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In My Own Words: Why I play for the name on the back of my jersey | By Eric Young Jr.

Once the last out was made, I was pretty sure they were going to ask me.

My home run in the eighth inning against the Braves ended up being the game-winner. Doing the postgame interview in front of all the home fans in the stadium comes with the territory. What I didn’t know is what I was going to say, and that the emotions were going to come out of me.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. I should rewind.

At an early age, there was pressure being my dad’s son. But by seven-years-old, I knew I wanted to play sports at the professional level.