Aaron Judge says Team USA baseball 'fired up' after hockey gold, wants to 'copy' what Olympic teams did

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Another mentation of Team USA, this clip connected the shot diamond, is preparing to bring location a golden medal, arsenic the World Baseball Classic (WBC) is acceptable to commencement this week.

The U.S. has done good successful caller sporting events, including the men’s and women’s crystal hockey teams, who some defeated Canada successful the Milan Cortina Games past month. Both games ended with an overtime goal, with Megyn Keller’s backhand winning it for the women and Jack Hughes’ heroics for the men.

Team USA shot skipper Aaron Judge, the three-time MVP for the New York Yankees, made an quality connected "The Pat McAfee Show" connected Monday, wherever helium admitted those hockey performances were getting his teammates fired up for the WBC.

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Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees speaks to the media aft being named 2026 WBC Team USA skipper during the crippled betwixt the Kansas City Royals and the New York Yankees astatine Yankee Stadium connected Monday, April 14, 2025 successful New York, New York. (Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos)

"Boys were fired up," helium said erstwhile McAfee asked him his thoughts connected Hughes’ extremity successful particular. "Hughes, man, we sent truthful galore pictures of Hughes successful the radical text. It was great.

"It’s kinda chill that it’s going to snowball into this. Just the excitement we had erstwhile I was with the Yankees, and past with the radical text, the boys were pumped up. Now, it’s WBC, we get the accidental to propulsion connected the red, white, and bluish and transcript what they did."

Judge added that it was a "special run" some the men and women had.

Of course, Judge is hoping his 2 weeks distant from the Yankees volition beryllium good worthy it, arsenic the U.S. seeks revenge for finishing with the metallic during the 2023 WBC, losing to Japan successful the title game.

Judge’s teammate, archetypal baseman Bryce Harper, shared the aforesaid sentiment arsenic his captain. Harper has been wearing the Stars and Stripes for immoderate clip now, having played for the U-18 nationalist squad successful 2008.

Philadelphia Phillies' Bryce Harper looks connected aft getting ejected for arguing connected a checked plaything during the seventh inning of a shot crippled against the Detroit Tigers, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025, successful Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)

He announced helium would play for the 2023 WBC team, but helium was rehabbing from Tommy John country which didn’t let him to play.

He’s steadfast present and excited to correspond his state erstwhile more.

"I learned erstwhile I was young, erstwhile you enactment U.S. connected our hats, it’s astir us," helium explained erstwhile it was his crook to deterioration the headset connected McAfee’s show. "That’s wherefore it’s lone U.S. and not USA. It’s astir us. So, for our team, it’s astir everybody that’s successful that clubhouse. No substance wherever you came from, who you played for, what you got, we don’t attraction due to the fact that each azygous time we travel retired here, it’s for the greater bully of America. What we’re doing for the people, who we’re representing.

Aaron Judge looks connected during media session

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"I’m arrogant to beryllium American. I’m truthful blessed to beryllium successful this clubhouse with each these guys and there’s nary greater feeling than going retired there, proceeding the nationalist anthem blare implicit the speakers. Knowing what you represent."

Team USA begins its WBC docket against Brazil connected March 6 astatine Daikin Park successful Houston, Texas.

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