Bayonne powers through Port Washington to reach LLWS Metro championship game

Nypost · Aug 10, 2026 · 633 words · By Alex Mitchell

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A Little League in the shadows of New York City’s skyscrapers is having its moment in the sun.

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What happened

A Little League in the shadows of New York City’s skyscrapers is having its moment in the sun.

Why it matters

New Jersey’s Bayonne Central routed New York’s Port Washington 12-2 on Monday afternoon in Bristol, Conn., in a winner’s bracket game in the Metro Regional of the Little League World Series.

Common ground

The 11- and 12-year-old Garden State greats now are one win away from a trip to Williamsport, Pa., and are living off the mantra of shocking the world.

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Claim 1: “Third baseman Joey Dwyer singled in two more runs, and Tapia drove in another one on an infield error that extended the lead to 10-2.”

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Claim 2: “Rincon... came on to pitch in the third and allowed no hits or walks while tallying one strikeout.”

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Claim 3: “Third baseman AJ Tapia then drove in another two runs off a hard-hit single that made it 4-0.”

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The search results for 'Tapia' refer to professional baseball players (Raimel Tapia) in the MLB, not a youth player named AJ Tapia in the Bayonne Little League.

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web search NEUTRAL — BOSTON (AP) — Raimel Tapia hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in a five-run second inning for his first RBIs this season, and the Toronto Blue Read More.
https://whdh.com/news/tapia-homer-in-5-run-second-leads-blue…

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web search NEUTRAL — George Springer had two hits and two RBIs, and Matt Chapman drove in a run and scored a run as Toronto (83-63) improved to 13-4 in September.Tapia cleared the bases with a two-out double to center in …
https://www.wbal.com/tapia-drives-in-3-berrios-gets-win-as-j…

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web search NEUTRAL — The Blue Jays scored a run in the first inning on Matt Chapman's sacrifice fly and two more in the second when Cavan Biggio and Espinal knocked one-out singles and scored on Springer's double off the …
https://barrie360.com/toronto-blue-jays-defeat-baltimore-ori…

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Claim 4: “Port Washington loaded the bases against Bayonne starting pitcher Gabe Garcia in the second inning, and second baseman Michael Gabriel scored on a wild pitch followed by an RBI single from shortstop Brandon Kien to cut the lead to 4-2.”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of unrelated professional baseball reports (Braves, Rays, Red Sox) and The Walking Dead Wikipedia entries. No evidence corroborates the specific play-by-play involving Michael Gabriel and Brandon Kien.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "Acheron: Part I" is the first episode of the eleventh season of the post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead. The first of a two-part season premiere, the episode was written by Jim…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of characters from The Walking Dead television series based on the eponymous comic book series. Although some characters appear in both the television and comic series, the con…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "No Other Way" is the ninth episode and second-part premiere of the eleventh season of the post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead. The 162nd episode of the series overall, the epis…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Other_Way_(The_Walking_Dead…

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Claim 5: “Catcher Jett Bridges put the icing on the cake in the fourth inning with a bases-loaded walk-off double that scored the last two runs, triggering the mercy rule.”

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Claim 6: “Bayonne center fielder Chase Klimkowski drove in another two runs with a double in the third.”

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Claim 7: “Port Washington, which cruised to a 10-3 opening-round win over Lincoln, R.I., next will play in a double-elimination game at 5 p.m. Wednesday against Darien, Conn.”

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Claim 8: “Mikey Catuogno took over on the mound for Port Washington in the bottom of the second and gave up a run on a sac fly by left fielder Dex Zimmerman that pushed Bayonne ahead 5-2.”

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The search results for 'Zimmerman' refer to professional MLB players (Ryan Zimmerman), not a youth player named Dex Zimmerman in the Bayonne Little League.

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web search NEUTRAL — Zimmerman hit a 2-0 pitch off Mike Fiers (0-1) over the wall in left field to score Adam LaRoche for the Nationals fourth consecutive win. Tyler Clippard (5-2) pitched a scoreless 15th for the win. Ra…
https://www.oregonlive.com/mlb/2014/06/ryan_zimmermans_16th_…

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web search NEUTRAL — He scored with two outs when Morgan hit a 2-2 fastball between shortstop and third base to tie it 1-all. Santana allowed a run on six hits in seven innings. He walked two and struck out seven.
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web search NEUTRAL — Tommy White had three hits for the A's, who have won four of five following a five-game losing streak. J.T. Ginn (9-8) allowed six hits and four runs in six innings. Elvis Alvarado pitched a scoreless…
https://abc7news.com/post/butler-homers-williams-hits-2-run-…

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Claim 9: “The winner rematches with Bayonne at 7 p.m. Friday in the championship game that will air on ESPN.”

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Claim 10: “the NJ squad has not lost a game in the double-elimination tristate tournament.”

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Claim 11: “Mason Rincon... launched a two-run home run and tossed two no-hit innings in relief.”

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While web results mention Mason Rincon hitting home runs and pitching in the 2026 LLWS, the specific details of a two-run home run and two no-hit relief innings in this specific game against Port Washington are not corroborated by the provided evidence snippets.

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web search NEUTRAL — Mason Rincon hit his second tournament home run for an insurance run in the fourth inning.It was Rincon’s second home run in two games at the 2026 LLWS. Rincon hit a walk-off home run in Game 4 to bea…
https://littleleagueworldbaseball.com/llws-2026-game-12-reca…

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web search NEUTRAL — Mason Rincon delivered the game-winning home run in the bottom of the sixth inning to lift Bayonne to the victory. Rincon also pitched 4 1/3 innings, allowing just two hits and striking out eight.
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/who-is-mason-rincon-in-the-c…

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web search NEUTRAL — Great Lakes left fielder Carlos Rincon hit two home runs in the Loons’ first win of the year on Monday. He drove in four runs and also walked twice. Rincon has a home run in each of the last three gam…
https://www.truebluela.com/2017/4/11/15250900/carlos-rincon-…

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Claim 12: “The Long Islanders are also in Bristol for the first time in their league’s 63-year history”

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Claim 13: “Bayonne defeated Darien 8-2 on Saturday night.”

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Claim 14: “Bayonne’s offensive machine ignited on Rincon’s blast off Jackson Gorynski in the bottom of the first inning that went into the trees behind Leon J. Breen Field.”

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The provided evidence mentions Mason Rincon hitting home runs in other games (e.g., against Bridgewater), but does not specifically corroborate the home run off Jackson Gorynski in the first inning of the Port Washington game.

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web search NEUTRAL — Kyle Schwarber puts the finishing touches on a huge Philadelphia Phillies comeback with his 39th home run vs. the St. Louis Cardinals in the 9th inning of an August 23, 2026 game!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSenGTYYJ1c

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web search NEUTRAL — Mason Rincon earned the victory on the mound, tossing four scoreless innings in relief and striking out eight of the 12 batters he faced.The Bees answered in the bottom of the first with two runs off …
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2026/08/14/bayonne-lit…

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web search NEUTRAL — Mason Rincon led off the bottom of the sixth inning Wednesday night at Howard J. Lamade Stadium and drove a pitch 260 feet to dead center field, a walk-off home run that beat New England champion Brid…
https://centraljersey.com/2026/08/20/bayonne-llws-walk-off-h…

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Claim 15: “We’ve never won a state title before with our 12-year-old league,” manager Justin Smith told The Post of his 75-year-old league.”

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The claim is corroborated by two independent sources: a report quoting manager Justin Smith stating they had never won a state title before, and an nj.com article confirming the league won its first state title in 75 years.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Little League World Series is a currently running youth baseball tournament that is taking place from August 19 to August 30 at the Little League headquarters complex in South Williamsport, P…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Little_League_World_Serie…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bayonne (French: [bajɔn] ; Basque and Gascon: Baiona) is a city in southwestern France near the Spanish border. It is a commune and one of two subprefectures in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayonne

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Metro Region is one of ten United States regions that currently send teams to the Little League World Series, the largest youth baseball competition in the world. The region was created in 2022 wh…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_League_World_Series_(Me…

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Claim 16: “The team needed just four of six innings due to the 10-run rule.”

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Both the NY Post and Newsday explicitly state that the game ended after four innings due to the 10-run rule.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bayonne ( bay-(Y)OHN) is a city in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey, in the Gateway Region on Bergen Neck, a peninsula between Newark Bay to the west, the Kill Van Kull to the south, and …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayonne,_New_Jersey

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Bayonne Bridge is a steel through arch bridge that spans the Kill Van Kull between Staten Island, New York, and Bayonne, New Jersey, United States. It carries New York State Route 440 and New Jers…
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Claim 17: “New Jersey’s Bayonne Central routed New York’s Port Washington 12-2 on Monday afternoon in Bristol, Conn., in a winner’s bracket game in the Metro Regional of the Little League World Series.”

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Multiple independent sources (NY Post via web search and Newsday) confirm that Bayonne Central defeated Port Washington in a Metro Regional winner's bracket game. Newsday specifically confirms the final score was 12-2.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 34th Street station is an active light rail station on the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail in the city of Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey. The third of four stations going northbound from 8th Street stati…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/34th_Street_station_(Hudson–Be…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Hell Gate Line is the portion of Amtrak's high-speed Northeast Corridor between Harold Interlocking in Sunnyside, Queens, and Shell Interlocking in New Rochelle, New York, within the New York metr…
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