Great Lakes beat New England 10-0 in LLBWS Game 14 at Lamadé Stadium on August 19, turning a close opening into a one-sided finish with a seven-run third inning. Josiah Infante helped drive the result with 2.2 innings, four strikeouts and an RBI.
The shutout came on the first day of the 2026 Little League Baseball World Series, Presented by T-Mobile, which runs through August 30. The scoreline was decisive, and the middle of the game made it so.
That seven-run third inning was the moment the matchup got away from New England. One summary of the game framed the result as Ohio over Massachusetts by the same 10-0 count, but the listed scoreline put Great Lakes against New England, and the numbers match that version: 10 runs to none.
Infante’s line gave the game its clearest individual marker. He worked 2.2 innings, struck out four batters and added an RBI, enough to stand out in a game that was otherwise defined by the scoreboard and a single inning that changed everything.
What matters now is not the label attached to the teams so much as the result itself: Great Lakes moved through Game 14 with a shutout, New England was held scoreless, and the bracket kept moving on the same day the tournament opened. The next game was not identified in the available reporting, leaving the cleanest takeaway to the one that was already settled on the field.
