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WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- Mets manager Carlos Mendoza got a bit of a surprise when the team was already en route to Williamsport and the Little League Classic on Sunday morning. One of the two teams greeting his club at the airport upon touchdown? The Latin American team from Venezuela -- from Mendoza’s hometown.

Memories came rushing back, and Mendoza spent the whole ride from the airport to the Little League complex chatting with members of Cardenales Little League, based in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. They compared notes like old acquaintances.

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