NC Dinos vs Kiwoom Heroes Prediction, 7/31/2024 KBO Pick, Tips and Odds

Game: NC Dinos vs Kiwoom Heroes

Date: Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Location: Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea

TV: SPO-2T

Sung Mun Song and the Kiwoom Heroes (41-56, 10th in KBO) play the NC Dinos (47-48, 7th in KBO) at Gocheok Sky Dome on Wednesday, July 31, 2024.

NC has a slugging % of .416 and have been called out on strikes 818 times, while getting the free base on 365 occasions. They have accrued 487 RBI's in addition to 892 hits on the year, while their average at the plate is .266. The Dinos have recorded 140 two-baggers as a squad and have knocked 114 balls out of the park. They have accounted for 510 runs scored while holding a team on-base percentage of .352. As a unit, the NC Dinos are notching 5.3 runs per game, which has them at 4th in baseball.

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Ah-seop Son is a batter who should be able to impact this game for NC. In his career, Son has slapped 181 balls out of the park while knocking in 1,036 runs. In his time in the Majors, he came to the plate 8,869 times and has delivered with a hit 2,511 times. Son has earned a batting average of .321 in his time in baseball, with 1,361 scored runs and an OPS of .848. He has recorded a slugging percentage of .455 in addition to having tallied 3,563 bases. He has been struck out 1,274 times and has been walked on 925 occasions, contributing to a .393 on-base percentage.

The NC Dinos have earned a total of 2,592 putouts on the year, as well as 895 assists and 64 errors. Their fielding percentage is holding at .982 which is 2nd in the league and have accumulated 70 double plays. The Dinos have stolen 63 bases and have been thrown out 35 times, which tells us their caught stealing percentage sits at 35.7%.

They have a strikeout to walk ratio of 2.17 and their pitching staff has earned a collective WHIP of 1.47. Dinos pitchers have yielded 87 long balls and also 503 total runs (8th in the league). NC has given up 936 base hits (9.8 per 9 innings) in addition to 447 earned runs. The Dinos hold a team earned run average of 4.66 for the season (5th in baseball), and the staff has rung up 730 batters.

The Heroes have a team SLG% of .388 and they have an average of 4.79 runs per contest (10th in the league). The have tallied 149 two-baggers, while getting a free base 343 times as well as racking up 465 runs. Kiwoom has a total of 71 home runs over the course of the season and 443 RBIs. They have been called out on strikes on 723 instances (7th in KBO) and have recorded 909 base hits. The Kiwoom Heroes hold a team on-base percentage of .344 and a batting average of .271 on the campaign.

Sung Mun Song is a hitter who should be able to impact this game for Kiwoom. Song has tallied a free base 205 times while going down on strikes on 311 occasions. His OBP is .332 and he is the owner of a has a OPS in his career of .729. In the 2,122 official at-bats in his career, Song has hit .270 with 574 base hits. He has accrued 271 runs and has 331 runs batted in. He has hit it out of the park 47 times, as well as 843 bases in total and also a .397 slugging percentage.

The Kiwoom Heroes have turned 90 double plays and own a fielding percentage of .980 (5th in the league). The Heroes have recorded 891 assists, 72 errors and have a total of 2,572 putouts for the season. Out of their 107 chances at stealing a base, they have had success 76 times and been caught 31 times (29.0% caught stealing rate).

The Heroes have a team WHIP of 1.518 and are the owners of a FIP of 5.60 as a unit on the season. Their strikeout to walk ratio is 1.78 (630 strikeouts vs 353 walks). They sit at 4th in the league as a pitching staff in total hits relinquished with 948. They have conceded 96 homers and they allow 5.60 runs per 9 innings (8th in the league). The Kiwoom pitching staff have surrendered 533 runs this season while having an ERA of 5.11 (487 earned runs yielded).

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

Guy Bruhn's Pick: Take NC

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