{"id":923503,"date":"2026-07-09T16:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/923503\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T16:11:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:11:19","slug":"dodgers-scheduled-to-visit-white-house-to-celebrate-world-series-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/923503\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers scheduled to visit White House to celebrate World Series title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Dodgers<\/a> are scheduled to visit the White House on July 23 to celebrate their latest World Series title<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump is excited to welcome the Los Angeles Dodgers BACK to the White House to celebrate their World Series championship!,\u201d White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said in a statement to The Times.<\/p>\n

The date falls on a scheduled off day in the middle of a nine-game East Coast road trip for the Dodgers. The team will play three games in Philadelphia against the Phillies July 20-22 before ending the trip with a three-game series against the New York Mets July 24 to 26.<\/p>\n

The visit continues a tradition from the Dodgers\u2019 two previous World Series championships. They were hosted by President Biden in 2021 and President Trump in April 2025. <\/p>\n

After the Dodgers claimed their second consecutive World Series title with a dramatic Game 7 victory<\/a> over the Toronto Blue Jays, a visit to the White House was planned<\/a>, but it wasn\u2019t until Thursday that a date was officially booked and confirmed.<\/p>\n

Questions swirled around whether players would decline the visit this year after it did not happen during a scheduled visit to Washington in April.<\/p>\n

Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez said in 2018 he was unsure he would have gone had the Dodgers won the World Series the previous year. Mookie Betts said he was undecided and needed to talk it over with his family when last year\u2019s visit was announced. After winning his first World Series with the Boston Red Sox in 2018, Betts skipped their trip to the White House the following year during Trump\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n

Both players, along with every returning member of the 2024 team who was with the team during its road trip, participated in the visit. The only notable absence was first baseman Freddie Freeman<\/a>, who remained in Los Angeles to nurse an ankle injury.<\/p>\n

Manager Dave Roberts, who indicated in comments to The Times in 2019 he might not go to the White House if Trump was president, also participated in last year\u2019s ceremony.<\/p>\n

Asked at the Dodgers\u2019 fan festival in January about the possibility of returning to the White House, Roberts told The Times\u2019 Bill Shaikin<\/a>: \u201cFor me, I stand by: I\u2019m a baseball manager. That\u2019s my job.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was raised \u2014 by a man who served our country for 30 years \u2014 to respect the highest office in our country,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cFor me, it doesn\u2019t matter who is in the office, I\u2019m going to go to the White House. I\u2019ve never tried to be political. … For me, I am going to continue to try to do what tradition says and not try to make political statements, because I am not a politician.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clayton Kershaw<\/a>, who retired after last season but was on Team USA for this year\u2019s World Baseball Classic<\/a>, told The Times in the spring that he was aware Dodgers fans are split over whether the team should visit the White House again this year, but he said he is looking forward to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went when President Biden was in office. I\u2019m going to go when President Trump is in office,\u201d Kershaw said<\/a>. \u201cTo me, it\u2019s just about getting to go to the White House. You don\u2019t get that opportunity every day, so I\u2019m excited to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Times deputy sports editor Ed Guzman contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Dodgers are scheduled to visit the White House on July 23 to celebrate their latest World Series…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":923504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2442,372723,2961,13940,224,2444,5337,2749,11792,1807,3007,637,9269,1804,5223,127494,171392,1628],"class_list":["post-923503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-dodgers","tag-high-office","tag-la","tag-last-year","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-mookie-betts","tag-president-biden","tag-president-trump","tag-team","tag-times","tag-trip","tag-visit","tag-white-house","tag-world-series-title","tag-world-series-win","tag-year"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}