Teoscar Hernández doesn’t imagine in ghosts.
However simply the identical, the Dodgers outfielder declined to stick with the staff on the historic — and allegedly haunted — Pfister Lodge in downtown Milwaukee through the first two video games of the Nationwide League Championship Sequence towards the Brewers this week.
Hernández instructed reporters earlier than Sport 2 on Tuesday that his spouse, Jennifer, was the one who insisted on discovering someplace to remain apart from the 137-year-old lodge that has been the supply of spooky tales from MLB gamers for many years.
“I don’t imagine in ghosts. I’ve stayed there earlier than. I by no means see something or hear something,” Hernández mentioned. “However my spouse is on this journey, and she or he says she doesn’t wish to keep in there. So we have now to seek out one other lodge.”
Hernández added, nonetheless, that his spouse instructed him that she has heard from different gamers and their wives that there had been “one thing taking place” over on the staff lodge.
Requested to elaborate, Hernández mentioned he had been instructed that in “a number of the rooms, the lights, goes on and off, and the doorways — there are noises, footsteps. … I’m not the man that I’m gonna be right here saying, ‘Oh yeah, I skilled that earlier than,’ as a result of I’m not, and I don’t assume I’m gonna expertise that.’”
Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts was requested throughout his pregame media availability Tuesday if he had any ghost tales to share from the staff’s keep on the Pfister.
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“I don’t,” Roberts mentioned. “These tales went away after I was about 10 years previous. So, no, not anymore. I’m OK to go to mattress now.”
Over time, not everybody has been as comfy about staying on the creepy previous digs. In 2005, then-Dodgers nearer Eric Gagne instructed The Instances’ Steve Henson that the place freaked him out.
“It’s previous, bizarre and scary,” Gagne mentioned. “It’s very creepy. I don’t sleep properly there.”
Henson additionally famous on the time that former Dodgers third baseman Adrián Beltré had “reported a ghostly presence turning on lights and tickling his toes” throughout a 2001 keep on the Pfister. Fellow Instances workers author Kevin Baxter reported in 2007 that Beltre Beltronce insisted on sleeping with a bat for cover after he had a brush with a ghost” on the lodge.
One-time Dodgers infielder Michael Younger instructed ESPN that he as soon as heard loud stomping noises in his room whereas he was making an attempt to sleep.
“So I yelled out, ‘Hey! Make your self at dwelling. Hang around, have a seat, however don’t wake me up, OK?’” Younger mentioned. “After that, I didn’t hear a factor for the remainder of the night time.”
Present Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts determined a few years in the past he doesn’t wish to take any possibilities on the spooky spot.
“I don’t know in the event that they’re actual or not, nor do I care,” Betts mentioned of the lodge’s alleged ghosts after a 2023 sport towards the Brewers in Milwaukee. “My boys are right here, so we simply bought an Airbnb. That’s actually it.”
Betts admitted to the Orange County Register that the Airbnb rental was “simply in case” the scary tales have been true and “it was a great excuse” to not keep on the creepy previous constructing.
Final, throughout one other collection in Milwaukee, Betts appeared to substantiate that he’ll proceed to seek out various lodging for street video games towards the Brewers.
“You don’t wish to mess with them,” Betts mentioned of the Pfister’s alleged ghosts. “I’m staying at an Airbnb once more. That half is just not gonna change.”
The Dodgers greater than survived their two video games in Milwaukee this week, using dominant performances by beginning pitchers Blake Snell and Yoshinobu Yamamoto to take a 2-0 Nationwide League Championship Sequence lead over the Brewers.
The Dodgers who checked in to the Pfister Lodge additionally seem to have survived one other keep in downtown Milwaukee. And with the following three video games (if that many are essential) happening at Dodger Stadium, they’ve the possibility to ensure they keep away from returning to the (allegedly) haunted hang-out this postseason.
