Aaron Judge on the World Classic: “Bigger and better than the World Series”
The captain of the United States team put his first experience in baseball’s largest international tournament into perspective.
When a star of the caliber of Aaron Judge speaks, the baseball world stops to listen. On this occasion, the captain of the New York Yankees and current captain of the United States Baseball Team He pointed out something, after the victory against Dominican Republicwhich is not normal to hear from American baseball players: World Classic is bigger than the World Series.
Judge and the Yankees they went to the World Series in 2024, losing in five games against Los Angeles Dodgers. The gardener knows what he is talking about when he compares the two events and the type of atmosphere that exists in each of them.
“Honestly, it’s getting bigger. The World Series I was in, the crowd here, the crowd we had in the game against Mexico, is bigger and better than the World Series. The passion that these fans have, representing their country, representing some of their favorite players, there’s nothing like it.“, said Judge to the press.
The words of Judge are similar to those said after the last edition of the World Classic by the then captain of the USA when referring to the tournament.
“You experience it, you want to be in the moment and it reminded me how much I want to get back to the postseason. We haven’t been there since 2014, but that atmosphere, that of the World Baseball Classic, as a baseball fan, you want to be in that moment“, he pointed out Trout after returning to spring training, after the 2023 edition of the tournament.
The fact that two captains of the national team USA give that weight and place to World Baseball Classictalks about how he has been achieving his goal and becoming more important over the years.
The USAwho will play their third consecutive final of the World Baseball Classicnow they await the winner of the semi-final between Italy and Venezuela to find out the team against which they will play the championship match.
