Kiwoom Heroes vs Kia Tigers Prediction, 3/27/2025 KBO Pick, Tips and Odds
Game: Kiwoom Heroes vs Kia Tigers
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2025
Location: Gwangju Kia Champions Field in Gwangju, South Korea
TV: TVING
Odds/Point Spread: Kiwoom (+162) Kia (-196)
Chan Ho Park and the Kia Tigers (87-55, 1st in KBO) host the Kiwoom Heroes (58-86, 10th in KBO) at Gwangju Kia Champions Field on Thursday, March 27, 2025. The Tigers open this matchup at -196 while the Heroes are priced at +162. The total has been set at 8.5.
Kiwoom owned a slugging percentage of .380 and were called out on strikes 1,141 times, while getting the free base on 492 occasions. They amassed 641 RBI's as well as 1,326 base knocks for the prior year, while their team batting average was .264. The Heroes tallied 222 two-baggers as a team and hit 104 baseballs out of the park. They racked up 672 runs scored and held an on-base percentage of .337. As a unit, the Kiwoom Heroes notched 4.7 runs per contest, which had them at 10th in baseball.
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Ju Hyoung Lee is one batter you are going to want to keep your eye on for Kiwoom. For his career, Lee has hit 13 baseballs over the fence while driving in 60 runs. He is sitting with a career slugging percentage of .390 in addition to having tallied 194 bases. For his career, he stepped up to bat 565 times and also came through with a base hit 130 times. He has fanned 129 times and earned a walk on 50 at-bats, contributing to a .348 on-base percentage. Lee is sitting with a batting avereage of .262 for his baseball career, with 85 scored runs and an OPS of .712.
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The Heroes stole 117 bases and were thrown out 40 times, which tells us their caught stealing rate was 25.5%. The Kiwoom Heroes had a tally of 3,818 putouts for the prior year, in addition to 1,309 assists and 104 errors. Their fielding rate held steady at .980 which put them in 4th in Korean baseball and had 129 double plays.
The Heroes had a team ERA of 5.16 over the course of last season (9th in baseball), and their staff rung up 921 hitters. They walked 497 opposing batters and their FIP came in at 5.63 as a team for the previous season. Kiwoom allowed 1,416 hits (10.0 per 9 innings) and 729 earned runs. They had a K/BB ratio of 1.85 and their pitching staff finished with a WHIP of 1.50.
The Tigers had a team slugging percentage of .459 and they earned 5.96 runs per game (1st in the league). They recorded 266 two-baggers, while walking 529 times as well as putting up 858 runs. Kia was sitting with 163 home runs during the previous year and 812 runs batted in. They were called out on strikes on 915 occasions (10th in KBO) and totaled 1,542 base knocks. The Kia Tigers had an on-base percentage of .370 as well as a team batting average of .301 last year.
Chan Ho Park is a batter who should be able to impact this game for Kia. Over the course of the 3,071 at-bats in his professional career, Park has recorded a batting average of .262 with 804 hits. He has gone deep 18 times, in addition to having 1,005 total bases and a .327 slugging %. Park has recorded a free base 276 times while going down on strikes on 467 plate appearances. He has accrued 440 runs and also has 311 RBIs. His on-base percentage sits at .322 and he also has a has a OPS in his career of .649.
The Kia Tigers turned 133 double plays and owned a fielding percentage of .973 (10th in Korean baseball). The Tigers racked up 1,400 assists, 146 errors and had a total of 3,864 putouts last season. In their 139 tries at stealing a base, they got to the bag before the ball 108 times and were caught 31 times (22.3% caught stealing rate).
The Tigers had a WHIP of 1.478 with a FIP of 5.30 as a pitching staff during the previous year. They earned a strikeout to walk ratio of 2.09 (1,125 strikeouts against 539 walks). They were ranked 8th in baseball as a pitching staff in total hits relinquished with 1,365. They gave up 141 homers and they allowed 5.30 runs per 9 innings (4th in the league). The Kia pitching staff conceded 759 runs for the prior year and come in with a team ERA of 4.40 (629 earned runs yielded).
Who will win tonight's KBO game against the spread?
Guy Bruhn's Pick: Take Kiwoom (+162)
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