Pat Murphy talks about the impossible double play in Game 1 of the NLCS
Brewers manager Pat Murphy talks about the 8-6-2 double play started by Sal Frelick in the fourth inning.
MILWAUKEE — Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts is convinced the famous Pfister Hotel is haunted and has refused to stay at the team hotel in downtown Milwaukee for years.
So when the Dodgers come to town, he always checks into an Airbnb away from the team, unprepared to encounter ghosts.
Well, if there is space, Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernandez would also like to join.
Hernandez claimed before Game 2 of the National League Championship Series that he doesn’t believe in ghosts, but that his wife does, so the couple is arranging separate accommodations.
“I don’t believe in ghosts,” Hernandez said. “I’ve stayed here before, but I’ve never seen or heard anything.
“But my wife is traveling this time and doesn’t want to stay there. So we have to find another hotel.”
“But I’ve heard from other players and other wives that something has been going on over the last few nights.”
So what exactly are they listening to?
“The lights go off and on in some rooms,” Hernandez said. “And I hear doors, noises, footsteps, things like that. I don’t know.
“I’m not the kind of person to come in here and say, ‘Oh, yeah, I’ve been through that before,’ because I really haven’t. And I don’t think I’m ever going to go through something like that.”
Well, he can’t convince Betts that something is wrong and refuses to take the chance, saying, “I just don’t want to find out for myself.”
Players have discussed strange occurrences at the 132-year-old hotel in the past, with Phillies first baseman Bryce Harper saying his clothes were once moved across the room, and players talking about ghostly footsteps and TVs and radios mysteriously playing in their rooms.
Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton once said: “It’s creepy, with mugshots on the walls and old curtains everywhere. It reminds me of the haunted house at Disneyland. The less time you’re there, the better.”
According to one former MLB executive, the truth is often just a joke by teammates.
The doors to the rooms on the older side of the hotel don’t go all the way to the floor, leaving about a quarter-inch gap from the bottom.
“So the players take the TV remote and go into other players’ or staff’s rooms in the middle of the night and click on the TV under the door,” he said. “I’ve seen it done a lot over the years. That’s where all the ghostly stuff started back in the day.”
Does that mean there are no ghosts in the hotel?
“I’m not ghosted,” he said.
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