NEW YORK -- C.C. Sabathia won the AL Cy Young Award on Tuesday, beating out several worthy contenders by a comfortable margin and becoming the first Cleveland pitcher in 35 years to earn the honor.
AL Cy Young Voting
C.C. Sabathia, who pitched a major league-high 241 innings and won 19 games for the Indians, comfortably beat Josh Beckett to win his first Cy Young award.
| Pitcher | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Total |
| Sabathia, Cle | 19 | 8 | -- | 119 |
| Josh Beckett, Bos | 8 | 14 | 4 | 86 |
| John Lackey, L.A. | 1 | 5 | 16 | 36 |
| Others receiving votes: Fausto Carmona, Cle, 7; Erik Bedard, Bal, 1; Roy Halladay, Tor, 1; Johan Santana, Min, 1. | ||||
The Indians ace received 19 of 28 first-place votes and finished with 119 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Boston's Josh Beckett was second with eight first-place votes and 86 points, while John Lackey of the Los Angeles Angels got the other first-place vote and came in third.
Sabathia went 19-7 with a 3.21 ERA and 209 strikeouts, pitching a major league-high 241 innings. Beckett (20-7) became the only big league pitcher to win 20 games since 2005, compiling a 3.27 ERA in 200 2-3 innings. Lackey led the AL in ERA at 3.01, going 19-9 and tossing 224 innings.
Voting took place before the postseason, when Sabathia struggled while Beckett pitched the Red Sox to a World Series championship with a string of dominant outings.
Sabathia became the first Indians pitcher to win the award since Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry in 1972.
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press
Source: ESPN.com
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