Baseball: Yu Darvish named National League Pitcher of the Month

Chicago Cubs right-hander Yu Darvish won National League Pitcher of the Month honors for July and August, Major League Baseball announced Wednesday.Darvish has a 6-1 record with a 1.47 earned run average in seven starts so far this season and has been touted as a potential Cy Young Award candidate because of his high-quality performances to start the shortened regular season.He becomes the first Japanese pitcher to win the award in either the National or American leagues since the New York Yankees' Masahiro Tanaka took the honor in May 2014, and fourth Japanese pitcher overall. Hideo Nomo a…READ FULL ARTICLE