Dee Gordon is fast but Kolten Wong continues to catch up to him.
Wong, a 2008 Kamehameha-Hawaii graduate, is still second in fan voting among National League second baseman for the All-Star Game, but he’s narrowed the gap considerably, whittling Gordon’s lead to 113,058 votes.
In the voting tally released a week ago, Wong trailed the fleet-footed Miami Marlin by more than 345,000 votes, and it’s shaping up as a two-man race to start at second in the July 14 Midsummer Classic at Cincinnati’s Great American Ball Park. While Gordon and Wong each garnered more than two million votes, San Francisco’s Joe Panik was far behind in third, having collected 1,159,514.