Hawaii LLWS Championship Video | The Most Dominant Little League Team Ever?

Hawaii put on an impressive performance in the 2022 Little League World Series. This video highlights their games in both regionals and the LLWS in Williamsport.
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[@BBBoy990]

Hawaii had a really good catcher, caught an excellent series. Their pitchers were very fortunate.

[@kamaaina3236]

That was my thought as well. He held it down back there.

[@brad3706]

True and it helps that HI had four legit home run hitters with one pure hitter who Oda skillfully placed in the batting order, 3 players who were legit SS, 4 pure fielders, all bench players were productive at the plate and on the field but, they had 2 aces and three pitchers as backup... Sniffen, Heromoto, and a guy we didn't see Watson, would be aces on any team. The thing was this team was deep. WE is greater than ME was about containing ego..... Needed for a team this deep.

[@shawno1743]

Hawaii was amazing, definitely one of the best team ever. And what’s so crazy is that Southwest, Southeast, Curacao, Mexico, Chinese Taipei, and Latin America was powerful teams, and could’ve win, but Hawaii was just to awesome from the jump SMH

[@Randsurfer]

Curacao vs. Hawaii. Curacao pitchers hit Hawaii hitters about 20 times. No way they could've won.

[@zwillows9705]

You mean Taiwan

[@Osamabinfortnite]

@@zwillows9705same thing

[@bettyannsmith5267]

WELCOME HOME! So proud of our Hawaii boys!! They dominated this entire LLWS season. 🙌💪❤️🤙

[@reidkaneshiro5495]

ALOHA from Hawaii Wheels! Thank you for all of your LLWS highlights. Keep up the great work!! 🤙🏻

[@chipwilhelm7514]

This team has been very fun to watch young hawaiian men at their best… Every position, pitching and hitting was remarkable!!! Thank you coaches, parents, financial supporters and players… I WAS REALLY IMPRESSED!!! God bless you all, safe return home and I look forward to seeing a couple of you in the big leagues!!! Jaryn Lancaster is a beast 💪🏽🤙🏽🙏💯✝️

[@Manuel-zo3wg]

This whole LLb ⚾ was amazing these kids are all champions. Congratulations to Hawaii 👏

[@daone5086]

Just imagine these little league teams in Hawaii. All come from a town city to win their district, then to states, then to regionals, and then World Series. Honestly though, the top 5 little teams have a better competition between each other than the other competitors. It has been like that in Hawaii for Years! Not just in this age bracket but from ages 10u to junior and senior little leagues. Cal Ripken and little league. Congrats to all teams though in making this sport entertaining and fun. Keep it up parents and coaches!

[@K.kamelamela]

Been watching Little League World Series since I was 8 years old I’m 28 now. Out of all Hawaii teams I’ve seen this team was by far the best overall baseball team I have ever seen in Little League.

[@mpireone]

Hawaii was like a High School vs LL... dominated!! Congrats boys, Hawaii is proud!!! 🤙🤙🤙🤙💯💯💯💯

[@marksauce2383]

More to that than meets the eye...??? 🤔

[@NXTLVL2.0]

@@marksauce2383more like they took guys from all over oahu instead of just "Honolulu"

[@ruk5258]

Hawaii seems to have peaked at the right time. They just got better and better. Looking back to the Hawaii State Tournament, they outscored their opponents 40-9 in 4 games. That means their local opponents outscored their LLWS opponents in fewer games!

[@julianromero4120]

My son was on a different team at the state tournament. Honolulu's toughest tournament of the summer was the state tournament. Honolulu only faced one of the opponents ace pitchers and Honolulu was down 2-4 when that Ace had to be pulled. The teams all came to beat Honolulu. No one was afraid. The field at the state tournament was 190 to center, and had it been 225 like it was at the world series, the games would have been even closer. Arguably the best pitcher in the state was Kai Watanabe of Maui. It's just too bad he had to pitch against us the day before the Honolulu game. Of the 4 games, two were 10 run ruled, the first game, but the opposing team just pitched everyone 20 pitches after the ace yielded. The Championship game was like Curacao, the opponent did not have pitchers after going through the losers bracket. Games 2 and 3 were closer than score 6-2 and 7-3. If those two teams had their aces, it would have been closer. Game 2, Honolulu had Lancaster and game 3 was Sakamoto.

[@Nohandleplease69]

@@julianromero4120 this is what I was thinking! I was wondering how much talent from Hawaii was excluded when this team won. 6-8 years from now there may be a lot of collegiate talent coming from Hawaii

[@ruk5258]

@@julianromero4120 There's amazing talent all over Hawaii!

[@khunpen1]

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[@Bmthighlights]

It was insane! It felt like they didn’t even have competition

[@slisel033190]

Honestly they didn't. They mercy ruled the second place team in the world.

[@trxv.]

@@slisel033190 there were better teams than curaçao

[@keithfreitas2983]

@@trxv. Yea there were, but they lost so the best played in the final. That's how it goes.

[@wryZcrazy]

Any international team that played would have gotten stomped. The best team showed up and got mercy ruled yikes.

[@trxv.]

@@keithfreitas2983 yeah kinda wished they played chinese taipei because they were definitely the best international team in the tournament but curaçao upset them

[@jletsfsu]

There were some GREAT teams this year and Hawaii stomped all of them

[@hankakah4180]

For those who are commenting about Japan or the team from 2009, can you guys post scores from those teams throughout their regionals and LLWS? I believe that Hawaii in the LLWS outscored their opponents 60 - 5. The 3 regionals they scored 25 - 6. So combined they scored 85 - 11. Remember, some of these games were mercy rule finishes so they didn't even play the full 6 innings. As for me this is one of the most dominant teams as I don't recall any other team outscoring the other teams like this. Some previous teams had a few players who were good, this team was deeper in both pitching and hitting. 7 of this team hit homeruns in the LLWS. It wasn't based just upon one or two good players, everyone contributed.

[@CapAnson12345]

The 1973 Taiwan team outscored their opponents 57-0 with three straight no hitters. Of course they were cheating.. but that's a hard record to beat.

[@0abelino]

Its junior league

[@aaroncummings2613]

Everyone contributed

[@michaelmoreno7026]

The only team since I've been watching(early 90s) that I think maybe could take 1 or 2 games in a 7 game series would be the 2019 Louisianna or the 2006 Georgia team.. Both had exceptional pitching, dominant players & fundamentally sound. Neither team blew out ppl like Hawaii tho, by sum margin the most dominant/best overall team I've ever seen. Ones mentioned above could maybe take a game or 2 but weren't as dominant.

[@ryanbodiford9952]

These teams also were dramatically worse. Hawaii only good team in this tournament. I love my Tennessee boys but they were no competition

[@Alohaonalani]

Wow...mahalo for this Wheels. Didn’t get to see any of the regional games, so getting these highlights is brilliant.

[@jelskiluv3807]

Great Job Hawaii 👏 Don't let none of this haters try to take away your Championship.

[@mattbryson433]

i have never seen a team like this . they were by far one of the best teams ever

[@sabelshrew6904]

this yr hawaii team is the best ever of all hawaii little league team!!no disrespect to the hawaii team that win b4 this kids ..i watch 3 of the last 4 championships team from hawaii this one felt different like no matter who this kids play we felt that they goin crush em..hats of to the coaches yall did amazing 🤙🤙🤙🤙

[@hawaiiantime6596]

This team and the 2018 were definitely better than the prior Hawaii teams. Reason for this, is in 2018, Little League changed eligibility rules. You could now play where you went to school, instead of just the community you live in. Honolulu already having the largest district in the state, could now take all of the kids from the ILH schools, regardless of where they actually live. The 2018, 2021 and 2022 teams had the best players from the whole island of Oahu. The Ewa Beach and Waipio teams were community based teams, players all representing the town they are from. Honolulu was not that kind of team.

[@lionheart4529]

Hawaii this year had the greatest LL team in history! They ran up the score against everybody!

[@trxv.]

they ran up the score because there were no good teams like usual besides hawaii being the only one

[@kpd174]

@@trxv. is this not the world series ??? Doesn't that mean the teams are the best of the best??? Maybe hawaii was just that much better then everyone else...

[@JohnSmith-ti9uq]

One of the best but IMO its hard to say they are THE best. The field of teams this year was the weakest Ive ever seen it. Im going to assume Covid hurt the quality of play. The pitching and hitting was below average. The defense was great tho.

[@markwilkerson9342]

No they just dominated everybody

[@Lil_tro_Vert]

They are top 5 but I’ll have to say the blue bombers from Chula Vista will always be the best the entire team was home run hitters

[@franksantos3418]

As a former resident of Hawai’i , so proud. This is by far the best little league team ever. Total domination! 🤙

[@aaroncummings2613]

Awesome game Kama!! Congratulations Honolulu! 808 BABY!!!

[@dwighthatanaka1995]

Kama Angel RBI machine in championship game

[@JMK248]

Yes they are the best don’t even try to argue it. most dominant group of kids I have ever seen in the llws it’s not even close. They really went there and demolished everyone it was insane those kids are special.

[@TheJonesmonster55]

Yes as now a days the best kids don’t play little league anymore… the teams back the in day would have crushed this team. The best kids now only play elite travel ball… the winner of any weekend at Williamsport this year would bet hawaii and they aren’t even some of the elite teams in country

[@VegasVaron]

Good games all around and kudos to all the teams, but this was Hawaii's time. Just an amazing team - great pitching and batting and super aggressive play.

[@matthardable]

Great Job guys way to represent our county and yourselves.

[@douglashall2141]

Congratulations Hawaii Little League team. Excellent games. You definitely earned it. ⚾️

[@joeyholloway6802]

Their timing at bat was crazy perfect with all those hits to straight away center .

[@dogmumma10]

The Hawaii catcher had a superb series. What an amazing team though. These kids did it all and did it exceptionally.

[@Biotoze]

Agreed. Hawaii was absolutely insane

[@rivero64]

OMG I enjoyed it like if I was a kid again. Thank you so much and congratulations

[@Randsurfer]

Hawaii's hitting is obvious, but they also had an amazing roster of pitchers.

[@mobydick3895]

I pitched in my Little League days probably twenty complete games over four years on the same team, something nearly unheard of by today's rules. Pitching is what wins and loses baseball games. Over those years I developed an extreme sense of responsibility for winning or losing games I pitched. These pitchers are awesome! And to win tournaments, you need three very good pitchers.

[@yagotta1]

1-2 punch Lancaster and Sakamoto

[@jimzimmerman5288]

Great job young men and coaches.

[@akamai25]

I watched the other video about Chula Vista yesterday before this video came out and was going to ask the same question? In any case, definitely one of the best if not the best. Congrats!

[@notdriizzy]

one of the greatest teams ever. Honolulu LL gonna be a dynasty

[@mitchtaylor4633]

Everyone that's shitting on these kids saying they cheated in one way or another shame on you

[@danielfranklin7179]

They are bigger than the coach and umpire. 12 years old??? No way!!

[@josecarlosgonzalez9446]

They did cheat. Most of them were 13 not 12 like the rest of all the other teams. It was completely obvious. At this level they should all be competitive. The fact they had no competition at all. Come on! But hawaii isn't the only one to do this. Many international teams have done this also. It's not that hard to falsify documents. Also they recruited the best from outside city boundaries, so they had a bigger area to recruit from

[@Lil_tro_Vert]

@@josecarlosgonzalez9446 no they didn’t cheat your son must’ve been on one of the teams they run ruled

[@josecarlosgonzalez9446]

@@Lil_tro_Vert nope not at all, I'm just saying the truth. Not trying to offend anyone

[@dusk5956]

I love that they celebrate each other at the home plate. Hawai’i is so proud 😭

[@Babydrew32]

This Hawaii team and the 2009 Chula Vista team are the 2 most dominant Little League teams I have ever seen

[@MarloSoBalJr]

When you're a team who are in the zone and have it all together... and relaxed, there isn't a team nor thing that could beat you. Good job Hawai'i

[@TajEa6le]

IDK... the hawaii from 2019 that got beat by that louisiana team. But this team is incredible and ao much fun to watch. I love these boys!

[@roylindsey4220]

Best little league team ever! Enough said.

[@richardkamaka4945]

There are always haters and it disgust me when you read their comments and I find it really ridiculously like for example " Mainland competition SUCKS because they play travel ball " Is it Hawaii fault they don't play travel ball but I thought in competition you send your best to compete. And as far as Chinese Taipei is concern they had an off day in their game against Curacao, most felt Taipei would've gave Hawaii some competition but they didn't and Hawaii did show up. I myself would've love a game between these 2 teams but it didnt turn out in Taipei favor and I have to give Curacao credit I thought they played an excellent game and deserved the victory. But in the finals we all saw Hawaii at its BEST it showed the entire world we do play baseball here in the islands and we play pretty Damm good baseball.

[@WhoDG]

Incredible pitching

[@richardovercast2258]

I thought the team from Long Beach in the 90s that won back to back titles was the best of all time until I seen this team.

[@hanabadah5037]

The West division is probably one of the most difficult division to come out on top. Props to that Hawaii coach who has made it to the LLWS contention three times!! Crazy!

[@joeheid4757]

Thanks Wheels!!! Congrats against Hawaii!!!

[@Owen004]

That team was crazy

[@JakkiPi]

WE>ME on their backs, instead of their name. Way to set a TEAM mentality!

[@dwighthatanaka1995]

Hawaii 2022 ,LLWS goat

[@mspionage1743]

West Regional is always a very difficult bracket to get out of.

[@hpaek1891]

The 3-0 Game against Cali was the closest game they had in region and WS!

[@naturem10]

@@hpaek1891 noticed that too. crazy stat. Cali must've had a stud on the mound

[@mspionage1743]

@@hpaek1891 Yep, SoCal and Hawaii seem to be rotating spots in the LLWS for years now with them both winning quite a few as well. The west regional is always very rough. Not to mention the Vegas, Arizona and NorCal teams as well. It's a brutal region, always has been.

[@hpaek1891]

@@mspionage1743 in 2005 Hawaii represented northwest. I wonder if they continue to dominate they would get pushed there again?

[@khonhlo1476]

@@hpaek1891 I think they should. The Northwest this year and last year was very weak. Would be nice to have some strong teams in the west coast at Williamsport. Last year was painful to watch. They didnt have International bracket so some second place teams made it to Williamsport. Most of the games were won by catcher errors. Some games were ridiculous as half the runs on both teams were all due to catcher error.

[@JetSZZZN]

I feel like hawaii actually swung their bats really well all the other teams were horrible and the bats were swinging them this team is actually physical

[@hawnair6624]

HAMMAHS! These boys destroyed the competition, but were/are so humble! They worked hard to get where they wanted to be.

[@Guywithnolimbs]

Bro all of their pitchers have near perfect motions and get more hip and shoulder separation than most high schoolers

[@charell31]

Hands down best team ever.

[@Shmurdababyyy]

Impressive. Cant help but feel bad for all the great teams who had to encounter this juggernaut🤦🏽‍♂️

[@nikomouse6583]

That was AMAZING! Great pitching Great hitting WOW!

[@kodyseguancia4934]

Hawaii stand up 🤙🏾

[@danharman9695]

Lancaster and Sakamoto are something different, would love to see them at the next level

[@hoops2425]

Just a plane ticket for Babe Ruth games….

[@Sensistar4200]

that California team in the regionals gave them a better game than any one in the llws

[@steezymcgee9873]

the craziest part is that the players on this team have stated that the hardest tournament for them was the state tournament. It's an entire state that's churning out solid players now. The future is looking bright in the 808.

[@forme3h]

Actually, the state competition was way tougher than the llws. The teams in Hawaii are awesome. One of the pitchers, if I remembered, from Maui was actually better than Jaron but his team lost to Honolulu.

[@julianromero4120]

@@forme3h Kai Watanabe of Maui is as good as Sakamoto and Lancaster. 73 mph with a deadly slider, and a unique release. Luckily for Honolulu, Watanabe had to pitch against Pearl City the day before, and could not face Honolulu. My son played for Pearl City, Honolulu was great, and a really class act. Just wanted to mention that at the state tournament, Honolulu only saw one of the opposing teams ace pitcher. The first game of the tournament. In that game, Honolulu was actually down 4-2 when the ace had to leave the game. The tournament field was also only 190 to center. If it was 225 like the regionals and World Series, the other Hawaii teams would have had a better chance. 190 to center with the way Honolulu hits... And still, it was competitive tournament for all.

[@Ewabound571]

Thank you for the videos!!!

[@UnicornOfDepression]

The Eastlake team is still the top team I've ever seen in Little League.

[@gustavogonzalez3004]

30 to life, USO Ron watching this like 💪🏽

[@memiliano8579]

Memiliano/music Congratulations little league team the best of course..!

[@crosby87immax]

Lancaster might be the best player I’ve ever seen play in the LLWS

[@Sportsfan94]

Man amongst boys

[@jamesmckay8663]

Wow pretty incredible

[@Tophr_MCOC]

Thx for posting!

[@Antbeast23]

Straight dominated these fools

[@lazyrebel5019]

All those kids could hit. If I remember correctly, half the team hit at least one home run and hawaii as a team almost had the same amount of home runs as the rest of the teams. Absurd.

[@Sportsfan94]

Yes. They dominated every team

[@Spaceface3]

Their toughest challenge was states. Other teams from Hawaii got some game.

[@naturem10]

Still think Tapei would've gave them a game due to their great pitching and defense. Really sucks we didn't get to see it

[@Makanaboy808]

Still to say generally if you didn’t watch baseball at all when you watched this highlight video it would seem like no team at this level in the world could match Hawaii, call each game a fucken smash job yessasssshhhh HAWAII ON TOP 🤙

[@123491622]

It's all that Spam!!! What a team. The little Lancaster guy really should have shaved before the final though.

[@v22u]

LIttle League baseball is more exciting than the Majors!😂

[@gm2256]

4:00 that was a ripper!

[@breeze787]

Hawaii No Ka Oi!

[@vp3970]

Good job, just subscribed. Shaka bradah.

[@kaizillaboy]

Judging by all the point spreads this is indeed the most dominant LL American team ever.

[@daone5086]

To be honest, Hawaii’s other 2nd and 3rd place in states teams would’ve smashed all the other teams as well. Hawaii would dominate this little league with the runner up teams. Sucks only one can go. All it takes is to be on it every game.

[@J_R15]

It’s crazy how they’re always good. But you don’t see many Hawaiians playing MLB

[@StFidjnr]

18:15 the hr has got BIG RENT DISTRICT written all over it

[@notyourmomma7663]

808 Vs Everybody 💯

[@Rex_vrx]

Bro I was on my tournament team and we got eliminated the first couple games and I’m litterally like 4’9 and 65 pounds and 11 yrs old these kids are huge

[@nikomouse6583]

These are average looking kids for Hawaii, I have no idea what the hate is about? You guys need to get out more..and also they hit balls nobody else would have swung on, they made contact and it paid off.

[@sambarker4253]

🔥

[@ec7429]

holy crap...most of these kids are as tall as their manager and the adults.. Must have short managers in Hawaii or Mighty big 12 year olds. Good for them if that's the case. Congratulations.....

[@naderesmael1878]

i feel like every team they faced in the llws were just so destroyed that they wanted out immediately after being sent to lower brackets

[@denzelmalcolm6721]

They only used like 2 pitchers most of that entire run. And that’s all they needed.

[@SergioArambula]

Had more competition in regionals than the llws...

[@benxuxova]

What about Hawaii 2005? Boys back then had mustaches

[@davidmartinez2302]

hawaiis pitchers gettings Ks and hitting bombs

[@zotation2970]

2012 Japan and this team would match well. Super Dominant

[@davidmartinez2302]

Hawaii's players number 13 is easily the best player

[@rubenvillanueva8635]

Hi Wheels, from Spain, will you be covering College football, starting 1 September 2022?

[@ledbyonme2064]

Those kids are as big as a grown ups big kids in Hawaii.

[@JOKERLAMO]

Yessa!

[@enjoyment8504]

Congrats Hawaii!!! Amazing LLWS!!! Anyone know how many 10’s / 11’s are on this team and possibly will be back next year to try to repeat?

[@hawaiiantime6596]

Zero

[@MarloSoBalJr]

I think half the team were at the cutoff age, so unlikely they'll run it back but there's no denying this team though

[@keithfreitas2983]

Lot of hating / jealousy here about the Hawaii team. They have to follow the rules in picking a team and age limits just like the rest.

[@rictawheels88]

Comparing 2022 Honolulu vs 2009 C.V. They were both dominant but Hawaii was more dominant. 4 parts thay negate C.V. as most dominant: * loss to Texas 6 -3 on 08/25 * Close game W over Georgia * Finals W over Chinese Taipei * Outscoring opponents 61-21

[@alexmeans5065]

listen they are good but i want to see 2019 Louisiana vs 2022 Hawaii Reece Rousel would go crazy.

[@sportgeek2028]

Taking Lancaster

[@ryanbrettCA]

Very good indeed but The depleted talent pool from the mainland teams certainly factors into the domination. In the last several years you’ve seen the best players 10-12 years old especially in Florida Texas and California no longer participate in the classic Little League team instead they now play travel ball. This does not happen as frequently in Hawaii so they are still getting the top notch players

[@alexeidouglas7628]

Southern California was their best opponent easily. There were multiple bad calls against so cal not saying they would have won