Wednesday's LLWS Game Gets Record Ratings, ESPN Says

By Kara Seymour

Wednesday’s Little League World Series game between the Taney Dragons and the Las Vegas Mountain Ridge got record ratings for television programming of the event, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

ESPN said Wednesday’s match, which featured 13-year-old pitching phenomenon Mo’ne Davis, was the highest rated Little League World Series game to air on the network.

Taney lost 8-1 but the Philadelphia team is still in the tournament. They play a team from Chicago on Thursday. The winner of that game will advance to play Las Vegas on Saturday in the U.S. Championship game.

Davis, who this week made the cover of Sports Illustrated, left Wednesday’s game early, so that the team can bring her back on Saturday if they play.

Mo’ne pitched 2 1/3 innings on Wednesday, striking out six.