News about Blake Snell

On Wednesday, New York Yankees pitcher Gerrit Cole was named unanimous American League Cy Young Award winner. Cole was named the first time in his 11-year career that he was named Cy Young champion. He came close to winning the award several times in his career before receiving all 30 votes this time. To lead the league in innings, the ace right-hander finished the season with 15 victories, four losses, and a 2.63 ERA in 209 innings. He was both the sixth Yankees pitcher to win a Cy Young and first since Roger Clemens in 2001.

Congratulations, you've made it. The baseball offseason is over, and we're going full steam ahead of Opening Day on Thursday. Pitchers from all 30 MLB clubs will take the field in just a few hours, with fresh optimism and renewed hope that this is going to be *their* year. There have been a slew of changes, none of which we'll discuss here, but there is certainly more excitement among fans than ever before.

Padres catcher Austin Nola face Phillies starter Aaron Nola - his brother in a match awaited all day. Austin scored a single off Aaron in the fifth round, bringing the Padres closer to tying the Phillies. San Diego won Game 2 of the NLCS 8-5 after scoring five runs in the fifth inning, along with two runs in the bottom of the second. Since shelling Padres starter Blake Snell in the top of the second, Philadelphia once led 4-0. The Phillies had two RBI singles, an RBI double, and a sacrifice ground out, bringing home all the runs required for them to take the lead.

The Dodgers were held to one run on six hits on Friday night, with Blake Snell and four relievers securing the Dodgers' third postseason homers in their best-of-five National League Division Series, with Trent Grisham's third home run. The Dodgers will be eliminated from the Dodgers after winning by 111 in the regular season on Saturday night. Snell earned the win, pitching 5 1/3 innings and holding the Dodgers to one run on five hits and two walks with six strikeouts.

Darvish threw seven strong innings, Padres four homers off Max Scherzer, and San Diego cruised to a 7-1 victory over the host New York Mets in the first of a best-of-three National League wild-card series on Friday. As Josh Bell, Trent Grisham, Jurickson Profar, and Manny Machado all went deep for San Diego as Scherzer gave up the most homers he had lost in a postseason game. The foursome received their highest rating from any regular-season game, a figure that the three-time Cy Young Award reached three times before. The fifth-seeded Padres will sweep the ground on Saturday night behind left-hander Blake Snell. The Mets had yet to name a starter, but it is expected that they would send their co-ace, two-time Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom, to the octagon in the must-win competition.