Carlos Ruiz moves up a spot in All-Star voting
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Carlos Ruiz moves up a spot in All-Star voting
Matt Gelb, Inquirer Staff Writer
MINNEAPOLIS — Carlos Ruiz has passed Brian McCann in All-Star voting for National League catchers, but the Phillies backstop still ranks third with some 500,000 votes to overcome.
San Francisco's Buster Posey is the new leader with 1,713,839 votes. He tops St. Louis' Yadier Molina, who has 1,576,199 votes. Ruiz is third with 1,191,194 votes.
In-stadium balloting concludes June 22 and online voting continues until June 28. The rosters are announced July 1.
Ruiz's scorching start has slowed recently; he does not have an extra-base hit in his last eight games and is hitting 4 for 26 (.154) during that stretch. He still leads all NL catchers in batting average (.347) and slugging percentage (.555) and ranks second in on-base percentage (.434).
Even if Ruiz is not voted to start by the fans, it's likely he makes his first All-Star appearance as a reserve.
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Vote for Chooch !!!! Even though he hast stopped using all fields and is trying to hit everything over the left field fence .... causing his current mini-slump.
Go Phils!— zubzub
Everytime the Tonner cranks down a Genny Cream Ale he goes online and votes for Chooch. That is until the Tonner can no longer see straight. Then the Tonner heads out to the bar to pick up chicks.— hunglikeaton- Robyn! You give us a girls who know a little baseball a bad rep when you typed that Ruiz isn't an deserve an all-star appearance. Stick with Ping pong!:)— pattymac3
- Only Ruiz is deserving of All Star. Rest of Phillies are washed up and need to go.— cu2ny
- How Do I Vote For Phillies All Stars on the Phils web page?— Henry Jacobine
