{"id":949,"date":"2013-07-02T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rockies-gonzalez-in-tight-race-for-nl-of-spot\/"},"modified":"2013-07-02T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T13:00:00","slug":"rockies-gonzalez-in-tight-race-for-nl-of-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rockies-gonzalez-in-tight-race-for-nl-of-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies&#8217; Gonzalez in tight race for NL OF spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; With less than a week remaining in the All- Star balloting, the race for the National League starting outfield spots remains a tight one.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado&#8217;s Carlos Gonzalez has vaulted to second place, moving ahead of Atlanta&#8217;s Justin Upton and Washington&#8217;s Bryce Harper with 2,928,606 votes. Upton has received 2,917,659 votes and is clinging to the third spot as Harper (2,902,393) remains close behind.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis&#8217; Carlos Beltran has a comfortable lead among outfielders with 5,013,806 votes. Beltran trails only teammate and catcher Yadier Molina (5,093,645) for the overall lead.<\/p>\n<p>Mets third baseman David Wright (4,452,282) has expanded his lead over San Francisco&#8217;s Pablo Sandoval (3,610,096) and appears to be in position to get the starting nod in front the New York faithful.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado shortstop Troy Tulowitzki has a sizeable advantage after collecting 4,072,834 votes, while Cincinnati teammates Joey Votto (3,622,608) and Brandon Phillips (3,411,839) still lead the races at first base and second base.<\/p>\n<p>Voting will conclude Thursday at 11:59 p.m. ET, with the teams for the July 16 All-Star Game at Citi Field in New York to be unveiled Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; With less than a week remaining in the All- Star balloting, the race for the National League starting outfield spots remains a tight one. Colorado&#8217;s Carlos Gonzalez has vaulted to second place, moving ahead of Atlanta&#8217;s Justin Upton and Washington&#8217;s Bryce Harper with 2,928,606 votes. Upton has received 2,917,659 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}