Article: Twins vs. Reds, 06/24/2012, 12:10pm

[sbknudson]

Wow! That may be the most foolish Votto has looked at the plate all year!

[glunn]

Diamond strikes out Votto with 3 pitches -- Reds' announcers are very impressed with Diamond.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Diamond has certainly handled Votto today.

[sbknudson]

This is another reason I like pitcher's duels - faster game pace. Six full innings in 81 minutes.

[Badsmerf]

Is it me, or are close plays at the plate awesome? I used to love how aggressive the Twins used to be running the bases to make teams make a perfect throw like Dozier just made. Of course, that was in the dome when they had a ton of speed on the team.

[glunn]

Terrible baserunning by the Reds gets Diamond out of the inning. Diamond has thrown only 60 pitches through 6 innings.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Sigh. This team can't even get lucky with a bouncing ball.

[sbknudson]

Is it me, or are close plays at the plate awesome? I used to love how aggressive the Twins used to be running the bases to make teams make a perfect throw like Dozier just made. Of course, that was in the dome when they had a ton of speed on the team.

I love it too.

Did anybody else cringe, just a bit, when Mauer had to make a play at the plate? Nice clean play, though, both ways.

[glunn]

Nice play by Reds second baseman to get Willingham at the plate. Not a great slide by Willingham, who seemed surprised.

[SpiritofVodkaDave]

Wow, nice play by Phillips.

[Badsmerf]

Nice play by Reds second baseman to get Willingham at the plate. Not a great slide by Willingham, who seemed surprised.

I agree, he could have scored with a little better slide. Span is excellent at hitting the corners on slides.

[SpiritofVodkaDave]

2nd and 3rd, nobody out with Morneau and Plouffe due up, very disappointing to only come away with 1 run.

[notoriousgod71]

I love it too.

Did anybody else cringe, just a bit, when Mauer had to make a play at the plate? Nice clean play, though, both ways.

Personally I would love to see if he could handle getting run over. I don't want him to get Posey'd but if it was a Lonnie Smith/Brian Harper collision I'd be all for it.

[USAFChief]

Mauer looked pretty clumsy on that play at the plate, again. Sticks his left leg out instead of blocking the plate. He had like 5 seconds to set up there too.

Tough luck for the Twins on the Plouffe AB. Hit it hard but perfect bounce and nice play by Phillips.

[glunn]

Diamond is throwing strikes and trusting his stuff. A complete game seems possible here.

[USAFChief]

Nobody covers second. Uffda.

[sbknudson]

Ugh! With Dozier it seems to be 1.25 steps forward, 1 step back.

[SpiritofVodkaDave]

Good lord.

[Badsmerf]

Young player. Like I said with Plouffe when he was making mistakes at SS, the game is much faster and a single mental lapse is magnified.

[glunn]

Ugh! With Dozier it seems to be 1.25 steps forward, 1 step back.

But Diamond makes it moot by getting the final out. If Diamond keeps pitching like this, the one run lead may hold up.