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Boston’s red socks are found in Washington, DC, for a three -game festive weekend series against nationals, and chose to be VIP tourists during their free day.
The Sox stockings did not have a game on Thursday, so several players made a trip to the White House to visit President Donald Trump.
Trevor Story, Justin Wilson, Abraham Toro, Romy González, Connor Wong, Greg Weissert, Wilyer Abreu, Garrett Whitlock, Brennan Bernardino and Rob Refsnyder gave themselves the hand of Trump in the Oval office.
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A general view of Fenway Park during a game between St. Louis cardinals and Boston’s red socks in Boston on April 4, 2025. (Images of Paul Rutherford-Imagn)
“The team toured the White House today as part of its family trip to DC,” said a team spokesman, through Masslive.
Normally, a team that visits the White House to visit the president is saved to celebrate a championship, but apparently, an exception was made.
The manager of the Red Sox, Alex Cora, has criticized Trump in the past, both to the point that he chose to visit the White House in 2019 to commemorate the title of the World World Series from the previous year.
During an interview in the podcast of “The Mayor’s office” in January, Cora admitted that he skipped Trump because he wanted to prioritize his country of origin of Puerto Rico. When the red socks 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 federal government’s response.
The manager of the Red Sox of Boston, Alex Cora, #13, looks against the Rays of Tampa Bay during the fifth entry into Tropicana Field. (Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn images)
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“One of the things that is not that it regrets me, but I think it should have been clearer, it was a visit to the White House,” Cora said. “I have nothing against the president at that time. It was Donald Trump at that time, President Trump, but I felt that he celebrated something at that stage, while [Puerto Ricans] They were still suffering, it was bad. I didn’t feel comfortable. ”
Cora says that he would have felt “uncomfortable” celebrating at the White House, given the state of his country at that time.
“We are part of the United States,” he continued. “What they do for us is incredible, financing, all that, but there was still a job to do. And I felt very uncomfortable, as, let’s celebrate this in the White House ‘, while many people suffered here. People took it as a policy. No. My thing is sports and my family, right?”
Mookie Betts also chose to omit the visit of that year, but attended the celebration earlier this year for the current champion Los Angeles Dodgers.
Manager Alex Cora of the Boston Red Sox during the seventh entry against the Rays of Tampa Bay in Fenway Park on October 5, 2022 in Boston. (Winslow Townson/Getty images)
The Sox-Nats series starts at 11:05 am on Friday.
