WNBA rookie phenom Caitlin Clark was “most excited” to fulfill New York Yankees captain Aaron Choose throughout a go to to the Bronx on Saturday.
However she was nonetheless stunned by the sheer measurement of the person who awaited her.
Clark was a star visitor for the Yankees’ first recreation of a doubleheader towards the Texas Rangers.
She wore a customized Yankees house jersey that included her identify and her No. 22 and received entry to the sector, the Yankees clubhouse and the YES Community broadcast sales space.
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Caitlin Clark and Juan Soto pose for a photograph earlier than a recreation between the Texas Rangers and the New York Yankees. (New York Yankees/Getty Pictures)
When Clark joined Yankees broadcasters Michael Kay and Paul O’Neill on-air within the prime of the third inning, she revealed her expertise of seeing Choose up shut for the primary time, admitting he was the participant she was most excited to fulfill.
“He’s huge. He’s pretty swole, too. Not just tall, he’s pretty sole,” Clark mentioned.
Choose’s 6-foot-7, 282-pound body blew previous her expectations.
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Aaron Choose and Caitlin Clark pose for a photograph earlier than a recreation between the Texas Rangers and the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. (New York Yankees/Getty Pictures)
“He’s way bigger than even people think,” Clark mentioned. “You know he’s big, but then when you get next to him, it’s like, ‘Oh my gosh, you could probably play football, just about any sport you want to.’ He’d probably be pretty good at basketball, too. But, yeah, he’s a good guy, down-to-earth. … He’s like double my height.”
Nonetheless, at 6-foot, 152-pound Clark is not that small.
Aaron Choose provides Caitlin Clark a pair of his cleats earlier than a recreation between the Texas Rangers and the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. (New York Yankees/Getty Pictures)
The 22-year-old Clark was the primary total choose within the 2024 WNBA Draft by the Indiana Fever after a storied profession at Iowa. As a Hawkeye, Clark broke the NCAA report for many factors scored by a basketball participant, male or feminine.
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Clark had time to go to Yankee Stadium after she was controversially left off of the U.S. girls’s Olympic basketball staff. Nonetheless, she was named a WNBA All-Star as a rookie and is a prime contender for the league’s Rookie of The Yr award.
Choose, 30, is within the midst of arguably the most effective season of his profession. Choose is main all of baseball in house runs with 41, RBIs with 105 and OPS with a 1.148, and he could possibly be effectively on his approach to his second American League MVP.
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