Little League World Series 2012 Scores: Final Scores for Championship Action

Sunday was a day of blowouts in the Little League World Series. 

Following up Saturday's epic United States championship that saw 40 players cross the plate was going to be downright impossible, but Sunday provided plenty of action.

Even if it was one-sided action.

Japan scored 12 more runs and fell back on its elite pitching to take home the world championship, while California kept up its hot-hitting ways to earn a third-place finish. 

Let's take a closer look. 

World Series Championship: Japan 12, Tennessee 2

Japan mercy-ruled the kids from Goodlettsville, Tennessee. In the championship. A day after winning the international championship by eight runs. 

Yikes.

The Japanese squad, which will go down as one of the best in little league history, finished an undefeated season in absolute spectacular fashion as Kotaro Kiyomiya and Noriatsu Osaka combined for five innings of two-hit, two-run ball against a Tennessee squad that scored 24 runs on Saturday night against California. 

I'll just say it again. Yikes. 

Tennessee went from 24 runs on 21 hits to two runs on two hits in one night, and knowing Japan's pitching staff, it wasn't all that surprising. Throughout the tournament, the 12-year-olds from Tokyo went 32 innings and gave up four earned runs on 18 hits with 60 strikeouts. 

The offense wasn't bad, either. Osaka went 4-for-4 with three home runs, including the "game-winning" shot to end the game in the fifth. Kiyomiya added two hits and a double. Rintaro Hirano and Yuta Ishida also homered.

It was the perfect performance at the most ideal moment. 

Brock Myers and Lorenzo Butler chipped in two solo shots for Tennessee, but it wasn't close to being enough. Still, this Tennessee squad will be remembered for a long time. 

Consolation Game: California 12, Panama 4

It would have been understandable if California suffered a letdown after losing Saturday's epic battle against Tennessee, but they weren't having that.

The squad from Petaluma easily took care of Panama en route to a third-place finish. 

Big Bradley Smith not only played third base, center field and left field, but he crushed two doubles and racked up three RBI in a leading effort for California. Logan Douglas chipped in a couple of hits as well as earning the win in five innings of relief for Quinton Gago. 

Edisson Gonzalez homered for Panama in the loss. The Aguadulce squad finishes the tournament at 3-3, but they will probably be just fine with a fourth-place finish. 

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