Little League World Series 2023: Final Scores, Bracket Results and Thursday Highlight

Two passes had been clinched to the U.S. and International Finals as the Little League World Series. Thursday's action in Williamsport saw four teams battle for those final two slots.

Southwest and Asia-Pacific emerged out of the winner's bracket and are just one game away from the Little League World Series Championship. The losers bracket finals saw redemption opportunities for Mexico and Caribbean on the International side and West and Northwest on the U.S. side.

Who moves on? Who goes home? Here's how Thursday's action went in Williamsport.

Thursday Scores

Caribbean (Willemstad, Curaçao) def. Mexico (Tijuana, Mexico), 4-2

West (El Segundo, California) def. Northwest (Seattle, Washington), 2-1

Full bracket available at LittleLeague.org.

Caribbean 4, Mexico 2

Caribbean came in with experience but Mexico has been magic in elimination games.

The boys from Willemstad reached the tournament championship a year ago and had some veterans from that team back in the fold for this season. This experience was set to pay off although Mexico and their three nine consecutive elimination game winning streak, which dates back to the regionals, were no easy test.

It appeared that neither team was set to break away from the other in this one, as they entered the final inning knotted at one. Caribbean broke through in the top of the inning, drawing three consecutive bases loaded walks to jump out to a 4-1 lead.

Mexico generated some buzz in the bottom of the inning, loading the bases and scoring a run. Still, the Caribbean held on to advance to the International Final.

Caribbean advances to face a powerhouse Asia-Pacific team that defeated them 9-1 just one day ago. Still, a winner-take-all game is not partial for the past and the Caribbean will have their shot at redemption Saturday.

West 2, Northwest 1

Both of these team's had one loss thus far in the tournament and they came against the same opponent, a Southwest team that the winner of this game awaited.

West grabbed a lead early, putting a run across in both the first and second innings. Northwest would cut the lead in half in the fourth inning and were extremely close to tying it up in the final frame.

Northwest got runners on first and second with one out, but two straight strikeout seemingly ended the day. That was not to be, however, as the third strikeout involved a wild pitch and the bases were instead loaded with the tying run just 60 feet away.

The next batter smacked a ground ball up the middle and while there was a bobble, West eventually secured the fielder's choice and advanced to the United States Championship.

West will look to avenge a 3-1 loss to this Southwest team from Monday and will need to get past D.J. Jablonski in order to secure a spot in the tournament championship.