Dodgers’ Kershaw wins 3rd NL Cy Young Award
NEW YORK — Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw was a unanimous winner for his third NL Cy Young Award after leading the majors in victories and ERA and throwing a no-hitter.
Kershaw earned the honor for the second year in a row, getting all 30 first-place votes in balloting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America announced Wednesday.
Kershaw went 21-3 with a 1.77 ERA for the NL West champions.
The 26-year-old lefty will find out Thursday whether he’s the first NL pitcher to sweep the MVP and Cy Young prizes since Bob Gibson in 1968.
Johnny Cueto of Cincinnati was second in the Cy Young voting and Adam Wainwright of St. Louis was third.
Voting was completed before the start of the postseason. Kershaw went 0-2 with a 7.82 ERA in a Division Series loss to St. Louis.
Cleveland’s Corey Kluber won the AL Cy Young Award, edging Seattle’s Felix Hernandez.
Kluber received 17 of 30 first-place votes and 169 points in balloting announced Wednesday by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Hernandez got 13 firsts and 159 points, and Chris Sale of the Chicago White Sox was third with 78 points.
A 28-year-old right-hander, Kluber went 18-9 with a 2.44 ERA in his first full major league season with 269 strikeouts, two behind league leader David Price. Kluber had consecutive 14-strikeout games in September, the first to accomplish the feat since Arizona’s Randy Johnson in 2004.
Kluber, who gets a $10,000 bonus, became Cleveland’s fourth Cy Young winner, joining Gaylord Perry (1972), CC Sabathia (2007) and Cliff Lee (2008).
