Major league star also named to All-Star team and expected to be finalist for Cy Young best pitcher award

Left-handed Jewish pitcher beat out finalists Zach Davies of the Chicago Cubs and Zack Wheeler of the Philadelphia Phillies

Southpaw holds Houston Astros to four hits over six innings to clinch Game Six, which contained what may have been the most Jewish play in any Major League Baseball matchup ever

Slugger Alex Bregman of Houston Astros, pitcher Max Fried and outfielder Joc Pederson, both of the Atlanta Braves, constitute largest Jewish representation in decades