Max Scherzer, as it turns out, is the guy who can beat the Chicago Cubs. Scherzer, the Washington Nationals ace won the NL Cy Young award on Wednesday, beating out two Cubs starters.
Scherzer received 25 of 30 first-place votes from the Baseball Writers Association of America. Jon Lester finished second and Kyle Hendricks was third. Notably: Jose Fernandez, the Miami Marlins ace who died in a September boating accident finished seventh.
By winning in the NL, Scherzer has now won the Cy Young in both leagues, having won it in 2013 with the Detroit Tigers. He’s now the sixth pitcher in MLB history to win the Cy Young in both leagues. He’s also the first pitcher in Nationals franchise history to win the award.
Scherzer’s Cy Young case hung on a few of baseball’s top pitching pillars — he led the NL with 20 wins, led all of baseball with 284 strikeouts and logged a workhorse-like 228 1/3 innings, which also led the National League.
There were a lot of great pitchers in the NL this year (as proof, we haven’t even mentioned Madison Bumgarner of Noah Syndergaard yet) but Scherzer had the best across-the-board case. In addition to the wins, Ks and innings, he had a very respectable 2.96 ERA in 34 starts.
Here’s a full rundown of the voting:
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