Why Isn’t Mookie Betts Staying in the Dodgers’ Team Hotel in Milwaukee?
Mookie Betts isn’t taking any chances with things that might go bump in the night in Milwaukee this week. Instead, Betts told reporters Monday he’s staying at a local Airbnb because the Dodgers’ team hotel is rumored to be haunted.
For the second consecutive year, Betts has opted not to stay with the team at the Pfister Hotel. The Pfister Hotel was built in 1893 and has long been rumored to be haunted by ghosts. Players for other franchises claim to have experienced ghost encounters.
Betts wants no part of it.
The former Most Valuable Player has spent time at the Pfister Hotel in the past and noted that he did not have any interactions with anything paranormal. However, every little noise made him nervous. He constantly felt spooked.
“You can tell me what happened after,” he said last year. “I just don’t want to find out myself.”
His views on the paranormal are still the same.
“No. That ain’t going to change,” he said when asked about it this year.
After missing the last eight weeks due to a fractured hand and a good night’s sleep away from the paranormal, Betts was spectacular in his first game back from the injured list on Monday night.
Betts finished 2-for-4 with a home run, a run scored and three runs batted in.
In his first at-bat, Betts made a fool of himself by striking out on a Freddy Peralta slider that sent him flying across the plate and falling after whiffing. Betts began the game wearing molded cleats, but he immediately switched after the strikeout.
“The dirt was just too hard,” Betts said. “I made a fool of myself, but it was strictly because I couldn’t grip.”
Betts got his revenge in the third inning when he crushed a two-run homer over the left-field wall. He added a run-scoring single and stolen base in the seventh inning to cap off his night.
“Freddy Peralta is a heck of a pitcher,” manager Dave Roberts said. “To have the night he did against Freddy was huge.”
Betts didn’t need a rehab assignment and he looked like he didn’t miss a beat.
“Being able to pencil his name in the lineup, we certainly got a lot better,” Roberts said of Betts before Monday’s game. “We’re kind of getting to the point where we’re putting guys in their respective spots in the order, which adds length and makes us a better ballclub.”
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