Teoscar Hernández avoids Milwaukees allegedly

Teoscar Hernández doesn’t imagine in ghosts.

But just the same, the Dodgers outfielder declined to keep with the staff at the historic — and allegedly haunted — Pfister Hotel in downtown Milwaukee during the first two video games of the National League Championship Series against the Brewers this week.

Hernández told reporters before Game 2 on Tuesday that his spouse, Jennifer, was the one who insisted on discovering someplace to keep other than the 137-year-old resort that has been the source of spooky tales from MLB gamers for many years.

“I don’t believe in ghosts. I have stayed there before. I never see anything or hear anything,” Hernández said. “But my wife is on this trip, and she says she doesn’t want to stay in there. So we have to find another hotel.”

Hernández added, however, that his spouse told him that she has heard from other gamers and their wives that there had been “something happening” over at the staff resort.

Asked to elaborate, Hernández said he had been told that in “some of the rooms, the lights, goes off and on, and the doors — there are noises, footsteps. … I’m not the guy that I’m gonna be here saying, ‘Oh yeah, I experienced that before,’ because I’m not, and I don’t think I’m gonna experience that.’”

Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts was requested during his pregame media availability Tuesday if he had any ghost tales to share from the staff’s keep at the Pfister.

“I don’t,” Roberts said. “Those stories went away when I was about 10 years old. So, no, not anymore. I’m OK to go to bed now.”

Over the years, not everybody has been as at ease about staying at the creepy previous digs. In 2005, then-Dodgers nearer Eric Gagne told The Times’ Steve Henson that the place freaked him out.

“It’s old, weird and scary,” Gagne said. “It’s very creepy. I don’t sleep well there.”

Henson also famous at the time that former Dodgers third baseman Adrián Beltré had “reported a ghostly presence turning on lights and tickling his toes” during a 2001 keep at the Pfister. Fellow Times employees author Kevin Baxter reported in 2007 that Beltre Beltronce insisted on sleeping with a bat for safety after he had a brush with a ghost” at the resort.

One-time Dodgers infielder Michael Young told ESPN that he once heard loud stomping noises in his room while he was attempting to sleep.

“So I yelled out, ‘Hey! Make yourself at home. Hang out, have a seat, but do not wake me up, OK?’” Young said. “After that, I didn’t hear a thing for the rest of the night.”

Current Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts determined a couple of years in the past he doesn’t need to take any possibilities at the spooky spot.

“I don’t know if they’re real or not, nor do I care,” Betts said of the resort’s alleged ghosts after a 2023 recreation against the Brewers in Milwaukee. “My boys are here, so we just got an Airbnb. That’s really it.”

Betts admitted to the Orange County Register that the Airbnb rental was “just in case” the scary tales had been true and “it was a good excuse” not to keep at the creepy previous building.

Last, during another collection in Milwaukee, Betts appeared to affirm that he’ll continue to discover various lodging for highway video games against the Brewers.

“You don’t want to mess with them,” Betts said of the Pfister’s alleged ghosts. “I’m staying at an Airbnb again. That part is not gonna change.”

The Dodgers more than survived their two video games in Milwaukee this week, using dominant performances by beginning pitchers Blake Snell and Yoshinobu Yamamoto to take a 2-0 National League Championship Series lead over the Brewers.

The Dodgers who checked in to the Pfister Hotel also seem to have survived another keep in downtown Milwaukee. And with the next three video games (if that many are mandatory) going down at Dodger Stadium, they’ve the possibility to make sure they keep away from returning to the (allegedly) haunted hang-out this postseason.