Dodgers scheduled to visit White House in late July to celebrate 2025 World Series win
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Set us as preferred WASHINGTON — The Dodgers are scheduled to visit the White House on July 23 to celebrate their latest World Series title.“President Trump is excited to welcome the Los Angeles Dodgers BACK to the White House to celebrate their World Series championship!,” White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said in a statement to The Times.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.The visit continues a tradition from the Dodgers’ two previous World Series championships.
They were hosted by President Biden in 2021 and President Trump in April 2025.After the Dodgers claimed their second consecutive World Series title with a dramatic Game 7 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays, a visit to the White House was planned, but it wasn’t until Thursday that a date was officially booked and confirmed.Questions swirled around whether players would decline the visit this year after it did not happen during a scheduled visit to Washington in April.Kiké Hernández 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’s 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’s first term.Bill Plaschke says players must stand up for fans and turn down a White House visit the Dodgers’ owners promised to make after winning the World Series.Both players, along with every returning member of the 2024 team who was with the team during its road trip, part...