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Chris Sale's comeback season has ended with the expected result: He's the National League Cy Young winner, capturing his first Cy Young Award over Philadelphia's Zack Wheeler with 26 of the 30 first-place votes.
Sale, the 35-year-old lefty for the Atlanta Braves, finished 18-3 with a 2.38 ERA and 225 strikeouts -- leading the National League in all three Triple Crown pitching categories (wins, ERA and strikeouts). He joined Detroit's Tarik Skubal as a Triple Crown winner -- the first by pitchers in a full season since Clayton Kershaw and Justin Verlander did it in 2011 (Shane Bieber did it in the COVID-shortened 2020 season).