In race for Cy Young, deGrom K’s 12 Yanks in W

As Jacob deGrom rumbles into the final stretch of his best season ever, his manager knows “he’s probably going to experience something that he’s never experienced before.” A pitching coach during both of Corey Kluber’s American League Cy Young Award seasons in Cleveland, Mickey Callaway recalls the shift in Kluber’s demeanor during his final half-dozen starts those years. He figures deGrom, similarly, “is going to be in a race for something else and it’s going to mean a lot to him.”