Even with his team enjoying an 8-0 lead over the Samsung Lions after six innings of the first game of the Korean Series on Tuesday, KT Wiz closer Park Yeong-hyun stayed prepared for a save opportunity that did not seem likely to come. By getting up in his bullpen to stretch and throw a few pitches at KT Wiz Park in Suwon, just south of Seoul, Park said he was just sticking to his usual routine. "No one can tell what will happen over the course of a game, and so I had gone through all of the usual things that I normally do," Park said afterward. "My coaches had already told me I was going to pitch in this game no matter what. I was ready." However, even the most pessimistic of Wiz fans would not have predicted the game would spin out of control the way it did. One Wiz reliever after another struggled to record outs, and the Lions put up a five-spot in the seventh and scored another in the eighth inning before Park was brought in, as they turned a potential laugher into a nail-biting thriller. Park was called in to put out the fire with one out and the bases loaded in the top of the eighth