Milwaukee Brewers ace Corbin Burnes capped a formidable breakout 2021 season by taking house the NL Cy Younger Award on Wednesday, ending forward of finalists Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Zack Wheeler and Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Max Scherzer.
Burnes narrowly beat out Wheeler for the award, incomes 151 factors to Wheeler’s 141. Each acquired 12 first-place votes; Scherzer earned the opposite six first-place votes.
Burnes completed 2021 with an MLB-low 2.43 ERA, 0.94 WHIP and 234 strikeouts in 167 innings pitched throughout 28 video games. The 27-year-old set a significant league file by starting the season with 58 strikeouts with out a stroll and in August tied a file by placing out 10 straight in a recreation towards the Chicago Cubs. His strikeouts per 9 innings (12.6), strikeout-to-walk ratio and residential runs allowed per 9 innings topped all main leaguers.
Burnes turned the primary Brewers pitcher to win the Cy Younger Award within the NL. The opposite Cy Younger winners for the Brewers, Rollie Ringers in 1981 and Pete Vuckovich in 1982, did so within the AL. The Brewers moved to the NL in 1998.
Milwaukee drafted Burnes within the fourth spherical of the 2016 MLB Draft after he spent his faculty years at Saint Mary’s School of California. Burnes made his main league debut in 2018, when he pitched in 30 video games as a reliever, posting a 2.61 ERA and a 1.00 WHIP. He struggled by 2019, posting a 8.82 ERA with a 1.84 WHIP in 32 video games whereas beginning 4. He posted a powerful season in 2020, pitching in 12 video games and beginning 9 with a 2.11 ERA and 1.02 WHIP in 59.2 innings pitched.
That is Burnes’ first Cy Younger award. In a single recreation this postseason, Burnes went six innings, permitting two hits whereas placing out six batter and strolling three towards the Atlanta Braves.