Jack Flaherty was named the National League Pitcher of the Month for the second consecutive month.
How did he do it?
-He registered a 3-1 record with 53 strikeouts and a 0.82 ERA across six starts, while limiting the opposition to 17 hits and eight walks. Permitted just a pair of home runs.
-He concluded the regular season with 7.0 scoreless innings and six strikeouts against the Chicago Cubs in his start yesterday.
-He loogged four scoreless starts with at least 7.0 innings pitched over the course of his dominant month.
In the second half of the season, he compiled a 7-2 record with 124 strikeouts, 23 walks and a 0.91 ERA over 99.1 innings pitched and 15 starts. Became the first Major League pitcher since 1915 to record at least 120 strikeouts while posting an ERA of 1.00-or-better in the second half of a season.
He finished his breakout campaign with an 11-8 record to go along with 231 strikeouts, 55 walks and a 2.75 ERA.
Since 1885, he became the third pitcher younger than 24 years old to post a season in which he tallied at least 230 punchouts while permitting 55-or-fewer walks to go along with an ERA of 2.75-or-better, joining Clayton Kershaw (2011) and Mark Prior (2003).
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