The Japan All-High School Baseball Team played their third and final game against the Urban Youth Academy on the 6th and were beaten 2-1.

Yosuke Shimabukuro started the game and gave up the game-tying run in the bottom of the 4th on a wild pitch.

Shinta Hifumi surrendered the game-winning run in the 6th.

Japan scored their long run on a sac fly by Daiki Maehira in the top of the 4th.

The Japan All-High School Baseball Team played their second game against the Urban Youth Academy on the 5th and beat them 18-7.

Shinta Hifumi started the game and gave up a run over 4 innings of work.

Daiki Maehira hit 2 homers: 2-run homer in the first and a 3-run homer in the 5th.

The Japan All-High School Baseball Team played their first game against the Urban Youth Academy on the 4th and beat them 9-6.

Yosuke Shimabukuro started the game and gave up 3 runs (including a 2-run homer) on 6 hits over 5 innings of work.  He also struck out 5.

Moritsugu Ganeko had 4 hits (including a 2-run homer in the 9th) and 3 RBI.

Tairiku Kuniyoshi went 4-for-5.

8 of the 15 hits for Japan came from Konan players.

I'll post more information about the game as it becomes available (if it becomes available).

The Japan All-High School Baseball Team played a practice game against Palm Spring High School on the 2nd.

Yosuke Shimabukuro started the game for Japan and tossed two shutout innings (0 H, 2 BB, 3 SO).  Shinta Hifumi also pitched and did not allow any hits or walks and struck out 2 in his outing (not sure how many innings).

Daiki Maehira and Tetsuto Yamada both apparently hit for the cycle with Maehira going 5-for-6 with 6 RBI and Yamada going 5-for-5 with 5 RBI.

A little more information:

Maehira's at bats- 2-run homer (1st), infield single, triple to right, single to right, fly out to center, double to right-center (9th).

Hifumi tossed two shutout innings.

Yamada's at bats- triple to right-center (1st), walk, single to left, double to left, infield single, 2-run homer (9th).

Here is the US game schedule for the Japan All-High School Baseball Team:

Venue: Urban Youth Academy Baseball Field

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The Japan All-High School Baseball Team also played a practice game against first and second year college students from Kindai on Sunday and beat them, 3-2. All pitchers on the roster, other than Masataka Watanabe (he wasn't feeling well) pitched in the game; Yosuke Shimabukuro entered the game in the 9th with a 3-2 lead and tossed a shutout inning in relief while topping out at 141km/h.

Today was also their last day of practice.  The team will head to the US tomorrow.

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See also:

Japan All-High School Baseball Team's US Schedule

Japan All-High School Baseball Team 2010

The Japan All-High School Baseball Team will get together beginning on the 26th and work out in Japan until the 30th.  They will then head out to Los Angeles on the 31st.  Their schedule in the US includes four games against the Urban Youth Academy and a chance to catch two ballgames (Dodgers vs Phillies on the 1st and Angels vs Indians on the 6th).  The team will then return home on 9/8.

The Japan High School Baseball Federation released the 18-man roster for the team that will be heading out to the US to play in a few friendly matches.

UPDATE 8/30/2010 7:18pm JST - Masataka Watanabe was taken off the roster with pneumonia.

Japan All-High School Baseball Team went 1-1-1 during their recent trip to the United States.

Here are the results:

September 3rd

Japan: Naoki Ito, Tomohiro Yamada W, Sakuya Sato, Hayato Shoji, Kenta Imamiya

HR: Shota Dobayashi (6th inning,  1 on)
2B: Takuro Sarukawa

September 5th

Japan: Toshiya Okada, Naoki Ito, Hayato Shoji W

HR: Kanji Kawai (7th inning, 0 on), Shota Dobayashi (9th inning, 0 on)
2B: Yoshihito Takahashi, Kenta Imamiya, Yasutaka Kashiwaba, Shota Dobayashi

September 6th

Japan: Shota Dobayashi, Takatoshi Shinnishi, Kenta Imamiya

2B: Koji Takeishi, Kanji Kawai

September 7th

Japan: Tomohiro Yamada, Sakuya Sato, Naoki Ito, Toshiya Okada

2B: Kenta Imamiya, Hayato Shoji 2

The Japan All-High School baseball team managed to get on the field at Dodgers Stadium on the 8/2, prior to the start of the Dodgers - D-backs game, to watch pre-game practice.  They also had a chance to meet up with Hiroki Kuroda.

Chukyodai Chukyo's Shota Dobayashi took one look at the Dodger's Stadium and said, "It's huge. This is obviously the Majors." When asked what kinds of things he was going to focus in on during the game, Dobayashi said, "Everyone's individual at bats. I want to have some fun while studying up on the game."

The Japan All-High School baseball team is currently visiting the US to play a few games.  There currently schedule is as follows:

You can see the full rosters for Japan here.

=== Update 9/3 @ 5:17pm JST

Looks like MLB.com has some coverage of the event as well.

This year the annual U.S.-Japan All-Star series has returned to the Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academy and on Wednesday, Urban Youth Academy players and players from the Japan High School Baseball Federation took in a game at Dodger Stadium.

The Japan High School Baseball Federation announced the rosters for the All-Japan High School Team that will be visiting the US to play 3 games in Compton, CA between September 1st and September 9th.

Pitchers

Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Anyone hoping to catch a glimpse of Yusei Kikuchi... Looks like he was taken off the roster because of his injury.

*I'm certainly about the spelling for most of these names, but if anyone happens to find a mistake, please drop me a line.