
Dittrick Wins Fan Vote for All-Star Game
July 14, 2012 - West Coast League (WCL)
Corvallis Knights News Release
CORVALL IS - Pitcher Rob Dittrick of the Corvallis Knights has been selected to play in the 2012 West Coast League All-Star Game in a vote of the fans.
Dittrick is a right-hander from Mililani, Haw. who will be a senior at Pacific University this fall. A 10-game signee who made the full-time roster, he is 3-1 in seven appearances, with a 1.54 ERA and 19 strikeouts in a team-high 35 innings.
Fans from each WCL franchise select one player from their respective team for the all-star game, scheduled for July 24 at Borleske Stadium in Walla Walla. Dittrick received 90,055 votes to outdistance runner-up AJ Burke of Western Oregon, who had 53,126.
Knights' fans cast more than 151,000 votes online, or in person at Goss Stadium or at Wilson Motors.
The complete East and West division teams will be announced on Tuesday. The MLB Scouting Bureau names 12 must-see prospects; the rest of the 21-man rosters are filled by a vote of the coaches.
The East won last year's game 4-2 in Corvallis before an all-star game-record crowd of 2,514 fans.
The Knights open a five-game series with West Division rival Bend at 5:15 p.m. Sunday at Goss Stadium. The teams play at Bend on Monday and Tuesday nights, then return to Corvallis for 6:40 p.m. games on Wednesday and Thursday.
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