The game ended after the top of the fourth because of Little League’s 10-run rule.
Miller deposited a 2-1 pitch on to the hill packed with fans behind the right-field wall to start the rout.
“You lead off a game like that and you can’t help to get pumped up. The roar of the crowd was amazing as he was rounding the bases,” Pennsylvania manager Bill Garbrick said.
Pennsylvania tacked on seven more runs in the second, more than enough cushion for Breon. He struck out two and walked three before Miller came on in relief for the last two outs.
Pennsylvania faces Georgia today. The Pennsylvania team is based 30 miles from South Williamsport.
After beating Georgia in its series opener Thursday night, Louisiana lost its next two and was eliminated.
Warner Robins, Ga., 8, LaGrange, Ky., 5 (9 inn.): Jake Fromm hit a two-run home run to spark a three-run ninth inning that lifted the Georgia team to the victory.
“I was just trying to put the ball in play,” said the 5-foot-11 Fromm, Georgia’s leader and tallest player. “Honestly, I didn’t think it was going to go over the wall.”
Did it ever.
The high line-drive shot off a 2-1 pitch rocketed over the green center-field fence 225 feet away.
Fromm, a pitcher, wasn’t done. He returned to the mound in the bottom of the ninth to finish off Kentucky with two strikeouts and a groundout to help Georgia move on in the tournament. Fromm fanned 10 in 4 innings of one-hit relief.
Langley, B.C., 5, Kaoshiung, Taiwan, 3: Yi An Pan scattered nine hits over five innings and added a solo homer in the sixth for underdog Canada.
Langley became the first Canadian team to beat a squad from Taiwan after 16 losses.
It’s already the most successful showing for Canada at the series since 2005.
“We’ve got two wins so far in this tournament. For a Canadian team, that’s the most we’ve had in a while,” coach Jason Andrews said. “We are starting to get more comfortable with the crowds. The kids seem less nervous. I’m less nervous as coach.”
Hamamatsu City, Japan, 13, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia 4: Japan broke open a tight game with an eight-run sixth inning, setting up a match with Canada today.
With Japan holding a one-run lead, Sotaro Yoshida hit a solo homer with one out to start the scoring in the sixth. Mitsuhiro Uchida, Ken Igeta and Taiga Iwamoto each added RBI hits in the inning.
Oranjestad, Aruba, 5, Rapid City, S.D., 0: Gillian Wernet struck out 12 in a four-hit shutout as both teams ended their Little League run after being eliminated earlier in the weekend from title contention.
