Giants' Lincecum wins NL Cy Young Award

Sports Digest

November 12, 2008

Tim Lincecum won the National League Cy Young Award by a comfortable margin yesterday, taking home pitching's highest honor in his second majorleague season. The slender kid with the whirling windup joined Mike McCormick (1967) as the only San Francisco Giants pitchers to win a Cy Young Award. The right-hander, 24, received 23 of 32 first-place votes and 137 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Brandon Webb of the Arizona Diamondbacks got four first-place votes and finished second with 73 points. Listed at 5feet11 and 160 pounds, Lincecum was 18-5 with a 2.62 ERA and a major league-best 265strikeouts for a fourth-place team that finished 72-90. New York Mets ace Johan Santana also garnered four first-place votes and came in third. The other first-place vote went to Milwaukee Brewers left-hander CC Sabathia, last year's American League winner who was traded by the Cleveland Indians into the NL on July7.

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