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Zack Greinke in Cy Young balloting
- 2009: first (AL)
- 2013: eighth (NL)
- 2014: seventh (NL)
- 2015: second (NL)
Clayton Kershaw in NL Cy Young balloting
- 2011: first
- 2012: second
- 2013: first
- 2014: first
- 2015: third
Dodger MLB Cy Young Award winners
*unanimous
- 1956: Don Newcombe
- 1962: Don Drysdale
- 1963: Sandy Koufax*
- 1965: Sandy Koufax*
- 1966: Sandy Koufax*
Dodger NL Cy Young Award winners
*unanimous
- 1974: Mike Marshall
- 1981: Fernando Valenzuela
- 1988: Orel Hershiser*
- 2003: Eric Gagne
- 2011: Clayton Kershaw
- 2013: Clayton Kershaw
- 2014: Clayton Kershaw*
By Jon Weisman
Despite the lowest ERA in the Major Leagues in 20 years, Zack Greinke will go into the offseason without the National League Cy Young Award.
Greinke missed becoming the ninth Dodger pitcher to win the trophy, falling to Jake Arrieta in this year’s vote by the Baseball Writers Association of America.
If four of Greinke’s 17 second-place votes had put him first, Greinke would have won the award.
Finishing third was three-time winner Clayton Kershaw, who did receive three first-place votes.
No ballot put Arrieta or Greinke outside of the top three, while two voters had Gerrit Cole of the Pirates in third place.
Greinke had a 1.66 ERA — the lowest in the big leagues since Greg Maddux in 1995 — and an adjusted ERA of 225 (best since Roger Clemens in 2005). He also led the Majors in WHIP (0.84) and win probability added (6.72).
This year’s balloting marked the first time that a pair of teammates ranked among the top three Cy Young vote-getters since 2011 (Philadelphia’s Halladay and Cliff Lee) and the first time for two Dodger pitchers since 1974, when Mike Marshall won the award and Andy Messersmith was the runner-up.
Two different Dodgers haven’t won the award in consecutive years since Don Drysdale (1962) and Sandy Koufax (1963).
