Despite our most aggressive 140-character efforts, Bryce Harper will not be going to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game as the final member of the National League team. The four-hour burst of tweets tagged #BryceIn12 was voluminous, but not enough to get the Nationals’ 19-year-old outfielder ahead of David Freese, the St. Louis Cardinals third baseman who won the vote.

And it wasn’t for lack of effort. DCist pushed out several tweets featuring the special hashtag, which Major League Baseball counted as a vote in the race for the 34th and final spot on the All-Star roster. So did our many readers.

Heck, even some local dignitaries got in the fray:

Ok @greenlife52 !! I’m back home in Moscow!! lets go caps fans and do it for DC!!! #BryceIn12

— Alex Ovechkin (@ovi8) July 5, 2012

C’mon, @Patrick_Madden and @alanblinder, don’t you want to tweet for #BryceIn12 & send our boy to the #MLB All-Star Game?

— Vincent C. Gray (@mayorvincegray) July 5, 2012

#BryceIn12Enough Said

— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) July 5, 2012

But it wasn’t enough to put Harper over the top. Even though this is the result that Nationals Manager Davey Johnson wanted—preferring the rookie get some much-needed rest instead of being rerouted to Kansas City, Mo.—come on. This is kind of bullshit. It’s not like the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was promoting Freese the way D.C. media got behind Harper.

Still, we might have been successful had everyone remembered to use the #BryceIn12 hashtag:

We’ve approximately 1 hr an 15 mins 2 cast votes for Bryce Harper. Let’s vote 2 get another outstanding NATS player on the All Star team.

— Vincent Orange (@VincentOrangeDC) July 5, 2012

Nice sentiment there from Councilmember Vincent Orange (D-At Large), but with no hashtag, there was no vote.