Call him Nuke Igawa. Kartens took a line drive off the leg in the first inning with none out, leaving the game with two men on. Kei Igawa entered, got out of the inning with a double play and a strikeout, and went on to pitch six innings with six strike outs. He didn't allow a run.

He did however, walks four and throw a wild pitch. At one point, ahead in the count 1-2 to Manny Ramirez, Igawa threw what appeared to be change up over everyone's head. It just reminded me of that scene in Bull Durham when LaLoosh is told to hit the bull, and Crash uses that to scare the hitters. Whatever Kei did today, he kept the Sox hitters off balance as they only picked two hits against him.