...day is from 1968, the last time a major league pitcher won 30 games in a season. It was Denny McLain (Carmel Guy) and he went on to become the first pitcher in the American League to win the MVP and the Cy Young Award in the same season. His team, the Detroit Tigers, beat the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series, 4 games to 3. (Coincidentally, Bob Gibson, who bested McLain twice in the Series that year, won the MVP and Cy Young Award in the National League. His ERA was a stingy 1.12.)
As a 19-year old in his first outing for the Tigers, McLain beat his hometown Chicago White Sox. He held the South Siders to one earned run on seven hits, picked two runners off base and even hit a home run, the only one he would ever hit in the majors.
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