FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Chuck Paiva

June 27, 2025

General Manager

401-845-6832//operations@newportgulls.com

On June 19, Newport Gulls alum Jack Little made his MLB debut for the Los Angeles Dodgers, pitching two relief innings against the San Diego Padres, which included his first major league strikeout. 

The 2017 Gull pitched in 13 games for Newport, putting up a 1-0 record and 5.04 ERA. He fanned 30 batters in 25 innings that summer. 

Little attended Stanford College from 2016-2019 and boasted a 6-2 record with 28 saves and 117 strikeouts through 90 innings. In 2019, he was selected 161st overall in the MLB Draft by the Dodgers. Little proceeded to play 3 years of single-A baseball with the organization and jumped to LA’s AA affiliate in 2023, where he made 66 appearances in two seasons with 86 strikeouts.

As of this season, Little was pitching in AAA for the Oklahoma City Comets before being called up. He is Newport’s most recent alum to make it to The Show. 

Newport wishes Jack the best of luck in his career on the mound!

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The Newport Gulls, members of the 13-team New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL), are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, founded as the Rhode Island Gulls in 1998 in Cranston, R.I., before moving to Newport in 2001. In addition to recruiting, fielding, and developing a team of the nation’s top collegiate baseball athletes and attracting 50,000 fans annually to Cardines Field, the predominantly volunteer organization strives to benefit the community via summer camps, reading programs, fundraisers, scholarships, and charitable donations – totaling over $1 million since 2001. The Gulls are eight-time champions of the NECBL – the winningest franchise in league history – and were ranked as the overall No. 1 summer collegiate baseball team in the country by Perfect Game USA in 2012.