Kiké Hernández on why he'll miss Dodgers' White House visit - Los Angeles Times 8%
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July 10, 2026 8:23 PM PT
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Dodgers utility player Kiké Hernández confirmed Friday what he posted as a comment on Instagram: he won’t be going to the White House on July 23, when President Trump will honor the team for its 2025 World Series championship .
Instead, Hernández (strained left oblique) is scheduled to be on a minor-league rehab assignment.
“It’s going to be hard to be in two cities at the same time,” Hernández said.
“If I was active, I probably wouldn’t have gone anyways.”
“I’d rather take a day off than do team activities,” he said.
Last year, Hernández expressed his support for immigrants in Los Angeles on social media amid ICE raids authorized by the Trump administration.
The White House visit will be on a day off in the middle of a nine-game East Coast trip.
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“I’m sure a lot of guys are going to participate and be there, and this is an individual choice,” Roberts said.
“But I do expect a lot of our guys to be there.”
Scheduling conflicts when the Dodgers played the Nationals in Washington on April 3-5 pushed back the trip.
“This took a long time to get both sides together, and, honestly, like I’ve always said, my company line, my personal line is I hope that we get this invitation every year,” Dodgers manager Roberts said.
“Because that’s the goal: to win a championship, to get this invitation to the White House.
And I’m not a politician, and I’m doing something that teams have done for decades.
And so that’s where I stand, really.
I’m a baseball coach.
That’s what I do.”
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.
Roberts said the Dodgers found out earlier this week that the White House visit had been scheduled.
The visit will take place during an East Coast road trip following next week’s All-Star break and will be the third time the White House has hosted the team this decade.
“There was a lot of unknown,” Roberts said.
“It’s an off day, and then how could we work this out logistically?”
That set off “a lot of phone calls, texts, and communication internally.”
Hernández’s 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.
“He looks normal,” Roberts said last weekend.
“I’m not saying miraculous, but I’m really in disbelief how well he responded, given the injury.”
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Maddie Lee covers the Dodgers for the Los Angeles Times.
She joined the paper in March 2026 after six years in Chicago, where she was a Cubs beat writer for the Chicago Sun-Times and NBC Sports Chicago.
Her previous stops include the Oklahoman, the Clarion-Ledger, the Salt Lake Tribune and the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer.
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