{"id":160963,"date":"2025-08-17T07:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T07:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/where-to-watch-southwest-tx-vs-new-england-ma-today-little-league-world-series-free-stream-syracuse-com\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T07:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T07:45:12","slug":"where-to-watch-southwest-tx-vs-new-england-ma-today-little-league-world-series-free-stream-syracuse-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/where-to-watch-southwest-tx-vs-new-england-ma-today-little-league-world-series-free-stream-syracuse-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to watch Southwest (TX) vs. New England (MA) today: Little League World Series free stream – Syracuse.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Both Texas and Massachusetts were shutout in their opening Little League World Series games. They\u2019ll face off Saturday at 3 p.m. ET<\/a> with elimination on the line for whoever loses the game.
Southwest vs. New England will air on ESPN, you can stream it on <\/b>DirecTV (free trial)<\/b><\/a>.<\/b>
Here\u2019s what you need to know:<\/b>
What:<\/b> Little League World Series
Who: <\/b>Southwest (Richmond, Texas) vs. New England (Braintree, Massachusetts)
When:<\/b> Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025
Where:<\/b> Howard J. Lamade Stadium, South Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Time:<\/b> 3 p.m. ET
TV:<\/b> ESPN
Live stream:<\/b> DirecTV (free trial)<\/a>, fuboTV<\/a>, Sling<\/a>, Hulu + Live TV<\/a>
All times listed in ET, all games <\/i>air on ESPN<\/i><\/a>
1 p.m. | Europe-Africa (Czechia) vs. Australia (Queensland)
3 p.m. | Southwest (TX) vs. New England (MA)
5 p.m. | Mexico (Chihuahua) vs. Puerto Rico (Yabucoa)
7 p.m. | Metro (CT) vs. West (HI)
Here\u2019s a recent Little League story via The Associated Press:<\/b>
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) \u2014 The road to Williamsport was filled with more drama than usual for a couple Little League World Series participants this year, including a Venezuelan team that needed visa exemptions to make the trip and an American club that narrowly knocked off a defending champ.
Baseball\u2019s preeminent youth baseball tournament resumes Wednesday in central Pennsylvania. The festivities begin with a look at what makes the 20-team event special.
ESPN is airing a documentary called \u201cBig Dreams: Little League World Series 2024\u201d on Tuesday night. The filmmakers had great raw material. Lake Mary, Florida, defeated Taiwan 2-1 in eight tense innings last August to win the title. But director Rudy Valdez wanted to go deeper than wins and losses.
\u201cThese are kids, you know, I want you to remember that,\u201d Valdez said. \u201cWe\u2019re showing them how to navigate life, and we\u2019re showing them how to take wins and take losses and be good sports and how to get back up when you fall.
\u201cWe have to give them the space to learn and I wanted that to be the feeling of this, that you were really navigating this year of the Little League World Series through the eyes and experiences of them.\u201d
The film was set to premiere Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. ET on ESPN and is available for streaming through ESPN+.
Venezuela travels to Williamsport on exemption from travel ban
Cardenales Little League from Barquimesto, Venezuela, will represent Latin America for the second straight year, but this time the team required a special exemption from President Donald Trump\u2019s travel ban. The team only learned of the exemption less than a week before its opening game Wednesday at 1 p.m. against Puerto Rico.
The team declined to comment.
Cardenales\u2019 exemption came after a different Venezuelan team was denied entry into the United States for the Senior Baseball World Series last month.
This year\u2019s Cardenales team has a different roster and coaching staff than the 2024 group. Last year\u2019s team survived two rounds in the elimination bracket to advance to the international final. It lost 4-1 to Taiwan but beat Texas for third place.
Venezuela only has two Little League World Series titles, the last 25 years ago.
The path to Williamsport include a notable US upset
Defending champion Lake Mary was one out away from making its return to central Pennsylvania, but there will be a different team representing the Southeast Region this year: South Carolina\u2019s Irmo Little League.
In the regional final, Irmo trailed 4-0 in the bottom of the sixth \u2014 the last inning in Little League ball \u2014 with the bottom of their lineup headed to the plate and the goal of getting Joe Giulietti, the team\u2019s best hitter, to bat.
Irmo succeeded but Joe never swung at a pitch. Lake Mary intentionally walked him with the bases loaded to make the score 4-2. Brady Westbrooks was up next and, down to his last strike, he found the fastball he was looking for, hammering a three-run double.
Players were running around the stadium, carrying the Southeast Region champions banner, while their manager, Dave Bogan, was brought to tears.
\u201cWhile we had confidence, we were the underdog,\u201d Bogan said. \u201cWhen this team was forming, there was a lot of local excitement about our potential and our possibilities. But with that excitement comes pressure and it was a sense of relief that we did it.\u201d
Lake Mary previously defeated Irmo 14-0, and before the regional final, Bogan told his players they needed to believe they were \u201cgoing to shock the Little League baseball world.\u201d
Irmo is only the fourth South Carolina team, and second since 1950, to play in South Williamsport. It\u2019ll play Braintree American Little League, the Massachusetts team representing the New England region, on Thursday.
\u201cOur motto is nothing is given, everything is earned and they really work hard to earn everything through this process,\u201d Bogan said. \u201cThey absolutely love to grind.\u201d
Taiwan tries to return to LLWS glory
Taiwan\u2019s 17 Little League World Series championships are the most by any country other than the United States, which always gets a team in the championship because of the way the LLWS brackets are set up.
But it has been nearly 30 years since Taiwan won its most recent title in 1996.
Ten years ago, current manager Min-Nan Lai\u2019s club went 2-2 in the tournament, losing its second game in the double-elimination tournament to Mexico.
Now, Lai is back with the Tung-Yuan Little League team after defeating South Korea in the Asia-Pacific regional final. The 2025 LLWS marks Taiwan\u2019s fourth consecutive and 33rd appearance in tournament history, and its first game will be against Mexico on Thursday.
The Little League World Series first-round bracket matchups were announced not long before the Asia-Pacific regional tournament, something Lai and his team noted. They wanted to get another chance at the team that ended Taiwan\u2019s chances 10 years ago.
\u201cA famous Taiwanese saying is you always want to do hard work for 10 years for one minute to shine,\u201d Lai said through an interpreter.
Tung-Yuan brings strong pitching to South Williamsport and Lai believes this is one of the best teams to represent Taiwan in recent history. Unlike last year\u2019s Taiwan club, his team doesn\u2019t seem to have any issues hitting. In the regional tournament, Taiwan outscored opponents 60-1 in the six games the team won.
Taiwan also boasts five pitchers capable of reaching over 70 mph and Chin-Tse Lin throws at 80 mph, which looks much faster to the hitter because of how close the mound is to home plate. There are pitch count rules in Little League, requiring a certain amount of days rest depending on how many pitches a player throws.
The Kuei-Shan Little League team from Taoyuan reached the final of the international bracket the past two years but wasn\u2019t able to win it all. Lai hopes for a different result for Tung-Yuan \u2014 he wants to bring Taiwan that 18th championship.
\u201cThat\u2019s the number one expectation,\u201d Lai said.<\/p>\n

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