"I really want to call you the room of truth"...Park Se-woong, who failed to keep the "six point" lead, was diagnosed as "mental" in the end

"I really want to call you the room of truth"...Park Se-woong, who failed to keep the "six point" lead, was diagnosed as "mental" in the end

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"I want to call you to the room of truth"

Lotte Giants' Park Se-woong started the away match in Game 7 of the season between the Doosan Bears and the team in the 2024 Shinhan Bank SOL Bank KBO League at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 3rd and collapsed with 90 pitches, eight hits (one homer), two walks, four strikeouts and six runs (six earned) in four innings.

It is Park Se-woong who seems to be recovering but is hardly recovering. Park was not bad with five wins, three losses and an ERA of 3.59 until the game against the KIA Tigers ended on May 22. Rather, Park played a proper role as a "native ace." However, the game against the Hanwha Eagles in Daejeon on May 28 was a problem. Park Se-woong, who had already performed poorly in Daejeon, lost 10 runs (nine earned runs) as many as 11 hits (one homer) during four ⅔ innings.
At the time, head coach Kim Tae-hyung left a bitter comment against Park Se-woong, but the slump began with the match against Hanwha in Daejeon. After allowing four runs (four earned runs) in four ⅔ innings in the match against the NC Dinos, which was his first appearance in June, Park Se-woong repeatedly pitched against SSG Landers (five runs in five innings), the LG Twins (four runs in six innings), and the Kiwoom Heroes (four runs in six innings). On allowing more points from the beginning of the game, Kim Tae-hyung said after the match against Kiwoom on the 12th of last month, "I give you more points in the first inning easily. So I asked him, 'Do you want to throw from the second inning next time?'

"I have to use strike zones in various ways, but I tend to lean towards only one side," coach Kim Tae-hyung said, expressing concern over possible trauma. "Park Se-woong would be comfortable, but he has a bad performance in the first inning. And I think it is in the same vein that if he gets hit in consecutive innings, he scores three to four points in a row." Since then, Park has given up one run (one earned run) in six innings against KIA on Wednesday, sending a signal of revival. However, the trend did not last long.

Park Se-woong received strong support from the batters from the start of the game on the previous day (3rd). In the first inning, Jeon Joon-woo hit a solo home run to give him the first run, and in the second inning, Noh Jin-hyuk and Jeon Jun-woo produced five runs, giving them as many as six runs. Park Se-woong got off to a good start by turning Doosan's top lineup into a three-out strike in the first inning, but in the absence of a runner with two outs in the second inning, he was in a crisis by getting a double from Yang Seok-hwan, and allowed Kang Seung-ho to make a timely hit to catch up. Since then, he has given up an infield hit to Park Joon-young, causing a run crisis.

Still, giving up one run in the second inning did not have a significant impact on the flow of the game, but the problem was from the third inning. Park Se-woong quickly built an out count by catching Jung Soo-bin and Heo Kyung-min, got a hit by Henry Ramos, and was hit by a 121km curve thrown at Yang Eui-ji, allowing a two-run home run. And in the fourth inning, center fielder Hwang Sung-bin overcame the crisis caused by making a mistake in the judgment of the hit, but after receiving consecutive hits from Heo Kyung-min and Ramos from the start of the fifth inning, he gave Yang Eui-ji a walk, causing a grand slam crisis and going down the mound.

When coach Joo Hyung-kwang took the mound, Park Se-woong could not hide his disappointment, but in the end, the grand slam crisis developed into the worst trend. Kim Sang-soo, who took over the baton from Park Se-woong, took a breather by striking out Kim Jae-hwan, the first batter, but the result of throwing a 147km fastball on the high course led to a come-from-behind grand slam. As a result, all the successors Park Se-woong sent out went home, recording six runs (six earned runs), and Lotte also knelt 8-13 after a slugfest, putting the brakes on its winning streak ahead of the first half's deadline.

How did head coach Kim Tae-hyung see Park Se-woong's pitch? "Yesterday (on the 3rd) I just had to go until the 6th inning. I should have mixed the fastball with the breaking ball properly, but I threw too many changes. Don't we know what kind of pitches you throw? It's a shame yesterday," Kim said of his unusually low fastball ratio this year. "It's more about how you use it than how you throw a lot of fastballs." 먹튀검증

Park's pitching was regrettable as he dominated the mood by bombarding Doosan's mound from the beginning of the game. "I told him not to care about the runner but to deal with the batter," the head coach said on the scene where he talked with Park on the mound. "I try to throw the ball in a difficult way just because I care about the runner. Even if he thinks that he gives a point and asks the batter to throw it, it doesn't seem to work. I try to throw it too well," Park said with an awkward smile. "Yesterday, I really wanted to call it 'The Room of Truth.'"

In the end, the head coach believes that mental problems are bigger than technical problems. "Up until now, I've never liked it for two to three years even though I have good pitches. I think that's what mental strength is all about. When you throw on the mound, you have to overcome these things to become an ace. Lindblom, Nippert, and Rios used to have good pitches, but when you watch it, it was the seventh inning in no time. It's not that the opponent doesn't stop you from hitting the ball, but when the winning spirit comes, you can't breathe and enter the game. However, if you keep taking out the ball and lose the flow toward the batter, it becomes difficult," coach Kim Tae-hyung said.

"If you go into the center, the opponent team will likely hit you, so when you are in an advantageous position, you will have a hard time, but when you are in a disadvantageous position, you will win." Manager Kim Tae-hyung said, "The ball is not a powerful ball. You should have thought about whether you will throw the curve high or low, and dropped the curve sharply against (Yang) will on Wednesday. And that's how important the catcher's lead is."

Once the second half of the season begins, Lotte's starting lineup is expected to gain some breathing space. Charlie Barnes, the left-handed pitcher, threw a fastball of up to 145 kilometers to prepare to return to the mound after four innings of three hits, no outs, and no strikeouts. "I think I will join the team in the second half of the season," manager Kim Tae-hyung said.