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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2008
Cy Young goes to Lincecum
Second-year pitcher takes home NL's prestigious award
BY MIKE FITZPATRICK
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Tim Lincecum won the National League Cy Young Award by a comfortable margin Tuesday, taking home pitching's highest honor in his second major league season.
The slender kid with the whirling windup joined Mike McCormick (1967) as the only San Francisco Giants pitchers to win a Cy Young.
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
"I was definitely surprised. I thought it was going to be a lot closer," Lincecum said on a conference call.
"People have been doubting me my whole life. I don't let them bring me down."
finished second with 73 points.
Listed at 5-foot-11 and 160 pounds, tiny by today's standards for a big league pitcher, Lincecum defied detractors — and the laws of physics — by firing 97 mph fastballs past one hulking slugger after another.
place team that finished 72-90.
"People have been doubting me my whole life," he said. "I don't let them bring me down."
The 24-year-old right-hander was 18-5 with a 2.62 ERA and a major league-best 265 strikeouts, remarkable numbers for a fourth-
New York Mets ace Johan Santana, who led the league in
He made his first All-Star squad, but an illness prevented him from appearing in the July 15 game at Yankee Stadium.
Lincecum led the NL in winning percentage (.783), ranked second in ERA and was third with 227 innings.
TIM LINNECUM San Francisco Giants pitcher
ERA (2.53)
ERA (2.53)
and innings
(234 1-3),
also garnered
four first-place
votes and came
in third.
The other first-place vote went to Milwaukee lefty CC Sabathia, last
year's AL winner who was traded by Cleveland into the National League on July 7.
He went 11-2 with a 1.65 ERA and seven complete games in 17 starts for the Brewers, pitching them to their first playoff berth since 1982.
"I definitely thought he was in fair contention," Lincecum said.
Sabathia came in fifth. Brad Lidge, the star closer who had a perfect season for the World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies, was fourth.
Webb, the NL winner in 2006, was runner-up for the second consecutive season after going 22-7 with a 3.30 ERA in 226 2-3 innings.
The baby-faced Lincecum, nicknamed "Franchise", is an aberration in almost every way. He eats junk food before starts and doesn't ice his arm. When he was called up from the minors in May 2007, ballpark security workers in San Francisco thought he was a bat boy.
Late this season, some teammates even asked for his autograph
- including veteran catcher Bengie Molina.
"The key is to continue to get better," said Giants outfielder Randy Winn. "With the usage of video that hitters use, now people are going to see him a little more. People are going to have a better idea of what his pitches look like and how he attacks hitters. The pitchers who have been good for a long time are pitchers who continue to get better."
Drafted 10th overall out of Washington in 2006, Lincecum said his major league experience last season definitely helped him succeed this year.
He also credited an improved changeup, which he threw more often after finding a comfortable grip.
"I've always taken pride in trying to strike people out. I've always been that guy," he said. "That's the one (statistic) that kind of gets me fired up."
SAN FRANCISCO Giants pitcher Tim Linecum works against the Arizona Diamondbacks during a baseball game in Phoenix. Lincecum is the National League Cy Young Award winner, taking home pitching's highest honor in his second major league season. The slender kid with the whirling windup on Tuesday joined Mike McCormick (1967) as the only San Francisco Giants pitchers to win a Cy Young.
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