Lotte Giants vs Kia Tigers Prediction, 7/28/2023 KBO Pick, Tips and Odds

Game: Lotte Giants vs Kia Tigers

Date: Friday, July 28, 2023

Location: Gwangju Kia Champions Field in Gwangju, South Korea

TV: MBC Sports+

Socrates Brito and the Kia Tigers (37-41, 7th in KBO) play the Lotte Giants (40-42, 6th in KBO) at Gwangju Kia Champions Field on Friday, July 28, 2023.

As a squad, the Lotte Giants are putting up 4.3 runs/g, which puts them at 7th in the league. They are sitting with 352 runs while having a team OBP of .327. The Giants have hit 114 doubles as a team and have hit 38 balls out of the park. They have recorded 324 RBI's as well as 703 hits on the campaign, and their average at the plate sits at .255. Lotte has a slugging percentage of .346 and have been called out on strikes 572 times, while taking a walk on 288 occasions.

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Chi-Hong Ahn is a hitter you are going to want to keep your eye on for Lotte. Ahn has a batting average of .297 for his career, in addition to 807 scored runs and an OPS of .798. He has fanned 830 times and has taken a walk on 535 occasions, which contributes in part to a .362 on-base percentage. In his career, Ahn has hit 135 baseballs out of the park while driving in 818 runs. He has accumulated a slugging percentage of .436 and he has racked up 2,410 bases. For his time in the league, he came to the plate 6,290 times and came through with a base hit 1,641 times.

The Giants have swiped 57 bases and have been thrown out 24 times, which tells us their caught stealing rate is 29.6%. The Lotte Giants have earned 2,191 putouts for the season, in addition to 765 assists and 46 errors. Their fielding percentage is at .985 which has them ranked 1st in Korean baseball and have accumulated 64 double plays.

They have accrued a K/BB ratio of 1.82 and the pitching staff has recorded a WHIP of 1.51. Giants pitchers have allowed 53 long balls and 390 runs (4th in the league). Lotte has conceded 770 base knocks (9.5 per 9 innings) and 363 earned runs. The Giants have compiled a team earned run average of 4.47 so far this season (9th in the league), and the staff has struck out 601 hitters.

Kia is sitting with 58 long balls on the campaign to go along with 334 RBIs. They hit 109 doubles, while getting a free base 268 times and scoring 359 runs. The Kia Tigers have tallied a team on-base percentage of .332 in addition to a team batting average of .260 over the course of the season. The Tigers hold a team slugging % of .373 and they average 4.54 runs per game (5th in baseball). They have been rung up on 560 instances (7th in baseball) and have notched a total of 702 hits.

Socrates Brito is a hitter who should be able to impact this game for Kia. Brito has tallied a free base 436 times while fanning on 1,238 occasions. He has accounted for 859 runs in addition to having 737 runs batted in. His OBP comes in at .333 and he is the owner of a lifetime OPS of .766. He has gone deep 129 times, with 2,483 total bases and a .433 slugging %. Over the course of the 5,740 official at-bats in his career, Brito has recorded a batting average of .282 with 1,617 hits.

In their 70 tries at swiping a bag, they have made it 55 times and been caught 15 times (21.4% caught stealing percentage). The Kia Tigers have turned 78 double plays and have a fielding rate of .983 (2nd in the league). The Tigers have accrued 692 assists, 49 errors and have 2,093 putouts for the year.

The Tigers have a WHIP of 1.424 and have a FIP of 4.28 as a unit so far this season. They rank 9th in the league as a staff in total hits allowed with 653. The Kia pitching staff have allowed 332 runs so far this year while holding an ERA of 3.83 (297 earned runs surrendered). They currently have a K/BB ratio of 1.69 (575 strikeouts vs 340 bases on balls). They have surrendered 42 home runs and they surrender 4.28 runs per 9 innings (2nd in the league).

So what is Tonights Parlay prediction?

Parlay's Pundit's Pick: Take Kia and under the total runs

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