Teoscar Hernández doesn’t believe in ghosts. So he says.
But his wife apparently does. And because of that, he’s not staying with his Los Angeles Dodgers teammates at Milwaukee’s allegedly and legendarily haunted Pfister Hotel for their NLCS road games against the Brewers. Hernández addressed his alternative accommodations with reporters during a news conference Tuesday.
“It’s whatever,” Hernández said. “I don’t believe in ghosts. I have stayed in there before. I never see anything or hear anything. But my wife is on this trip. And she says she doesn’t want to stay in there. So we have to find another hotel.
“But I’ve been hearing from other players and other wives that it’s something happening these couple nights.”
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This prompted a follow-up question: What exactly has he heard about the famous Pfister?
“My wife told me. The lights — some of the rooms — the lights go off and on,” Hernández continued. “The doors, there are noises, footsteps. Things like, I dunno. I’m not the guy that I’m gonna be here saying, yeah, I’ve experienced that before. And I don’t think I’m gonna experience that.”
Hernández is a skeptic. But apparently his wife’s a believer.
What do other Dodgers think?
Hernández won’t be the first Dodgers player to skip out on a stay at the Pfister. Mookie Betts declined a room at the hotel for a regular-season series in 2023 and has on road trips to Milwaukee ever since. He’s instead opted to rent an Airbnb “just in case” the Pfister is actually haunted.
Betts stayed at the Pfister previously and claims he has trouble sleeping there.
“I couldn’t sleep. Every noise, I’d be like, ‘Is that something?'” Betts told the Orange County Register in 2023.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, however, is not convinced.
“Those stories went away when I was about 10 years old,” he said Tuesday of the ghost stories, per USA Today.
Betts and Hernández, ahem — Hernández’s wife — aren’t the first MLB players or wives to be spooked by the Pfister, which opened in 1893 and has long had a reputation for being haunted.
The Pfister’s history of spooking MLB players
Per an ESPN feature on the hotel in 2013, Bryce Harper claimed that his clothes were moved from one side of his room to the other as he slept by himself with the the door latched. Giancarlo Stanton called the Pfister “creepy as s***” and compared it to Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion ride.
And former MLB player Michael Young declared “f*** that place” after he said he heard footsteps in his room while he was sleeping.
Baseball players tend to be a superstitious bunch on field. And some of them, it turns out, aren’t willing to take any unnecessary chances off of it.
But there’s good news for the believers in the Dodgers clubhouse. The series will shift to Los Angeles for Games 3-5 after Tuesday’s Game 2.
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