ATLANTA ¨C The Atlanta Braves congratulate LHP Chris Sale on winning the 2024 National League Cy Young Award. Sale secured the honor for the first time in his 14-season career.

Sale, 35, made 29 starts this season and went 18-3 with a 2.38 earned run average (47 ER/177.2 IP), leading the majors in both wins and ERA. He also led the National League in strikeouts, becoming the first Triple Crown winner in the Senior Circuit since Los Angeles¡¯ Clayton Kershaw in 2011. Sale also became the first Triple Crown winner in franchise history.

In addition to this Cy Young victory, Sale¡¯s 2024 performance was also recognized via his eighth career All-Star appearance, a Rawlings Gold Glove Award, a First-Team All-MLB nomination and the National League Comeback Player of the Year Award.

First distributed in 1956, the Cy Young Award has been garnered by a Brave eight times, the second-highest total by any franchise (Los Angeles Dodgers, 12). Sale joins Warren Spahn (1957), Tom Glavine (1991, ¡®98), Greg Maddux (1993-¡®95) and John Smoltz (1996) to achieve the distinction with the team.

Sale, a native of Lakeland, Fla., finished top-six in American League Cy Young voting each year from 2012-¡®18, also achieving A.L. All-Star honors in each of those seasons. Additionally, the 6-foot-6 left-hander received A.L. MVP votes from 2015-¡®18, finishing as high as ninth.

To commemorate this award, the Atlanta Braves will give away a Chris Sale Cy Young Bobblehead for the first 15,000 fans on April 9, presented by Delta Air Lines.