Teoscar Hernández's ghost scare brings back Dodgers' history of haunted hotel stays

Whenever the Dodgers go on the road to play the Brewers, the team puts everyone but Mookie Betts up in Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel. Betts has refused to stay at the hotel for years and opts for Airbnbs instead, citing rumored paranormal activity that predates his career. Multiple players have reported strange phenomena while staying there, going as far back as Adrián Beltré's complaint of repeated knocking at his door in 2001.

The latest Dodger to join in on the superstition (albeit via his wife) is Teoscar Hernández, who stayed in the hotel at the beginning of the Dodgers' NLCS road trip but said ahead of Game 2 that he would be finding different accommodations. Hernández said that while he doesn't believe in ghosts, his wife does, and she insisted that they find another place to stay.

"The lights, some of the rooms, the lights goes off and on," Hernandez said of some other players' and their wives' observations. "And the doors, there are noises, footsteps, things like that, I don't know."

Betts has said that he's never had a ghostly encounter himself, but justified his caution by saying, "I just don't want to find out myself."

Teoscar Hernández joins long list of MLB players (including Mookie Betts) to move out of Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel

In 2012, Bryce Harper said, "I laid a pair of jeans and a shirt on that table at the foot of the bed. When I woke up in the morning — I swear on everything — the clothes were on the floor and the table was on the opposite side of the room." In 2018, Carlos Martinez and Marcell Ozuna roomed together because both reported sightings of a spectral presence.

It's unclear where exactly the ghost or ghosts that may or may not haunt the Pfister came from, as the hotel hasn't reported any particularly gory incidents within its walls. In fact, baseball players seem to be the most haunted subsection of guests at this particular hotel. If there is a ghost, maybe they just have a particular grudge against major leaguers.

In any case, it seems to be a pretty benevolent ghost that just likes to mess with players a little. Staying at the Pfister certainly hasn't cursed the Dodgers' performance, if their 2-0 lead in the NLCS is any indication. Still, it's a fun ghost story — and just in time for Halloween.