Clayton Kershaw Wins NL Cy Young

[vikesfan]

Left-hander Clayton Kershaw won the NL Cy Young Award on Thursday, becoming the first Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher to be so honored since Eric Gagne in 2003 and the first Dodgers starter to win it since Orel Hershiser in 1988.

Kershaw won the award handily in balloting by a select panel of 32 members of the Baseball Writers Association of America. He received 27 of 32 first-place votes, three seconds and two thirds for a total of 207 points, 74 more than runner-up Roy Halladay of the Philadelphia Phillies.

Halladay received four first-place votes, with the last one going to the Diamondbacks' Ian Kennedy.

[uva3021]

rightfully so, guy went 5-0 against lincecum and i can't imagine any other pitcher in the history of baseball having a better august and september than kershaw, maybe koufax

and obv we won 20x on his cy young future

[Kacknballz]

CK 4 Life!!

[be47320]

Originally Posted by uva3021

rightfully so, guy went 5-0 against lincecum and i can't imagine any other pitcher in the history of baseball having a better august and september than kershaw, maybe koufax

and obv we won 20x on his cy young future

u posted derek lowe future

[Windy City Irish]

UVA still reeling from touting Barry Zito....damaged him for life

[uva3021]

amazing memory recall, must be all the zima

[The Nac]

I don't agree with Doc getting that many votes over Kennedy. Considering the 2 lineups, I think Kennedy's year was better than Halladay's.

That being said, there was no way Kershaw wasn't winning this.