Kiwoom Heroes vs KT Wiz Prediction, 9/27/2024 KBO Pick, Tips and Odds

Game: Kiwoom Heroes vs KT Wiz

Date: Friday, September 27, 2024

Location: Suwon KT Wiz Park in Suwon, South Korea

TV: KN-T

Mel Rojas and the KT Wiz (70-70, 5th in KBO) host the Kiwoom Heroes (58-81, 10th in KBO) at Suwon KT Wiz Park on Friday, September 27, 2024.

The Heroes have hit 215 doubles as a team and have hit 99 balls out of the park. Kiwoom owns a slugging percentage of .380 and have been rung up 1,090 times, while drawing a walk on 479 occasions. As a squad, the Kiwoom Heroes are knocking in 4.7 runs/g, which has them sitting at 10th in baseball. They have accounted for 619 RBI's and 1,280 hits this season, and their average at the plate is at .265. They have 650 runs scored and have an on-base percentage of .338.

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Sung Mun Song is one batter you are going to want to keep your eye on for Kiwoom. For his career, Song has hit 54 baseballs over the fence while driving in 363 runs. He has earned a slugging percentage of .407 in addition to having tallied 934 bases. In his time in the Majors, he came to the plate 2,571 times and has delivered with a hit 631 times. He has fanned 343 times and has walked on 225 occasions, contributing to a .337 on-base %. Song is sitting with a batting avereage of .275 in his time in baseball, in addition to 302 runs scored and an OPS of .744.

The Kiwoom Heroes have 3,687 putouts on the campaign, in addition to 1,265 assists and 103 errors. Their fielding percentage is currently at .980 which puts them in 6th in Korean baseball and they have turned 125 double plays. The Heroes have stolen 115 bases and have been caught 40 times, which shows us their caught stealing percentage is 25.8%.

Their strikeout to walk ratio is 1.86 and the pitching staff has a collective WHIP of 1.50. Heroes pitchers have relinquished 144 home runs and also 759 runs (5th in the league). Kiwoom has surrendered 1,360 hits (10.0 per 9 innings) and 696 earned runs. The Heroes are sitting with a team earned run average of 5.10 on the year (8th in KBO), and the staff has rung up 896 batters.

KT has recorded 143 home runs on the campaign and 704 runs batted in. The have tallied 225 two-baggers, while taking a walk 574 times and scoring 749 runs. The KT Wiz have earned an OBP of .355 as well as a batting average of .277 so far this year. The Wiz have a SLG% of .414 and they average 5.27 runs per game (7th in KBO). They have been rung up on 1,111 occasions (3rd in the league) and have totaled 1,383 base hits.

Mel Rojas is a hitter who should impact this game for KT. Rojas has drawn a free base 500 times while being called out on strikes on 1,363 occasions. His OBP comes in at .335 and he has a has a OPS in his career of .775. Over the course of the 6,536 at-bats in his professional career, Rojas has recorded a batting average of .284 with 1,857 base hits. He has a total of 993 runs and has 879 runs batted in. He has hit it out of the park 162 times, with 2,879 total bases and also a .440 slugging percentage.

The KT Wiz have turned 109 double plays and have a fielding percentage of .978 (7th in Korean baseball). The Wiz have accrued 1,255 assists, 115 errors and have amassed 3,790 putouts for the year. In their 177 chances at getting a steal, they got to the bag before the ball 139 times and been caught 38 times (21.5% caught stealing percentage).

The Wiz hold a team WHIP of 1.475 and are the owners of a FIP of 5.63 as a pitching staff so far this season. They have earned a K/BB ratio of 2.53 (1,101 strikeouts against 436 walks). They come in at 1st in the league as a pitching staff in total hits given up with 1,427. They have surrendered 153 long balls and they relinquish 5.63 runs per 9 innings (9th in the league). The KT pitching staff have allowed 790 runs for the season while having an ERA of 5.11 (717 earned runs conceded).

Who will win tonight's baseball game against the spread?

Josh Schonwald's Pick: Take Kiwoom

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