LG Twins manager Yoon Kyung-yup once again expressed his anger at the team for forcing a game in the heat.
Before the game against the Lotte Giants at Munsugugu Stadium in Ulsan on April 4, Yim said, “Lotte players are also in trouble. Our players were bad, too,” he said, revealing his frustration.
The two teams were scheduled to play a three-game series in Ulsan from Feb. 2 to 4. However, an unprecedented heat wave hit Ulsan, and the artificial turf Munsugugu Stadium was so hot that it was difficult to stand still.
The first game on the second day was canceled due to the heat. It was the first time in the history of the KBO League. The problem was that the game was forced to be played in similar weather on the third day. Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung and coach Yoon strongly requested the cancellation, saying it was “unacceptable,” but the KBO decided to go ahead with the game, saying the weather was better than the day before, with a slight breeze. “Players get burned when they slide,” Yeom said of the KBO’s decision. If they can’t play at 100%, why do they want to force them to play?” he said.
“I thought it was okay to play after the sun went down, but the after-effects were devastating for the players who played on the artificial turf without the geothermal heat cooling down. “Jeon Jun-woo, Yoon Dong-hee, Ko Seung-min, 메이저사이트 and Lee Jung-geun were lying down without eating,”
Kim said, expressing his frustration.
“We had a lot of exhaustion, with Park Dong-won and Moon Bo-kyung vomiting. Shin Min-jae was also bad, but he said he recovered this morning.” “I was used to playing on artificial turf in hot weather when I played baseball in the past, so I was fine. Your body adapts to it. But that’s not the case with today’s players. It’s not something they can handle. It’s the same as when we used to see people collapse during the principal’s discipline during school inspections,” he said.
“Now, of course, we can’t play Ulsan and Pohang on artificial turf in the middle of summer. This is also an experience. People who haven’t played on artificial turf in this kind of weather don’t know. I played on it a lot during my career. When you play, you sweat so much that your legs don’t fall off from the middle. Your pores are completely open and you sweat non-stop. That dries out your muscles, and you get a lot of hamstring injuries. It’s killing the athletes. It increases the risk of injury. If you keep sweating, you get dizzy, and vomiting is inevitable,” he explains.
“If you make a schedule, you make a schedule, and if you can’t play, you just cancel. I don’t know why you play and keep talking and causing problems. After three days of play, I went back to the hotel and was very upset to see reports of players vomiting. They were even given IV fluids this morning.”
Eventually, the decision was made to cancel the fourth day’s game early due to the number of exhausted players on both sides. It was also too hot in Ulsan.