Devils Star Helps Kick Off Yankees’ Home Opener With Ceremonial First Pitch
The New Jersey Devils were off Friday, and Jack Hughes had an appointment in the Bronx he could not pass […]
Julian Leshay Guadalupe/NorthJersey. com / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images The New Jersey Devils were off Friday, and Jack Hughes had an appointment in the Bronx he could not pass up. Hughes helped the New York Yankees open their home slate by throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at Yankee Stadium ahead of their 8-2 win over the Miami Marlins.
Hughes represented the United States gold-medal-winning men’s hockey team, along fellow gold-medal winner Aerin Frankel from the USA’s women’s team, on the field in the Bronx. They got a huge ovation from the nearly 49,000 fans at Yankee Stadium, even though thousands undoubtedly were New York Rangers fans. Jack Hughes Was Nervous to Throw Out the First Pitch at Yankee Stadium Julian Leshay Guadalupe/NorthJersey.
com / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Hughes has performed in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. He kept his nerves enough to score the gold-medal-clinching goal in overtime the Olympics, against arch-rival Canada. But of all the post-goal appearances and cameos or meeting the President of the United States, Hughes was most excited, and nervous , about being on the mound at Yankee Stadium.
“When everything went down, this was the one thing I was wondering if it would happen,” Hughes said, according to MLB. com. “I knew a lot of things were coming, but this was the one thing I was always wishing and hoping for.