Dodger Stadium was at capacity on Friday night, as the Los Angeles home team faced off against rivals San Diego Padres in a do-or-die game 5 at home.
The moment the Dodgers clinched the division title — off solo homers by Kiké and Teosar Hernández and a merciless bullpen that shut down the Padres down — Chavez Ravine erupted in deafening cheers.
It was not unlike the scene at the Al’s Cocktails, where Dodger faithfuls gathered on a Friday evening to watch their boys in the city of San Gabriel.
Wendy Hopkins is both a lifelong San Gabriel resident and a Dodgers fan. She said she started going to games in the ’70s, because her father who worked for the county got cheap $7 tickets.
Ever since, she has never wavered.
“I didn’t have any doubts because they always pull it out in the end,” she said about Game 5. “I wasn’t worried about this.”
Hopkins went to a World Series game in 2020, when the Dodgers went all the way.
“It was amazing,” she said.