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The Warren Spahn Award is presented each season by the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame to the best left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). The award is named after Warren Spahn, who holds the MLB record in wins for a left-handed pitcher with 363. [1]
To all the southpaws out there, congratulations! Today's your day to enjoy the quirks that come with being left-handed. On this day, we celebrate your handedness, as well as that of the legendary ...
On August 9, the New York Yankees Major League record of 2,665 consecutive games played without having been held scoreless, in back-to-back contests, was snapped when Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Marco Estrada tossed a 2–0 shutout win at Yankee Stadium. Left-handed pitcher David Price blanked New York, 6–0, on the previous day. [87]
Among Yankees pitchers, he ranks first in strikeouts (2,011) [27] and third in wins (213). [28] [29] He was named the 2001 American League Championship Series Most Valuable Player [30] [31] and won the Warren Spahn Award in 2003 as the best left-handed pitcher in baseball. [32] His #46 was retired on 23 August 2015.
The pitcher generally has an advantage when his handedness is the same as the batter's, and the batter has an advantage when they are opposite. [4] This is because a right-handed pitcher's breaking balls move to the left from the pitcher's perspective, which causes it to cross the plate with its lateral movement away from a right-handed batter but towards a left-handed batter (and vice versa ...
This is a list of Major League Baseball (MLB) pitchers with 200 or more career wins. In the sport of baseball, a win is a statistic credited to the pitcher for the winning team who was in the game when his team last took the lead. A starting pitcher must complete five innings to earn a win; if this does not happen, the official scorer awards ...
Inside Pitching reports that in. By ERIC LYONS On International Left-Handers Day, August 13th, the world pauses to celebrate the minority -- the 10-percent of the population who are left-hand ...
Kershaw won the Warren Spahn Award for 2013, the second time he had won the award, which honors the best left-handed pitcher in the MLB. [83] On November 13, he won the NL Cy Young Award for the second time in three seasons. He became just the sixth pitcher in history to finish in the top two in voting in three consecutive seasons. [84]