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The captain wasn't clutch.
Yankees' Aaron Judge confirms NYY fans' worst fears in WBC for Team USA originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . "Aaron Judge doesn't come through when it matters.
" That's a phrase that some New York Yankees fans will stand behind passionately. And on the World Baseball Classic stage, the captain made them feel quite validated. It was a brutal, uncomfortable, awful Tuesday night in Miami for Judge.
He came to bat four times for Team USA. He struck out in three of them and was held hitless. For the tournament, Judge batted just .
222. He did hit two home runs and work a lot of counts (and was robbed of a semifinal homer by Julio Rodriguez), but the refrain won't stop after this. Judge was called out on strikes to end the bottom of the first inning.