It was late afternoon on the Fourth of July when Angels manager Kurt Suzuki gathered his team and staff in the home clubhouse for a pregame meeting. If you looked closely, you could find a clue as to what was afoot. Angels senior director of communications Adam Chodzko held up a phone facing toward the room. That’s when center fielder Mike Trout, with his wife and two sons following the video stream on Chodzko’s phone, heard Suzuki announce that he was voted as an All-Star Game starter.
“They were on FaceTime,” Trout says of his wife, Jessica, and sons Beckham, 5, and Jordy, 2. “They found out the same time I did. So that was pretty cool.”
