Eight teams chasing redemption will take to the diamond in Williamsport, Pennsylvania Saturday with an opportunity to evade elimination and earn their first victory of the 2025 Little League World Series.

It took a lot for Venezuela to the Little League World Series, but on Wednesday it made the playing baseball part look easy.

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA —Two international squads got the 2025 Little League World Series underway on Wednesday afternoon, as Venezuela blanked Puerto Rico, 5-0, in a marquee opening matchup between two perennial international baseball powers.

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT — A Puerto Rican father is back at the Little League World Series to watch his son play 26 years after he was on the team from the same league that made it to the international championship game. The complex in South Williamsport has changed since 1999, Jose Casanova said through an interpreter.