IWAKUNI, JAPAN - The USA Baseball Collegiate National Team's Thursday game against Japan at Kizuna Stadium was postponed due to rain. The teams will be back at Kizuna Stadium on Friday at 9 a.m. local time (8 p.m. ET Thursday) for Game 3 of the five-game series. 

The teams are booked to fly to Tokyo later in the afternoon Friday, thus no new inning will start after 11:30 a.m. (10:30 p.m. ET Thursday). The series is scheduled to continue Saturday in Koriyama, Japan and Sunday in Tokyo with Monday serving as a rain date. 

Notable Information
• The Collegiate National Team is scheduled to play at Kizuna Stadium for the first time ever.
• All-Star series: USA leads, 24-18
• Series in Japan: Japan leads, 17-3
• Team USA has lost 15 straight series in Japan dating back 40 years.
• Team USA lost its last series in Japan, 3-2, including a 5-4 loss in 10 innings in the deciding Game 5 on July 17, 2016 at Kusanagi Stadium in Shizuoka.
• All-Star series games: Collegiate National Team leads, 132-105-2
• Overall games: Collegiate National Team leads, 155-124-2
• The last four series (2013, 2016, 2017, 2018) have all finished 3-2. Japan won in 2013 and 2016 in Japan, while the Collegiate National Team won in 2017 and 2018 in the United States.
• Team USA has won two straight series vs. Japan, a 3-2 win in 2017 throughout the Northeast United States and a 3-2 win in 2018 in North Carolina and Georgia. 
• The longest series winning streak in the series is five by Team USA from 1973-77.

On Deck
• July 18 vs. Japan (8 p.m. ET; Iwakuni, Japan; Kizuna Stadium)
• July 20 vs. Japan (5 a.m. ET; Koriyama, Japan; Kaiseizan Stadium)
• July 21 vs. Japan (5 a.m. ET; Tokyo, Japan; Meiji Jingu Stadium)

Social
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