{"id":394612,"date":"2026-07-11T09:49:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T09:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/394612\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T09:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T09:49:22","slug":"kike-hernandez-on-why-hell-miss-dodgers-white-house-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/394612\/","title":{"rendered":"Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez on why he’ll miss Dodgers’ White House visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dodgers utility player Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a> confirmed Friday what he posted as a comment on Instagram: he won\u2019t be going to the White House on July 23, when President Trump will honor the team<\/a> for its 2025 World Series championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Instead, Hern\u00e1ndez (strained left oblique) is scheduled to be on a minor-league rehab assignment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be hard to be in two cities at the same time,\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez said. \u201cIf I was active, I probably wouldn\u2019t have gone anyways.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d rather take a day off than do team activities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Last year, Hern\u00e1ndez expressed his support for immigrants<\/a> in Los Angeles on social media amid ICE raids authorized by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

The White House visit will be on a day off in the middle of a nine-game East Coast trip.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure a lot of guys are going to participate and be there, and this is an individual choice,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cBut I do expect a lot of our guys to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scheduling conflicts when the Dodgers played the Nationals in Washington on April 3-5 pushed back the trip.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis took a long time to get both sides together, and, honestly, like I\u2019ve always said, my company line, my personal line is I hope that we get this invitation every year,\u201d Dodgers manager Roberts said. \u201cBecause that\u2019s the goal: to win a championship, to get this invitation to the White House. And I\u2019m not a politician, and I\u2019m doing something that teams have done for decades. And so that\u2019s where I stand, really. I\u2019m a baseball coach. That\u2019s what I do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back in 2019, Roberts suggested that he might not accept an invitation to the White House with Trump in office. But he did attend last year when the Dodgers celebrated their 2024 title.<\/p>\n

Roberts said the Dodgers found out earlier this week that the White House visit had been scheduled.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a lot of unknown,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cIt\u2019s an off day, and then how could we work this out logistically?\u201d<\/p>\n

That set off \u201ca lot of phone calls, texts, and communication internally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s injury rehab has moved along more quickly than Roberts initially expected. He landed on the injury list in late May after playing in just two games following offseason surgery on his left elbow.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe looks normal,\u201d Roberts said last weekend. \u201cI\u2019m not saying miraculous, but I\u2019m really in disbelief how well he responded, given the injury.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dodgers utility player Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez confirmed Friday what he posted as a comment on Instagram: he won\u2019t be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[217,426,6135,3982,158651,50637,6128,48,52,51,7036,47,50,49,63,1741,974,3020,424,427,81477],"class_list":["post-394612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-day","tag-dodgers","tag-guy","tag-immigrant","tag-injury-list","tag-invitation","tag-kike-hernandez","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-last-year","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-lot","tag-national","tag-president-trump","tag-roberts","tag-team","tag-white-house-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}