“It's not good that Guzook got injured in the middle of the game.”
In a televised interview after Game 2 of the playoffs ended yesterday (Nov. 15), Samsung's Kim Heon-gon was the first to mention Gu Ji-rook.
After Gu was taken out of the game in the bottom of the first inning after feeling pain in his left knee while running the bases, Kim took over in left field in the very next inning.
He then had the “game of his life,” hitting his first career postseason home run, followed by a back-to-back home run.
After starting the interview with the name of his injured teammate, Kim was asked by the reporter for his “last words,” and he named the teammates who were no longer with him.
“I felt bad when (Baek) Jeong Hyun-i got injured by a pitch I hit in the Blue-Black game before the playoffs,” Kim said, ‘and I'm thinking of (Choi) Ji-gwang-yi, who was sick, and even Connor, the foreign pitcher, and I want to do everything I can for them,’ he concluded.
Fourteen years after his professional debut, 메이저사이트 the spotlight is back on fall baseball.
Kim's character is evidenced by his teammates' reactions when he thinks about the players not in the dugout instead of showing off his own ball.
Every time he hit a home run, the Samsung dugout erupted in cheers louder than ever before, and the Samsung team's signature “heart baptism” was in full force.
“My teammates rejoiced with me to the point where I thought, 'When someone did well, did they ever like me that much?'” said Kim. ”I had a year with a lot of personal feelings, and those feelings are the driving force behind the current good atmosphere.”
It's been 10 years since Samsung last won the Korean Series crown in 2014.
In the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 5 of the Korean Series, Kim Heung-geon, who pinch-hit for Choi Hyung-woo, made a spectacular home run on the so-called “miracle fair ball” that ended the game.
Kim is the last Samsung player to remember that glory, and he's carrying that “championship talisman” with him into this fall's baseball season.
“I felt like I was just following my brothers around,” he recalls, ”but I'm really happy to be a part of the team now. I want to go to the Korean Series again as a team,” he said, adding, ”I'm really happy to be a part of the team now.