Teoscar Hernandez doesn't believe in ghosts.
But still, Dodgers The outfielder refused to stay with the team at the historic—and supposedly haunted— Pfister Hotel in downtown Milwaukee during the first two games National League Championship Series against the Brewers this week.
Hernandez told reporters before Tuesday's second game that it was his wife Jennifer who insisted on finding a place to stay other than the 137-year-old hotel that has been the source of horror stories from MLB players for decades.
“I don't believe in ghosts. I've stayed there before. I never see anything or hear anything,” Hernandez said. “But my wife is traveling now and she says she doesn't want to stay there. So we need to find another hotel.”
However, Hernandez added that his wife told him that she had heard from other players and their wives that “something was going on” at the team hotel.
Asked for more details, Hernandez said he was told that “there are lights going on and off in some rooms, and there are noises in the doors, footsteps… I'm not the guy here that's going to have to say, 'Oh yeah, I've experienced this before,' because it hasn't and I don't think I'll experience it.”
Dodgers coach Dave Roberts During his pregame media availability Tuesday, he was asked if he had any ghost stories to share during the team's time at Pfister.
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“I don't know,” Roberts said. “Those stories disappeared when I was about 10 years old. So no, not anymore. Now I can go to bed.”
Over the years, staying at the creepy old digs hasn't been so easy for everyone. In 2005, the then-Dodgers came close Eric Gagne told The Times' Steve Henson that this place scared him.
“It’s old, weird and scary,” Gagne said. “It's very creepy. I don't sleep well there.”
Henson also noted at the time that the former Dodgers third baseman Adrian Beltre “reported a ghostly presence turning on the lights and tickling his toes” while staying at the Pfister Hotel in 2001. Times Magazine Staff Kevin Baxter reported in 2007 that Beltre Beltrons insisted on sleeping with a bat for protection after encountering a ghost at a hotel.
Former Dodgers infielder Michael Young said so. ESPN that one day he heard loud footsteps in his room when he was trying to sleep.
“So I shouted, 'Hey! Make yourself at home. Hang out, sit down, but don't wake me up, okay?” Young said. “After that, I didn't hear anything for the rest of the night.”
Current Dodgers player Mookie Betts a couple of years ago I decided that I didn’t want to risk this terrible place.
“I don't know if they're real or not and I don't care” Betts said about the hotel's supposed ghosts after the 2023 game against the Brewers in Milwaukee. “My boys are here, so we just got an Airbnb. That's all.”
Betts admitted to Orange County Register that renting through Airbnb was “just in case,” the horror stories were true, and “it was a good excuse” not to stay in a creepy old building.
Finally, during another series in Milwaukee, Betts appeared to confirm that he would continue to seek alternative accommodations for road games against the Brewers.
“You don’t want to mess with them.” Betts said about the supposed ghosts of Pfister. “I'll stay at Airbnb again. That part won't change.”
The Dodgers more than survived their two games in Milwaukee this week. dominant performances starting jugs Blake Snell And Yoshinobu Yamamoto defeat the Brewers 2–0 in the National League Championship Series.
The Dodgers, who checked into the Pfister Hotel, appeared to be having another stint in downtown Milwaukee. And with the next three games (if any) to be played at Dodger Stadium, they have a chance to make sure they don't return to the (supposedly) haunted venue this postseason.
