Canada will have to regroup after a tough start to the Little League World Series on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Vancouver Little Mountain, representing Canada at the tournament for the second year in a row and third time in the past five years, lost 7-0 to a South Korean team representing the Asia-Pacific region in South Williamsport, Pa.<\/p>\n
The Asia-Pacific rep has played in the International Bracket final of the Little League World Series seven of the past 10 years.<\/p>\n
South Korean teams are now 8-0 in openers at the event.<\/p>\n
Canada did have some highlight-reel plays on defence, especially a beautiful relay from outfielder Kian\u00a0Sandhu\u00a0to shortstop Cruz Krpan to catcher Jason Mezzarobba to nail a South Korean runner at the plate with the game still scoreless in the second inning.<\/p>\n
Canada starter Jacob Massel gave up four runs on six hits in 2.1 innings.<\/p>\n
South Korea’s Ji Hwan Hong hit the first home run of the event in the third inning.<\/p>\n
Canada had three hits against four South Korean pitchers.<\/p>\n
Canada faces elimination in its next game \u2014 on Saturday against the loser of Thursday’s game between Mexico and Australia.<\/p>\n
The 20-team event features players aged 10 to 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada will have to regroup after a tough start to the Little League World Series on Wednesday. Vancouver…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-864400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}