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The Boston Red Sox are in Washington, DC, for a series of three holidays for vacation weekends against the Nationals, and they chose to be VIP tourists during their day off.
The SOXs did not have a match on Thursday, so several players made a trip to the White House to visit President Donald Trump.
Trevor Story, Justin Wilson, Abraham Toro, Romy Gonzalez, Connor Wong, Greg Weissert, Wilyer Abreu, Garrett Whitlock, Brennan Bernardino and Rob Refsnyder all shakes Trump’s hand in the oval office.
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A general view of Fenway Park in a match between the Cardinals of St. Louis and the Red Sox from Boston in Boston on April 4, 2025. (Images of Paul Rutherford-Imagn)
“The team visited the White House today as part of their family road trip to DC,” said a team spokesperson via Masslive.
Normally, a team visiting the White House to visit the president is saved to celebrate a championship, but apparently, an exception has been made.
The manager of the Red Sox, Alex Cora, criticized Trump in the past – to the point, to the point that he chose to visit the White House in 2019 to commemorate the title of the World Series of the team compared to the previous year.
During an interview on the podcast of “The Mayor’s Office” in January, Cora admitted that he had jumped to meet Trump because he wanted to give priority to his country of origin of Puerto Rico. When the Red Sox visited the White House in May 2019, Puerto Rico was still recovering from the destruction of Hurricane Maria in 2017, and Cora was not satisfied with the response of the federal government.
The manager of the Boston Red Sox, Alex Cora, # 13, looks against the Rays of Tampa Bay during the fifth round at the Tropicana Field. (Images of Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagne)
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“One of the things that – it’s not that I regret, but I think I should have been clearer – it was a visit to the White House,” said Cora. “I have nothing against the president at that time. It was Donald Trump at that time, President Trump, but I felt celebrating something at this stage [Puerto Ricans] was still suffering, it was bad. I didn’t feel comfortable doing so. “”
Cora says he would have felt “clumsy” celebrating in the White House, given the state of his country at the time.
“We are part of the United States,” he said. “What they are doing for us is incredible – funding, all that – but there was still work to do. And I felt very annoying, like” let’s celebrate this in the White House “while many people have suffered here. People have taken it like politics. No. My thing is sport and my family, right?”
Mookie Betts also chose to skip this year’s visit, but he attended the celebration earlier this year for the title champion Los Angeles Dodgers.
The manager Alex Cora of the Red Sox of Boston during the seventh round against the Rays of Tampa Bay in Fenway Park on October 5, 2022 in Boston. (Winslow Townson / Getty images)
Friday, the Sox-Nats series begins at 11:05 a.m.
