August 25, 1985
It was on this day in 1985 that
New York Mets’ pitcher Dwight Gooden, becomes the youngest pitcher in the
history of Major League Baseball to post twenty wins in a season. The man
nicknamed Dr. K is twenty years, nine months and nine days old, 27 days younger
than Bob Feller was when the Cleveland hurler won his twenty games in 1939.
Gooden pitches six innings,
giving up two earned runs while striking out four, in a 9-3 win over the San
Diego in New York’s Shea Stadium. He would finish the season with a National
League leading 24 wins and capture the NL’s Cy Young Award.
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