DETROIT -- For the first time in a quarter century, an American League pitcher has won back-to-back Cy Young Awards. Tarik Skubal repeated the feat, beating out Boston’s Garrett Crochet and Houston’s Hunter Brown in voting announced on Wednesday .

Skubal i s the first repeat AL Cy Young winner since Pedro Martinez in 1999 and 2000. He joins Denny McLain as the only Tigers to win multiple Cy Youngs with Detroit. Like Skubal, McLain won his consecutively, in 1968 and '69. Hall of Famer Hal Newhouser won back-to-back AL MVP Awards in 1944 and '45, a decade before the Cy Young Award was created.

Skubal wasn’t a unanimous winner this year, but he received 26 of 30 first-place votes (198 points) , with the other four going to Crochet (132 points). The two southpaws were first or second

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