MILWAUKEE– There’s postseason stress, and after that there’s the kind that originates from points that go bump in the evening. For the Los Angeles Dodgers, it appears both have actually followed them to Milwaukee.
As the National Organization Champion Collection began at American Household Area for Gamings 1 and 2 on Monday and Tuesday evening, a various sort of story is swirling around the going to club– one entailing ghost tales, sleep deprived evenings, and a century-old resort that’s been upsetting Big league Baseball gamers for years.
The Pfister Resort, a sophisticated spots in midtown Milwaukee constructed in 1893, has actually long been reported to be haunted. From flickering lights to phantom steps, gamers have actually murmured regarding spooky experiences for several years.
Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts has actually listened to sufficient. Once more, the eight-time All-Star rejected to remain there, deciding rather for the security of an Airbnb– as he’s done on every Milwaukee journey considering that 2022.
” I do not rely on ghosts,” Betts claimed last period. “Yet I do not intend to figure out that I’m incorrect.”
That superstitious notion– or self-preservation– has actually currently spread out via the Dodgers club. Ahead of Video Game 2 on Tuesday, Teoscar Hernández confessed that he and his household made a decision not to remain at the Pfister either after colleagues shared their very own supernatural experiences considering that showing up Sunday evening.
” I have actually remained there prior to and never ever seen anything,” Hernández informed press reporters throughout his pregame media session. “Yet my spouse claimed she really did not intend to remain there. After that I began listening to tales– lights going off, doors opening up, steps. I resembled, all right, that suffices.”
PTeoscar Hernandez # 37 of the Los Angeles Dodgers commemorates his three-run crowning achievement with colleague Mookie Betts # 50 in the 7th inning versus the Philly Phillies in video game among the Department Collection at People Financial Institution Park on October 04, 2025 in Philly, Pennsylvania. (Image by Emilee Chinn/Getty Images)
For the Dodgers, this isn’t simply one more trip. It’s an examination of nerves– not simply versus Freddy Peralta and the Makers’ elite pitching team, yet versus the sort of mythology that permeates right into a group’s mind. Gamers from Bryce Harper to Adrian Beltre to Pablo Sandoval have actually all asserted odd experiences at the Pfister, and the tales never ever appear to pass away.
” I laid a set of pants and a t-shirt on that particular table at the foot of the bed,” Harper remembered while remaining at the haunted resort in 2012. “When I got up in the early morning– I vouch on whatever– the garments got on the flooring and the table got on the contrary side of the space.”
While having fun for the Dodgers in 2001, Beltre claimed he listened to knocking at his door while remaining at the Pfister, despite the television and a/c unit shut off.
” I mosted likely to shower, and I keep in mind placing my iPod beside an audio speaker,” previous Giants’ infielder Pablo Sandoval remembered regarding his experience at the resort. “When I appeared, it was playing songs, and I have no concept why.” Sandoval and colleague Edgar Renteria rejected to stick with the remainder of the group at the Pfister in 2010.
Sandoval, Harper, and Beltre were not the only MLB gamers to experience paranormal tasks either. Several of one of the most spooky tales originate from previous baseball gamers that remained there for many years.
” It was much more like a relocating light that sort of gone through the space,” claimed previous Cardinals infielder Brendan Ryan to a regional television terminal. “The space obtained a little chillier.”
” A number of years earlier, I was hing on bed after an evening video game, and I was out. My space was secured, yet I listened to these steps inside my space, stomping about. It woke me up,” claimed previous Ranger Michael Youthful.
” I got on the computer system one evening, doing my normal shtick– surfing the internet, sending out an e-mail, modifying an image– and after that suddenly the lights began flickering,” claimed previous Angels’ bottle C.J. Wilson. “I’m believing to myself, I’m mosting likely to be so pissed if my computer system passes away. After that the light simply shuts down. And after that the television shuts down. And after that the light turns back on, yet the light at the front door shuts off. I simply shouted out, ‘Actually?'” So afterwards, I returned to whatever I was doing on the computer system, yet after that thirty minutes later on there’s scraping in the wall surfaces. Currently I’m believing, OK, it’s the Midwest, there could be a possum or something in the wall surface, right? That’s feasible, isn’t it? All I understood was that there were certainly sounds originating from the wall surface.”
And lastly, previous Oriental slugger Ji-man Choi was an initial baseman likewise with the Angels when he claimed he was stocking bed and really felt the “existence of a spirt hing on bed” beside him.
Yeah, no many thanks.
But whether you rely on ghosts or otherwise, the tales have actually entered into baseball’s odd October magic– a mix of stress, practice, and superstitious notion that specifies the sporting activity. And for Betts, Hernández, and the Dodgers, one point’s without a doubt: they prefer to encounter a 100-mph heater from novice Jacob Misiorowski than an agitated spirit at 3 a.m.
Game 2 of the NLCS in between the Dodgers and Makers proceeds Tuesday evening in Milwaukee– and regardless of what occurs on the area, the ghosts of the Pfister will certainly be enjoying carefully.
