Los Angeles Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw and the Detroit Tigers' Max Scherzer claimed Cy Young awards as the MLB's top pitchers of 2013.
Kershaw won the National League Cy Young for the second time in three years while Scherzer became the second Tiger in three years to win the American League Cy Young.
Both were overwhelming choices following their outstanding 2013 seasons.
Scherzer, the major league leader with 21 wins, received 28 of a possible 30 first-place votes to easily outdistance the Japanese duo of Texas Rangers right-hander Yu Darvish and Seattle ace Hisashi Iwakuma.
Having emerged as the ace of a formidable Tigers staff that also contained 2011 AL Cy Young winner Justin Verlander, Scherzer enjoyed a career year to help Detroit reach the American League Championship Series for a third straight year.
He won 13 straight to open the season and finished with a 21-3 record.
Kershaw didn't win as many games as Scherzer, but his was a dominant season.
He captured a third straight National League Earned Run Average title with an MLB-best 1.83 mark, led the NL in strikeouts with 232 and finished with a 16-9 record for the Dodgers, who won the NL West division.
The 25-year-old played a key role in the Dodgers' second-half surge into the playoffs.
In 13 outings after the All-Star break, Kershaw went 8-3 with a 1.59 ERA and struck out 93 hitters.
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