Major League Baseball Pitcher of the Month

The Pitcher of the Month award is a Major League Baseball award named by each league for each month of the regular season. The National League started recognizing the award in 1975. The American League followed in 1979. Upon the introduction of each league's award, pitchers became ineligible for the (position players') player of the month award.

Awards by month, 1975 to date

Players listed with multiple occurrences are denoted by parentheses containing the ordinal.

Year	Month	National League		American League
		Player(s)	Team(s)	Player(s)	Team(s)
1975 to 1979
1975	April	Don Sutton	Los Angeles Dodgers
	May	Don Sutton (2)	Los Angeles Dodgers
	June	Tom Seaver	New York Mets
	July	Al Hrabosky	St Louis Cardinals
	August	Burt Hooton	Los Angeles Dodgers
	September	Burt Hooton (2)	Los Angeles Dodgers
1976	April	Randy Jones	San Diego Padres
	May	Randy Jones (2)	San Diego Padres
	June	Andy Messersmith	Atlanta Braves
	July	Jerry Koosman	New York Mets
	August	Ray Burris	Chicago Cubs
	September	Don Sutton (3)	Los Angeles Dodgers
1977	April	Tom Seaver (2)	New York Mets
	May	Bruce Sutter	Chicago Cubs
	June	Rick Reuschel	Chicago Cubs
	July	Rick Reuschel (2)	Chicago Cubs
	August	Tom Seaver (3)	Cincinnati Reds
	September	Larry Christenson	Philadelphia Phillies
1978	April	Ross Grimsley	Montreal Expos
	May	Bob Knepper	San Francisco Giants
	June	Vida Blue	San Francisco Giants
	July	J. R. Richard	Houston Astros
	August	Kent Tekulve	Pittsburgh Pirates
	September	Gaylord Perry	San Diego Padres
1979	April	Ken Forsch	Houston Astros	Tommy John	New York Yankees
	May	Joe Niekro	Houston Astros	Jim Kern	Texas Rangers
	June	Joaquín Andújar	Houston Astros	Mark Clear	California Angels
	July	Dick Tidrow	Chicago Cubs	Sid Monge	Cleveland Indians
	August	Rick Reuschel (3)	Chicago Cubs	Rick Langford	Oakland Athletics
	September	J.R. Richard (2)	Houston Astros	Goose Gossage	New York Yankees
1980 to 1989
1980	April	J.R. Richard (3)	Houston Astros	Dave Stieb	Toronto Blue Jays
	May	Steve Carlton	Philadelphia Phillies	Chuck Rainey	Boston Red Sox
	June	Jerry Reuss	Los Angeles Dodgers	Steve Stone	Baltimore Orioles
	July	Pat Zachry	New York Mets	Larry Gura	Kansas City Royals
	August	Rick Reuschel (4)	Chicago Cubs	Bob Stanley	Boston Red Sox
	September	Marty Bystrom	Philadelphia Phillies	Tim Stoddard	Baltimore Orioles
1981	April	Fernando Valenzuela	Los Angeles Dodgers	Matt Keough	Oakland Athletics
	May	Charlie Lea	Montreal Expos	Mark Clear (2)	Boston Red Sox
	June	1981 Major League Baseball strike
	July
	August	Rick Camp Ed Whitson	Atlanta Braves San Francisco Giants	Ron Guidry	New York Yankees
	September	Tom Seaver (4)	Cincinnati Reds	Dennis Martínez Larry Gura (2)	Baltimore Orioles Kansas City Royals
1982	April	Steve Rogers	Montreal Expos	Geoff Zahn	California Angels
	May	Dick Ruthven	Philadelphia Phillies	LaMarr Hoyt	Chicago White Sox
	June	Steve Howe	Los Angeles Dodgers	Jim Beattie	Seattle Mariners
	July	John Candelaria	Pittsburgh Pirates	Tippy Martinez	Baltimore Orioles
	August	Nolan Ryan	Houston Astros	Jim Palmer	Baltimore Orioles
	September	Joaquín Andújar (2)	St Louis Cardinals	Rick Sutcliffe	Cleveland Indians
1983	April	Pascual Pérez	Atlanta Braves	Rick Honeycutt	Texas Rangers
	May	Bill Laskey	San Francisco Giants	Dave Stieb (2)	Toronto Blue Jays
	June	Burt Hooton (3)	Los Angeles Dodgers	Charlie Hough	Texas Rangers
	July	Joe Price	Cincinnati Reds	Scott McGregor	Baltimore Orioles
	August	Jesse Orosco	New York Mets	Jack Morris	Detroit Tigers
	September	John Denny	Philadelphia Phillies	Richard Dotson	Chicago White Sox
1984	April	Rick Honeycutt (2)	Los Angeles Dodgers	Jack Morris (2)	Detroit Tigers
	May	Nolan Ryan (2)	Houston Astros	Mike Boddicker	Baltimore Orioles
	June	Ron Darling	New York Mets	Charlie Hough (2)	Texas Rangers
	July	Orel Hershiser	Los Angeles Dodgers	Willie Hernández	Detroit Tigers
	August	Rick Sutcliffe (2)	Chicago Cubs	Roger Clemens	Boston Red Sox
	September	Dwight Gooden	New York Mets	Doyle Alexander	Toronto Blue Jays
1985	April	Fernando Valenzuela (2)	Los Angeles Dodgers	Charlie Leibrandt	Kansas City Royals
	May	Andy Hawkins	San Diego Padres	Dave Stieb (3)	Toronto Blue Jays
	June	John Tudor	St Louis Cardinals	Jay Howell	Oakland Athletics
	July	Fernando Valenzuela (3)	Los Angeles Dodgers	Bret Saberhagen	Kansas City Royals
	August	Shane Rawley	Philadelphia Phillies	Dave Righetti	New York Yankees
	September	Dwight Gooden (2)	New York Mets	Charlie Leibrandt (2)	Kansas City Royals
1986	April	Dwight Gooden (3)	New York Mets	Roger Clemens (2)	Boston Red Sox
	May	Jeff Reardon	Montreal Expos	Don Aase	Baltimore Orioles
	June	Rick Rhoden	Pittsburgh Pirates	Roger Clemens (3)	Boston Red Sox
	July	Todd Worrell	St Louis Cardinals	Jack Morris (3)	Detroit Tigers
	August	Bill Gullickson	Cincinnati Reds	Mike Witt	California Angels
	September	Mike Krukow	San Francisco Giants	Bruce Hurst	Boston Red Sox
1987	April	Sid Fernandez	New York Mets	Bret Saberhagen (2)	Kansas City Royals
	May	Steve Bedrosian	Philadelphia Phillies	Jim Clancy	Toronto Blue Jays
	June	Orel Hershiser (2)	Los Angeles Dodgers	Steve Ontiveros	Oakland Athletics
	July	Floyd Youmans	Montreal Expos	Frank Viola	Minnesota Twins
	August	Doug Drabek	Pittsburgh Pirates	Mark Langston	Seattle Mariners
	September	Pascual Pérez (2)	Montreal Expos	Doyle Alexander (2)	Detroit Tigers
1988	April	Orel Hershiser (3)	Los Angeles Dodgers	Dave Stewart	Oakland Athletics
	May	David Cone	New York Mets	Frank Viola (2)	Minnesota Twins
	June	Greg Maddux	Chicago Cubs	Mark Gubicza	Kansas City Royals
	July	John Franco	Cincinnati Reds	Roger Clemens (4)	Boston Red Sox
	August	Danny Jackson	Cincinnati Reds	Mark Langston (2)	Seattle Mariners
	September	Orel Hershiser (4)	Los Angeles Dodgers	Bruce Hurst (2)	Boston Red Sox
1989	April	Mark Davis	San Diego Padres	Jeff Ballard (2)	Baltimore Orioles
	May	Rick Reuschel (5)	San Francisco Giants	Chuck Finley	California Angels
	June	Mike Scott	Houston Astros	Mark Gubicza (2)	Kansas City Royals
	July	Mark Langston (3)	Montreal Expos	Mike Moore	Oakland Athletics
	August	Tom Browning	Cincinnati Reds	Bret Saberhagen (3)	Kansas City Royals
	September	Tim Belcher	Los Angeles Dodgers	Bret Saberhagen (4)	Kansas City Royals
1990 to 1999
1990	April	John Tudor (2)	St Louis Cardinals	Dave Stewart (2)	Oakland Athletics
	May	Jack Armstrong	Cincinnati Reds	Bobby Thigpen	Chicago White Sox
	June	Ramón Martinez	Los Angeles Dodgers	Randy Johnson	Seattle Mariners
	July	Danny Darwin Doug Drabek (2)	Houston Astros Pittsburgh Pirates	Chuck Finley (2) Bobby Witt	California Angels Texas Rangers
	August	Doug Drabek (3)	Pittsburgh Pirates	Roger Clemens (5)	Boston Red Sox
	September	Dwight Gooden (4)	New York Mets	Dave Stewart (3)	Oakland Athletics
1991	April	Lee Smith	St Louis Cardinals	Roger Clemens (6)	Boston Red Sox
	May	Tom Glavine	Atlanta Braves	Scott Erickson	Minnesota Twins
	June	Rob Dibble	Cincinnati Reds	Jack Morris (4)	Minnesota Twins
	July	Dennis Martinez (2)	Montreal Expos	Bill Krueger	Seattle Mariners
	August	Mitch Williams	Philadelphia Phillies	Kevin Tapani	Minnesota Twins
	September	Chris Nabholz	Montreal Expos	Roger Clemens (7)	Boston Red Sox
1992	April	Bill Swift	San Francisco Giants	Bill Krueger (2)	Minnesota Twins
	May	Mike Morgan	Chicago Cubs	Roger Clemens (8)	Boston Red Sox
	June	Randy Tomlin	Pittsburgh Pirates	John Smiley	Minnesota Twins
	July	Tom Glavine (2)	Atlanta Braves	Kevin Appier	Kansas City Royals
	August	Dennis Martinez (3)	Montreal Expos	Roger Clemens (9)	Boston Red Sox
	September	José Rijo	Cincinnati Reds	Cal Eldred	Milwaukee Brewers
1993	April	Ken Hill	Montreal Expos	Jimmy Key	New York Yankees
	May	Tommy Greene	Philadelphia Phillies	Danny Darwin (2)	Boston Red Sox
	June	Darryl Kile Chris Hammond	Houston Astros Florida Marlins	Rick Aguilera	Minnesota Twins
	July	Bill Swift (2)	San Francisco Giants	Fernando Valenzuela (4)	Baltimore Orioles
	August	Greg Maddux (2)	Atlanta Braves	Bill Gullickson (2)	Detroit Tigers
	September	John Wetteland	Montreal Expos	Wilson Alvarez	Chicago White Sox
1994	April	Bob Tewksbury	St Louis Cardinals	Ben McDonald	Baltimore Orioles
	May	Doug Drabek (4)	Houston Astros	David Cone (2)	Kansas City Royals
	June	Roberto Munoz	Philadelphia Phillies	Cal Eldred (2)	Milwaukee Brewers
	July	Bret Saberhagen (5)	New York Mets	Alex Fernandez	Chicago White Sox
	August	1994 Major League Baseball strike
	September
1995	April
	May	Heathcliff Slocumb	Philadelphia Phillies	Kenny Rogers	Texas Rangers
	June	Hideo Nomo	Los Angeles Dodgers	Kevin Appier (2)	Kansas City Royals
	July	Greg Maddux (3)	Atlanta Braves	Tim Wakefield	Boston Red Sox
	August	Sid Fernandez (2)	Philadelphia Phillies	Erik Hanson	Boston Red Sox
	September	Greg Maddux (4)	Atlanta Braves	Norm Charlton	Seattle Mariners
1996	April	John Smoltz	Atlanta Braves	Juan Guzmán	Toronto Blue Jays
	May	John Smoltz (2)	Atlanta Braves	Charles Nagy	Cleveland Indians
	June	Jeff Fassero	Montreal Expos	Orel Hershiser (5)	Cleveland Indians
	July	Jeff Fassero (2)	Montreal Expos	Pat Hentgen	Toronto Blue Jays
	August	Kevin Brown	Florida Marlins	Pat Hentgen (2)	Toronto Blue Jays
	September	Hideo Nomo (2)	Los Angeles Dodgers	Charles Nagy (2)	Cleveland Indians
1997	April	Tom Glavine (3)	Atlanta Braves	Andy Pettitte	New York Yankees
	May	Bobby Jones	New York Mets	Roger Clemens (10)	Toronto Blue Jays
	June	Kent Mercker	Cincinnati Reds	Randy Johnson (2)	Seattle Mariners
	July	Darryl Kile (2)	Houston Astros	Chuck Finley (3) Brad Radke	Anaheim Angels Minnesota Twins
	August	Pedro Martínez	Montreal Expos	Roger Clemens (11)	Toronto Blue Jays
	September	Jeff Shaw	Cincinnati Reds	Jeff Fassero (3)	Seattle Mariners
1998	April	Tom Glavine (4)	Atlanta Braves	Chuck Finley (4)	Anaheim Angels
	May	Orel Hershiser (6)	San Francisco Giants	Hideki Irabu	New York Yankees
	June	Greg Maddux (5)	Atlanta Braves	Bartolo Colón	Cleveland Indians
	July	Chan-ho Park	Los Angeles Dodgers	David Cone (3)	New York Yankees
	August	Randy Johnson (3)	Houston Astros	Roger Clemens (12)	Toronto Blue Jays
	September	Randy Johnson (4)	Houston Astros	Rick Helling	Texas Rangers
1999	April	John Smoltz (3)	Atlanta Braves	Pedro Martinez (2)	Boston Red Sox
	May	Curt Schilling	Philadelphia Phillies	Pedro Martinez (3)	Boston Red Sox
	June	Al Leiter	New York Mets	Pedro Martinez (4)	Boston Red Sox
	July	Randy Johnson (5)	Arizona Diamondbacks	Hideki Irabu (2)	New York Yankees
	August	Greg Maddux (6)	Atlanta Braves	Mariano Rivera	New York Yankees
	September	Denny Neagle	Atlanta Braves	Pedro Martinez (5)	Boston Red Sox
2000 to 2009
2000	April	Randy Johnson (6)	Arizona Diamondbacks	Pedro Martinez (6)	Boston Red Sox
	May	Garrett Stephenson	St Louis Cardinals	James Baldwin	Chicago White Sox
	June	Al Leiter (2)	New York Mets	Cal Eldred (3)	Chicago White Sox
	July	Jeff D'Amico	Milwaukee Brewers	Roger Clemens (13)	New York Yankees
	August	Russ Ortiz	San Francisco Giants	Steve Sparks	Detroit Tigers
	September	Greg Maddux (7)	Atlanta Braves	Tim Hudson	Oakland Athletics
2001	April	Wade Miller	Houston Astros	Brad Radke (2)	Minnesota Twins
	May	Curt Schilling (2)	Arizona Diamondbacks	Pedro Martinez (7)	Boston Red Sox
	June	Greg Maddux (8)	Atlanta Braves	Roger Clemens (14)	New York Yankees
	July	Greg Maddux (9)	Atlanta Braves	Mark Mulder	Oakland Athletics
	August	Javier Vázquez	Montreal Expos	Barry Zito	Oakland Athletics
	September	Woody Williams	St Louis Cardinals	Barry Zito (2)	Oakland Athletics
2002	April	Randy Johnson (7)	Arizona Diamondbacks	Derek Lowe	Boston Red Sox
	May	Curt Schilling (3)	Arizona Diamondbacks	Bartolo Colón (2)	Cleveland Indians
	June	Eric Gagné	Los Angeles Dodgers	Mark Mulder (2)	Oakland Athletics
	July	Curt Schilling (4)	Arizona Diamondbacks	Pedro Martinez (8)	Boston Red Sox
	August	Roy Oswalt	Houston Astros	Cory Lidle	Oakland Athletics
	September	Randy Johnson (8)	Arizona Diamondbacks	Andy Pettitte (2)	New York Yankees
2003	April	Shawn Chacón	Colorado Rockies	Esteban Loaiza	Chicago White Sox
	May	Kevin Brown (2)	Los Angeles Dodgers	Roy Halladay	Toronto Blue Jays
	June	Dontrelle Willis	Florida Marlins	Freddy García	Seattle Mariners
	July	Liván Hernández	Montreal Expos	José Lima	Kansas City Royals
	August	Mark Prior	Chicago Cubs	Johan Santana	Minnesota Twins
	September	Mark Prior (2)	Chicago Cubs	Roy Halladay (2)	Toronto Blue Jays
2004	April	Roger Clemens (15)	Houston Astros	Kevin Brown (3)	New York Yankees
	May	Jason Schmidt	San Francisco Giants	Mark Buehrle	Chicago White Sox
	June	Carl Pavano	Florida Marlins	Mark Mulder (3)	Oakland Athletics
	July	Russ Ortiz (2)	Atlanta Braves	Johan Santana (2)	Minnesota Twins
	August	Jake Peavy	San Diego Padres	Johan Santana (3)	Minnesota Twins
	September	Carlos Zambrano	Chicago Cubs	Johan Santana (4)	Minnesota Twins
2005	April	Dontrelle Willis (2)	Florida Marlins	Jon Garland	Chicago White Sox
	May	Trevor Hoffman	San Diego Padres	Kenny Rogers (2)	Texas Rangers
	June	Chad Cordero	Washington Nationals	Mark Buehrle (2)	Chicago White Sox
	July	Andy Pettitte (3)	Houston Astros	Barry Zito (3)	Oakland Athletics
	August	Noah Lowry	San Francisco Giants	Bartolo Colón (3)	Los Angeles Angels
	September	Andy Pettitte (4)	Houston Astros	José Contreras	Chicago White Sox
2006	April	Greg Maddux (10)	Chicago Cubs	José Contreras (2)	Chicago White Sox
	May	Jason Schmidt (2)	San Francisco Giants	C. C. Sabathia	Cleveland Indians
	June	Chris Young	San Diego Padres	Johan Santana (5)	Minnesota Twins
	July	Carlos Zambrano (2)	Chicago Cubs	John Lackey	Los Angeles Angels
	August	Derek Lowe (2)	Los Angeles Dodgers	Esteban Loaiza (2)	Oakland Athletics
	September	Roy Oswalt (2)	Houston Astros	Johan Santana (6)	Minnesota Twins
2007	April	John Maine	New York Mets	Roy Halladay (3)	Toronto Blue Jays
	May	Jake Peavy (2)	San Diego Padres	Dan Haren	Oakland Athletics
	June	Ben Sheets	Milwaukee Brewers	J. J. Putz	Seattle Mariners
	July	Carlos Zambrano (3)	Chicago Cubs	Érik Bédard	Baltimore Orioles
	August	Jake Peavy (3)	San Diego Padres	Andy Pettitte (5)	New York Yankees
	September	Jake Peavy (4)	San Diego Padres	Fausto Carmona	Cleveland Indians
2008	April	Brandon Webb	Arizona Diamondbacks	Cliff Lee	Cleveland Indians
	May	Todd Wellemeyer	St. Louis Cardinals	Scott Kazmir	Tampa Bay Rays
	June	Dan Haren (2)	Arizona Diamondbacks	John Lackey (2)	Los Angeles Angels
	July	CC Sabathia (2)	Milwaukee Brewers	Jon Lester	Boston Red Sox
	August	CC Sabathia (3)	Milwaukee Brewers	Cliff Lee (2)	Cleveland Indians
	September	Johan Santana (7)	New York Mets	Jon Lester (2)	Boston Red Sox
2009	April	Johan Santana (8)	New York Mets	Zack Greinke	Kansas City Royals
	May	Trevor Hoffman (2)	Milwaukee Brewers	Justin Verlander	Detroit Tigers
	June	Tim Lincecum	San Francisco Giants	Félix Hernández	Seattle Mariners
	July	Wandy Rodriguez	Houston Astros	Jarrod Washburn	Seattle Mariners
	August	Chris Carpenter	St. Louis Cardinals	CC Sabathia (4)	New York Yankees
	September	Jair Jurrjens	Atlanta Braves	Felix Hernandez (2)	Seattle Mariners
2010 to date
2010	April	Ubaldo Jiménez	Colorado Rockies	Francisco Liriano	Minnesota Twins
	May	Ubaldo Jiménez (2)	Colorado Rockies	Jon Lester (3)	Boston Red Sox
	June	Josh Johnson	Florida Marlins	Cliff Lee (3)	Seattle Mariners
	July	Roy Halladay (4)	Philadelphia Phillies	Gavin Floyd	Chicago White Sox
	August	Tim Hudson (2)	Atlanta Braves	Clay Buchholz	Boston Red Sox
	September	Derek Lowe (3)	Atlanta Braves	David Price	Tampa Bay Rays
2011	April	Josh Johnson (2)	Florida Marlins	Jered Weaver	Los Angeles Angels
	May	Jair Jurrjens (2)	Atlanta Braves	Jeremy Hellickson	Tampa Bay Rays
	June	Cliff Lee (4)	Philadelphia Phillies	Justin Verlander (2)	Detroit Tigers
	July	Clayton Kershaw	Los Angeles Dodgers	CC Sabathia (5)	New York Yankees
	August	Cliff Lee (5)	Philadelphia Phillies	Ricky Romero	Toronto Blue Jays
	September	Javier Vázquez (2)	Florida Marlins	Doug Fister	Detroit Tigers

See also

• MLB Player of the Month
• MLB Rookie of the Month
• Player of the Week
• Cy Young Award
• Rolaids Relief Man of the Year Award: given to the most effective relief pitcher.
• DHL Delivery Man of the Year Award
• Triple Crown (pitching)
• Players Choice Awards (Outstanding Pitcher)
• TSN Pitcher of the Year
• TSN Reliever of the Year
• Warren Spahn Award (best left-handed pitcher)
• Baseball awards
• List of MLB awards

References

• MLB.com - Winners since 2003
• History at Baseball Almanac