton went on to lose the U.S. championship to Nevada.
Baseball without borders
An island of about 158,000 people just won the Little League World Series.
Curaçao produces twelve-year-olds who can pitch for the same reasons it produces major leaguers — Andruw Jones was elected to the Hall of Fame in July, the first player born there to make it, and Andrelton Simmons, Kenley Jansen, Didi Gregorius, Jurickson Profar, Ozzie Albies and Xander Bogaerts all came from the same place. Albies sang the national anthem in Williamsport this week.
The tournament is the clearest annual snapshot of where baseball actually lives, and it's free on basic cable for two weeks every August.
Schedule and team information via Little League. Final results through Sunday, Aug. 30.