Field of Screams: The Dodgers’ Haunted Hotel Stay

The Los Angeles Dodgers might be chasing another pennant, but earlier this week, they were also running from ghosts.

The team rolled into Milwaukee to take on the Brewers, only to discover they were booked at the Pfister Hotel, long known as Baseball’s Most Haunted Hotel. Over the years, players from nearly every Major League team have reported strange happenings there, lights flickering, whispers in the dark, even ghostly figures in old-fashioned clothes wandering the hallways.

Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernández didn’t even make it through the check-in. Not because he was scared, but because his wife, who made the trip with him, flat-out refused. “Nope,” she reportedly said, “find another place.” And so they did.

Meanwhile, Mookie Betts took one look at the place and decided he’d rather face Corbin Burnes’ fastball than a ghost at 3 a.m. “You can tell me what happened after,” he said. “I just don’t want to find out myself.”

Mookie’s actually stayed there before, once. “Every little noise, I was like, ‘Is that something?’” he recalled. “I didn’t sleep a wink.”

So while the Pfister’s phantoms might have struck out this round, the Dodgers didn’t; they currently lead the series 2-0 as the matchup heads back to L.A. for Game 3 tonight.

Still, after this spooky stop in Milwaukee, one thing’s for sure: the Dodgers’ biggest fear this postseason isn’t the Brewers’ bullpen, it’s room service from beyond the grave.