WILLIAMSPORT – Shortstop Cruz Krpan had two hits and drove in a run as Canada stunned South Korea 5-1 on Tuesday to advance in the Little League World Series.<\/p>\n
Canada will face Japan on Wednesday with a berth in the quarterfinals of the international bracket at stake.<\/p>\n
The team from Little Mountain in Vancouver racked up seven hits in the win and limited the Koreans to just three.<\/p>\n
Jean Ramos earned the win for Canada, pitching two innings of one-hit ball, allowing a run on four walks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kian Sandhu came on in relief, going four innings and striking out five. He gave up seven walks and two hits but no runs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It’s the first time a Canadian team has advanced this far at the Little League World Series since 2017.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 25, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WILLIAMSPORT – Shortstop Cruz Krpan had two hits and drove in a run as Canada stunned South Korea…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2323,2314,2317,2313,1465,2413,27004,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,16773,185,1039],"class_list":["post-788769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-events","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-games","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-canada","tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","tag-little-league-world-series","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-south-korea","tag-sports","tag-world-series"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}