The Boston Red Sox visited Donald Trump today (watch above), but it sure was a swing and a miss by the White House.

Strike 1:  A typo in the official daily WH schedule called them the Red Socks.  Yikes.

Strike 2: Later the communications office sent out the transcript of the event declaring the Sox “World Cup Series Champions.” The world cup, of course, refers to soccer.

Strike 3: Several Red Sox players boycotted the event along with Manager Alex Cora.

The New York Times reports:

The players who joined him in boycotting the White House were either Latino or African-American, and included Mookie Betts, the reigning American League Most Valuable Player, and David Price, whose pitching during the World Series was central to Boston’s victory.

Mr. Trump’s hard-line immigration policies and his harsh comments about countries in Latin America have rankled a number of baseball players in a sport where an increasing number of players are Latino, with the most from the Dominican Republic or Venezuela.

“I made the choice not to go because, as we know, the president has said a lot of stuff about Mexico,” said Hector Velazquez, a pitcher who is Mexican.

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