Dodgers will again visit White House to celebrate World Series championship, official says

The Los Angeles Dodgers are acceptable for what is present becoming an yearly travel to the White House.

After becoming the archetypal squad to triumph back-to-back Fall Classics since the New York Yankees won 3 consecutive from 1998 to 2000, the Dodgers volition erstwhile again wage a sojourn to President Donald Trump successful the nation's capital.

The White House confirmed to Fox News Digital that the squad volition sojourn connected July 23, an disconnected time betwixt bid successful Philadelphia and New York.

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President Donald Trump, center, holds a shot jersey alongside Clayton Kershaw, pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, left, and Mark Walter, proprietor of the Los Angeles Dodgers, right, successful the East Room of the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Monday, April 7, 2025. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

"President Trump is excited to invited the Los Angeles Dodgers BACK to the White House to observe their World Series championship!" White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said successful a connection to Fox News Digital.

The California Post was the archetypal to study the news.

The Dodgers were crowned champs again aft completing a Game 7 comeback against the Toronto Blue Jays successful 11 innings successful 1 of the wildest games of each time.

The sojourn volition not travel easy to immoderate — soon aft winning the Fall Classic, an migration rights radical pleaded with the squad not to sojourn again.

"The Los Angeles Dodgers person ever been much than a shot squad — they’re portion of the tone of who we are arsenic a city. The squad represents our neighborhoods, our families, and our shared emotion for our divers communities. But close now, our community, our metropolis are nether siege, we request them to basal with us, connected the close broadside of history," the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) wrote successful an online petition.

"Ask the squad to grant the unity, integrity and diverseness they themselves represent. They cannot enactment soundless arsenic our families and neighbors look violence, detention, and deportation. By visiting a president who has utilized his powerfulness to harm the astir vulnerable, the squad would beryllium turning its backmost connected the precise radical who capable the stadiums, deterioration the jerseys, and springiness this squad its heart. By encouraging the squad to bash the close thing, we volition amusement the White House that Los Angeles stands for compassion, dignity, and solidarity with their migrant neighbors."

Hard-throwing reliever Brusdar Graterol, on with immoderate others, missed retired connected the solemnisation past year, which celebrated the 2024 title. Graterol opted to enactment astatine "my brownish house." Freddie Freeman did not be portion helium had been connected the injured database astatine the time, but respective injured players similar Clayton Kershaw, Gavin Stone, Michael Kopech and Michael Grove were there.

Meanwhile, outfielder Mookie Betts decided to spell past twelvemonth aft opting retired of the travel with the Boston Red Sox successful 2019.

Los Angeles Dodgers prima Shohei Ohtani speaks with President Donald Trump during a ceremonial celebrating the Major League Baseball 2024 World Series Champion team, successful the East Room astatine the White House connected Monday, April 7, 2025, successful Washington, D.C. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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"This is not astir me; I don’t privation thing to beryllium astir me. This is astir the Dodgers. Because these boys were determination for me," Betts said, via the Los Angeles Times.

Betts said helium regretted not making the travel successful 2019, which manager Alex Cora and pitcher David Price besides skipped, saying helium felt helium was a distraction. Cora precocious admitted helium skipped retired connected gathering Trump due to the fact that helium wanted to prioritize his location of Puerto Rico. When the Red Sox visited the White House successful May 2019, Puerto Rico was inactive recovering from the demolition of Hurricane Maria successful 2017, and Cora wasn't satisfied with the national government's response.

The Dodgers visited erstwhile President Joe Biden successful July 2021 to observe their 2020 World Series title.

Several large sports champions, including each NBA rubric winner, person declined to sojourn the White House during some of Trump's terms. The Dodgers, Philadelphia Eagles, Florida Panthers, Ohio State shot team, Indiana shot team, LSU shot squad and Inter Miami person each visited the White House to observe their championships since Trump’s 2nd word began successful January 2025.

It remains to beryllium seen whether the Seattle Seahawks and Carolina Hurricanes volition travel suit, but Knicks proprietor James Dolan said his squad would visit. That would marque them the archetypal NBA squad to sojourn Trump.

The Commissioner's Trophy is disposable arsenic Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts (L) greets U.S. President Donald Trump arsenic helium hosts the 2024 World Series champions successful the East Room of the White House connected April 7, 2025, successful Washington, D.C. The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees with a 7-6 triumph successful Game 5. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Last year, the Florida Gators were the archetypal assemblage hoops squad to sojourn Trump since the Baylor women's squad successful 2019.

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