About 17 seconds after Carlos Correa had won a first title for a city ravaged by floods, the 23-year-old – exemplifying the short attention span that plagues the smartphone generation – searched around for his next project. So he dropped to his knees in front of millions of viewers and asked his girlfriend, Daniella Rodriguez, to marry him.
Luckily for his dignity, she said yes.
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The Houston Astros short stop had just helped his team beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 7 of a thrilling World Series. “Daniella Rodriguez, will you make me the happiest man in the world,” asked Correa, who was presumably already a little chipper. “Will you marry me?”
Rodriguez, the 2016 Miss Texas USA, looked understandably shocked and said “Oh my God” repeatedly before settling the nerves of Correa, his family and televisions viewers across the world before saying yes.
Correa said he had been thinking about the engagement for a few months. “One of the [clubhouse attendants], I talked to him in the ninth inning and I’m like, ‘I don’t want to jinx anything but if we get the three outs, please bring me the ring because I am going to get engaged in the ballpark,’” he said.
Correa was already having a good week: he had hit two home runs in the World Series as the Astros beat the Dodgers.