Justin Upton has slipped from second to third place among National League outfielders in the All-Star voting, released Tuesday. The top three vote-getters will start the game July 16 at Citi Field in New York, and for Upton it would be his first ever start in his third All-Star appearance.
Voting continues until Thursday at 11:59 p.m. Teams will be announced Saturday night at 6:30 p.m. on FOX.
Upton led NL outfielders in voting when voting was first released in early June on the strength of his major league-leading 12 April home runs. He hit only .218 (41-for-188) with three home runs and 18 RBIs in May and June, with 59 strikeouts.
He’s gradually lost momentum in the vote as his production has tailed off. He fell to second behind Carlos Beltran in the previous tally, and after Rockies outfielder Carlos Gonzalez passed him in Tuesday’s tally, Upton is only 15,266 votes ahead of the Nationals’ Bryce Harper.
Beltran is leading all NL outfielders with 5,013,806 votes, Gonzalez is second with 2,928,606, Upton is third with 2,917,659 and Harper is fourth with 2,902,393.
Freddie Freeman is fifth among first basemen, Chris Johnson is fourth among third baseman, Andrelton Simmons is fifth among shortstops, and Brian McCann is fifth among catchers.
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