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SWB Yankees 4 Lehigh Valley 0 4/3

By: Import User
Updated: April 6, 2008
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Thursday night was supposed to be about the IronPigs…finally taking the field to end a 47-year draught of affiliated baseball in the Lehigh Valley.
Instead, it was about Kei Igawa.
The left-handed native of Ibaraki, Japan, started a one-hit shutout by tossing six innings of perfect baseball as the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees defeated the IronPigs, 4-0, in the season opener. For Lehigh Valley, it was an inauspicious way to start franchise history. For Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, the win snapped an eight-year Opening day losing streak.
The IronPigs potent offense was held hitless by Igawa, who left after just 60 pitches in six innings. OF Brandon Watson had the IronPigs only hit of the night – a leadoff single in the seventh off reliever Scott Patterson. The inning marked the only major threat of the night, as Valentino Pascucci drew a walk to put two on with two outs. But the threat went by the wayside when Mike Cervenak’s deep fly ball was caught on the warning track by RF Jason Lane.
Igawa (1-0) fanned seven in his six perfect innings. The shutout was preserved by Patterson, Edwar Ramirez and Jose Veras who threw an inning apiece.
Igawa, who signed a five-year, $20 million contract with the Yankees on December 27, 2006, failed to meet expectations in 2007. He managed to go just 2-3 with a 6.25 ERA in 14 games and 12 starts with the New York Yankees before being optioned to the minors.
The Yankees jumped on top in the second inning on a solo home run by Jason Lane off LHP J.A. Happ. They added an additional run in the second and single runs in the fourth and fifth innings to build a 4-0 lead. Happ (1-0) lasted four innings, allowing five hits and three runs while walking one and fanning four. DH Eric Duncan finished with the only multi-hit performance of the game, going 2-3 with a triple, a run and an RBI.

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