Phillips, Votto win Rawlings Gold Glove
AwardŽ
From reds.com
Cincinnati- Rawlings announced that Reds 2B Brandon Phillips and
1B Joey Votto are 2011 Gold Glove Award winners.
Phillips earns his third Rawlings Gold Glove AwardŽ and his second in
consecutive years. He also won it in 2008. Phillips is the first Reds
second baseman to win back-to-back Gold Gloves since Pokey Reese did it
in 1999 and 2000 and the first Reds second baseman to win it 3 or more
times since Joe Morgan won it 5 straight years from 1973-1977.
He joins Johnny Bench (10), David Concepcion (5), Joe Morgan (5), Cesar
Geronimo (4), Eric Davis (3), Barry Larkin (3) and Roy McMillan (3) as
Reds players to win 3 or more Gold Gloves.
Votto becomes the first Reds first baseman ever to win a Rawlings Gold
Glove and the first player in 16 years, other than Albert Pujols,
Adrian Gonzalez, Derrek Lee, Todd Helton, J.T. Snow or Mark Grace to
win the award at first base.
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