Thursday, November 19, 2009

Lincecum Wins Second Straight NL Cy Young

In a very close contest, San Francisco's Tim Lincecum beat out St. Louis right-handers Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainwright to take home the 2009 NL Cy Young award. In 32 games for the Giants this season, Lincecum went 15-7, with a 2.48 ERA, a 1.05 WHIP, and in 225.1 innings pitched he allowed 62 earned runs on 168 hits, walked 68, and struck out an NL best 261.

Here's how the voting went down:

1st

2nd

3rd

Points

Tim Lincecum

11

12

9

100

Chris Carpenter

9

14

7

94

Adam Wainwright

12

5

15

90

Javier Vazquez

1

3

Dan Haren

1

1

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