{"id":184970,"date":"2019-11-14T08:22:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T14:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=184970"},"modified":"2019-11-14T22:37:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T04:37:18","slug":"2019-cy-young-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=184970","title":{"rendered":"2019 Cy Young Award winners &#8211;  deGrom, Verlander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-168248\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/degrom-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/degrom-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/degrom-431x243.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/degrom-311x175.jpg 311w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/degrom.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Jacob deGrom has become the 11th player to win a Cy Young Award in consecutive years, while Justin Verlander has captured the postseason honor for the second time and first since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>DeGrom took NL honors after leading the league with 255 strikeouts and finishing second with a 2.43 ERA for the New York Mets. DeGrom totaled 204 innings, compared to 172 1\/3 for Washington\u2019s Max Scherzer and 182 2\/3 for Hyun-Jin Ryu (hyoon-jihn ree-OO\u2019) of the Dodgers. Ryu finished second in the balloting conducted by the Baseball Writers\u2019 Association of America, just ahead of Scherzer.<\/p>\n<p>DeGrom joins Tom Seaver as the only Met to win multiple Cy Young awards.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-184985\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/VerlanderJustin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"100\" \/>Verlander beat out Houston Astros teammate Gerrit Cole for the AL Award. Verlander led the majors with 21 victories and reached 300 strikeouts in a season for the first time. He no-hit Toronto on Sept. 1 and padded his Hall of Fame resume by getting his 3,000th strikeout in his final start of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Rays righty Charlie Morton finished third a year after leaving Houston in free agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Jacob deGrom has become the 11th player to win a Cy Young Award in consecutive years, while Justin Verlander has captured the postseason honor for the second time and first since 2011. DeGrom took NL honors after leading the league with 255 strikeouts and finishing second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184970"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185049,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184970\/revisions\/185049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}