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 celeb visitor for the Yankees’ first recreation of a doubleheader towards the Texas Rangers.
She wore a customized Yankees house jersey that included her title and her No. 22 and bought entry to the sphere, the Yankees clubhouse and the YES Community broadcast sales space.
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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 is big. He is fairly swole, too. Not simply tall, he is fairly sole,” Clark mentioned.
Choose’s 6-foot-7, 282-pound body blew previous her expectations.
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“He is method greater than even folks suppose,” Clark mentioned. “You already know he is huge, however then whenever you get subsequent to him, it is like, ‘Oh my gosh, you could possibly in all probability play soccer, nearly any sport you wish to.’ He’d in all probability be fairly good at basketball, too. However, yeah, he is a superb man, down-to-earth. … He’s like double my top.”
Nonetheless, at 6-foot, 152-pound Clark is not that small.
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 file for many factors scored by a basketball participant, male or feminine.
Clark had time to go to Yankee Stadium after she was controversially left off of the U.S. girls’s Olympic basketball group. Nonetheless, she was named a WNBA All-Star as a rookie and is a prime contender for the league’s Rookie of The 12 months 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 may very well be properly on his solution to his second American League MVP.
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