{"id":204858,"date":"2019-08-26T15:49:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T19:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=204858"},"modified":"2019-08-26T15:49:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T19:49:25","slug":"cuba-panama-and-puerto-rico-with-direct-pass-to-little-leagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/cuba-panama-and-puerto-rico-with-direct-pass-to-little-leagues\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba, Panama and Puerto Rico with direct pass to Little Leagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuba will no longer depend exclusively on results to participate in the Little League World Series, after the International Board of Directors approved the expansion of the event, which year after year brings together hundreds of young players in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The expansion of 16 to 20 teams will be launched in 2021, and includes the emergence of two new competitive regions (Metro and Mountain) in the United States, as well as the automatic inclusion of two international teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuba is among those favored by the expansion, as it will rotate with Panama and Puerto Rico for direct inclusion in the World Series twice every three years. That is, the island will have a team competing in Williamsport no later than 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Little League Baseball\u00ae and Little League Softball\u00ae World Series to Expand in 2021 &#8211; Little League <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZOGzxGoxfn\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZOGzxGoxfn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Steve Keener (@littleleagueceo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/littleleagueceo\/status\/1165313309567905792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In turn, when the rotation does not correspond, the little Cubans can vie for a World Series spot in the Caribbean tournament, just as happened this year with their adventure in Willemstad, Curacao, where they came in third after the two host teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the new format announced by the Little Leagues, the order of rotation between Puerto Rico, Cuba and Panama will be determined next year in the usual framework of the World Series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this way, the three Central American and Caribbean nations will join the international continent that every year participates in the Little League World Series, made up of the regions of Asia-Pacific, Australia, Canada, Caribbean, Europe-Africa, Japan, Latin America and Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"JuGhonQtOG\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/deportes\/beisbol\/si-de-las-pequenas-ligas-se-trata\/\">Si de las Peque\u00f1as Ligas se trata<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"\u00abSi de las Peque\u00f1as Ligas se trata\u00bb \u2014 OnCubaNews\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/deportes\/beisbol\/si-de-las-pequenas-ligas-se-trata\/embed\/#?secret=vKL3S328Ym#?secret=JuGhonQtOG\" data-secret=\"JuGhonQtOG\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After several of the little Cubans\u2019 experiences more than 60 years ago, Cuba <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littleleague.org\/world-series\/2019\/llbws\/tournaments\/caribbean-regional\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">returned<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the Little League system this 2019, after the Cuban Baseball Federation <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jit.cu\/NewsDetails.aspx?idnoticia=108179\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">signed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a Memorandum of Understanding with the Little League Baseball International (LLBI).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/deportes\/beisbol\/cuba-firma-un-acuerdo-con-las-pequenas-ligas-de-beisbol-internacional\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">agreement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> included the participation of a team from the island in the Caribbean tournament, which was sealed with the assistance of Havana, national champion of the 11-12 category, to the regional Willemstad, Curacao, tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In spite of not getting the pass to the World Series, the Cuban team lived a historical chapter and finished with a global balance of six victories and three defeats in the regional tournament of the Caribbean, dominated by the Curacao teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Curacao precisely won the international key to the World Series and advanced to the finals, in which they will play this Sunday against Louisiana, winner for the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both teams recovered from defeats in the first phase and will now go for the crown. Louisiana, the first team to reach the championship game after being defeated in its debut, defeated Oregon, Minnesota, New Jersey, Virginia and Hawaii, its executioner at the debut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, the Curacao team lost its second game of the tournament against South Korea, but then they came out victorious against Canada, Venezuela, the South Koreans themselves and Japan, which they defeated with two spectacular homeruns by Curley Martha.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_204860\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204860\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/peque\u00d1as-ligas-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-204860\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/peque\u00d1as-ligas-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/peque\u00d1as-ligas-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/peque\u00d1as-ligas-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/peque\u00d1as-ligas-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/peque\u00d1as-ligas-1-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-204860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Curley Martha (12) of Curacao is congratulated on home plate by Deshandro Tromp and other teammates after hitting a homerun against Taishi Kawaguchi of Japan in the fifth inning of the international finals of the Little League World Series, in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, August 24, 2019. (AP Photo\/Tom E. Puskar)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*With information from The Associated Press<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba will no longer depend exclusively on results to participate in the Little League World Series, after the International Board of Directors approved the expansion of the event, which year after year brings together hundreds of young players in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. 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