Despite the anxious messages hitting his phone Wednesday evening, San Gabriel Valley native David Gonzales didn’t fret.
The army veteran was about two hours into a 12-hour drive from his Rio Rancho, New Mexico, home to his cousin’s house in El Monte for a long-planned family reunion — a family of baseball fans.
Game 5 of the World Series was in the third inning at the time, and Gonzales’ Los Angeles Dodgers had fallen five runs behind the New York Yankees.
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“Friends and family were very nervous,” Gonzalez said about the rush of texts.