"Even if I go to the emergency room, I pour everything out."
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NC Dinos' Son Ah-seop (35) expressed his determination ahead of the "final match."
NC will play KT Wiz in Game 5 of the 2023 Shinhan Bank Sol KBO League Playoff (PO, three wins out of five) at Suwon KT Wiz Park on the 5th.
It's a game where there's no place to back down. NC grabbed the first and second games of PO first, but lost the third and fourth games. It will have a cliffhanger fight with only one win left to advance to the Korean Series.
NC, which finished fourth in the regular season, has been going through wild card finals (WC) and semi-playoffs (semi-PO), and is going through a day-to-day force. He showed tremendous momentum at the beginning of the fall baseball league, but he is unable to avoid physical inferiority as the series is prolonged. The batting lineup, which has been hitting hard, is also on a downward spiral.
Son Ah-seop said, "Honestly, physical problems are the biggest. Even when I go out as a designated hitter, my bat certainly feels heavy as I enter the batter's box. "It's harder for players who play full-time as well as defense, he admitted.
After Game 3 of the PO ended on the 2nd, I was buried in fatigue that I felt for the first time.
Regarding the burden of one fall baseball game, Son Ah-seop compared, "I think it's harder than when I played 18 innings as a doubleheader during the regular season," and added, "It was hard to use chopsticks while eating meat after Game 3. I really felt for the first time that people said, "I don't even have the strength to hold my chopsticks," he shook his head.
No matter how hard your body is, you can't give up. If Son catches the game on the day, Son Ah-seop will be on the KS stage, which he has never stepped on since joining the pro league in 2007.
As he came up to Suwon for the fifth round of PO, he already took all his KS luggage and got on the bus.
Son Ah-seop said, "When you enter the game, endorphins circulate, so you forget your fatigue," adding, "You have to put all your energy into it today." "Even if I am taken to the emergency room after the game, I will pour all my remaining energy and leave the result to heaven," he said emphatically.
"If you say, 'You have to win because it's the fifth game, you have to win it, you have to win it unconditionally,' (juniors) feel stiff and burdened. I am truly proud of my juniors and I think they are really great just to come this far. I hope you enjoy today's day thinking that it's a bonus from heaven," he added.
