Cole Kanazawa’s right arm isn’t made of anything different from any other person’s.

But he’s a side-arm thrower, which is why he was able to pull off a rare feat in baseball over the weekend.

The Pacific (Ore.) senior somehow wasn’t named the Northwest Conference pitcher of the week on Monday despite earning a win and three saves in four Pacific wins — all in the span of three days.

Four times in 48 hours, Kanazawa was called up in the bullpen to get hot and it wasn’t a wasted effort.

His first appearance was a three-inning outing Friday in a 10-7 win over Pacific Lutheran. With the score tied to start the seventh, Kanazawa put up three straight zeros and allowed just two hits with no walks and five strikeouts. That gave the Boxers’ offense time to score three runs to pull out their first victory of the season.

On Saturday, Kanazawa entered to start the eighth inning with a 4-1 lead against Whitworth (Wash.) and allowed one hit and one walk in two shutout innings with two strikeouts to earn his first save.

Sunday was a doubleheader against Lewis &Clark and Whitman (Wash.). Kanazawa told his coach, “By some miracle, I feel incredible,” and was called upon to record the last four outs for his second save in a 5-3 victory over the Pioneers.

Not done just yet, Kanazawa was called on with the bases loaded and one out in the ninth inning of a 3-1 game against the Blues. The 5-foot-9 Punahou alumnus ended his weekend with a flyout and a strikeout for his third save and a fourth consecutive Pacific victory.

“I never thought I’d be throwing four games in a row, but as a competitor, I loved every second of it,” said Kanazawa, who threw 119 total pitches over the four games. “I want to be out there fighting with my brothers behind me every time.”

After making only five appearances over his first two seasons, Kanazawa was approached by his head coach, Brian Billings, in the offseason before his junior year.

Billings wanted to tinker with Kanazawa’s mechanics and try something completely new.

Ready for anything, Kanazawa made the move from an over-the-top motion to a side-arm throw that puts less stress on the arm while also allowing him to get more movement on his pitches.

As a junior, Kanazawa more than tripled his total number of appearances and posted a 3.86 ERA in 35 innings with 25 strikeouts.

After last week, it’s clear Kanazawa will be the team’s stopper moving forward in his final year with the Boxers.

“It feels great,” said Kanazawa, who has yet to give up an earned run in 112⁄3 innings with 10 strikeouts and only seven hits allowed. “It’s been a long journey since freshman year and time has flown by. Mentally through the entire offseason I have been preparing myself (to close).”

Pacific debuted its new field in Friday’s home opener. The school had turf installed after playing on dirt. In past years, the Boxers would be as much as a month into the season before they could even practice on their home field because of the wet weather.

This season, they’ve been out there since their first spring practice, rain or shine.

“It’s such a huge difference,” Kanazawa said. “Especially in Oregon, where we couldn’t even practice on it until the season started last year with all of the rain. (The turf) gets a little slick, but it’s actually been a lot of sunshine, which is unusual up here for February.”

Pacific opened the season in Louisiana playing four games, including two against No. 20 Centenary.

The Boxers went 0-4 on that season-opening trip but came home to beat four Northwest Conference opponents in non-league games. League play begins Saturday against Whitman.

“(The Louisiana trip) was a rough travel day for us, but we played some good teams and I think that despite us going 0-4, it really helped to see where we were and I think we carried a lot of momentum from those games into last weekend,” Kanazawa said.

Pacific has had just one winning record in conference play since 2012, but last week’s performance suggests expectations are high on the Forest Grove campus this year.

“I’m really excited because we’ve got some real good young talent,” Kanazawa said. “I think this is one of the most tightly knit groups that I’ve ever been a part of.

“I just think the grittiness of this team is going to do a lot of good this year and no one is doubting we can do something real special with the guys that we got.”