Normally a post-season baseball award doesn't permeate into pop culture.
But this has exactly what has happened after Boston Red Sox pitcher Rick Porcello winning his first AL Cy Young Award. Evidently, Porcello's league leading 22 wins did not impress one Kate Upton. The supermodel's boyfriend, Justin Verlander, finished runner up in the AL Cy Young balloting. Verlander, who won the AL Cy Young and the AL MVP in 2011, had a renaissance season leading the AL in strikeouts with 254.
Upton took to Twitter and wrote, "Hey MLB, I thought was the only person allowed to fuck Justin Verlander?! What 2 writers didn't have him on their ballot?"
While Upton directed her ire at the BBWAA, I wonder if she has a dislike for Porcello who was teammates with Verlander in Detroit from 2009 through 2014. Perhaps there is bad blood between the two former Tigers.
Well, I'm sure one of Verlander's other former Tigers teammates is grateful to pitching in the National League. Max Scherzer, who won AL Cy Young honors for the Tigers in 2013, won his 2nd Cy Young with the Washington Nationals. Scherzer becomes the sixth pitcher to win Cy Youngs in both the AL and NL. The others include Gaylord Perry, Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, Roger Clemens and Roy Halladay. Scherzer led the NL in wins (20), strikeouts (284) and innings pitched (228 1/3) and also had a 20 strikeout game against his former Tigers teammates,
Tomorrow, the AL and NL MVP Awards are announced.
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