MILWAUKEE — The legend of the haunted Pfister Hotel just won’t die – like some of the hotel’s former guests.
The downtown Milwaukee hotel has been hosting visiting MLB and NBA teams for years with tales of paranormal activity growing at the allegedly haunted hotel. Some players – and even teams – have opted to stay elsewhere rather than share quarters with the apparitions.
The venerable hotel first opened in 1893 and its old-school decor adds to the spooky ambience – described by New York Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton as reminding him of the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland.
Count Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernandez among those choosing to ghost the ghosts by finding other phantom-free accommodations.
“For me, it’s whatever – I don’t believe in ghosts,” Hernandez said before Game 2 of the National League Championship Series against the Milwaukee Brewers. “I have stayed in there before. I’ve never seen anything or heard anything.
“But my wife is on this trip, and she said she doesn’t want to stay there. So we had to find another hotel.”
Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts has gone the Airbnb route for years, also saying he doesn’t believe in ghosts but he doesn’t want to find out in the middle of a night at the Pfister that he’s wrong. Betts isn’t staying at the team hotel on this trip either and when he was told Hernandez had opted for different arrangements said, “See? Y’all thought I was crazy.”
Hernandez said his wife has heard stories from other players’ wives that “something (has been) happening in these couple of nights.” The stories are the typical ones shared in the past, explainable by faulty wiring or aging infrastructure.
“The lights, some of the rooms, the lights go off and on,” Hernandez said. “And the doors – there are noises, footsteps, things like – I don’t know.
“I’m not the guy that I’m going to be here saying, ‘Oh, yeah, I experienced that before’ because I’m not. And I don’t think I’m going to experience that.”
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts has been coming to Milwaukee as a player, coach and manager for years and has no paranormal experiences to relate.
“I don’t,” he said. “Those stories went away when I was about 10 years old.
“I’m okay to go to bed now.”
PITCHING PLAN
Roberts confirmed the Dodgers’ starting rotation for the games in Los Angeles. Tyler Glasnow will start Game 3 on Thursday and Shohei Ohtani will take Game 4 on Friday night. Blake Snell is lined up to return for Game 5 if the series goes that far. Snell would be pitching on four days of rest for the first time this season.
This lines Glasnow up to pitch a potential Game 7 on four days of rest. Ohtani would be available “if we need a Game 7 out of the ’pen.”
DOUBLE PLAY
Hernandez was not available in the post-game locker room after Game 1 to explain what he saw during the fourth-inning double play when he was thrown out at home on a force out after Max Muncy nearly hit a grand slam and Brewers center fielder Sal Frelick deflected the ball off the wall and back into play.
Hernandez was on third base, tagged up when Muncy hit the fly ball then went back and tagged up again when Frelick caught the ball after it bounced off the wall. It was not necessary for him to tag up the second time and the delay resulted in him being thrown out at home.
Hernandez explained what he saw on the play before Game 2 on Tuesday.
“It was one of those plays that if you would have asked me two days ago ‘What would you do in this situation?’ I would say as soon as the ball touched the glove, I would go,” Hernandez said. “But in the moment, I got blocked, I think, and there’s not an explanation. I just (expletive) up. It’s that simple.
“I saw it when the ball hit the glove, I went. Then I saw it bounced off the glove. And I just reacted bad. Just one of those moments, you block your mind. But there’s nobody to blame but myself.”
Roberts said “we discussed it a little bit” after the fact. But the Dodgers were already familiar with the rule. It came into play during a May game against the New York Mets at Citi Field.
“Our coaches talked about it even recently,” he said. “Very unlikely that happens three times in one year to one team. I would be shocked if, No. 1, it happens again and if we make the same mistakes.
“I do think that we’re very versed in the rules. We really take pride in that. But that was just one of those crazy situations.”
UP NEXT
Game 3: Brewers (TBA) at Dodgers (RHP Tyler Glasnow, 4-3, 3.19 ERA), Thursday, 3:08 p.m. PT, TBS, HBO Max, 570 AM
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