Kia Tigers vs LG Twins Prediction, 4/27/2024 KBO Pick, Tips and Odds

Game: Kia Tigers vs LG Twins

Date: Saturday, April 27, 2024

Location: Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul, South Korea

TV: KN-T

Jamsil Baseball Stadium is the site where Austin Dean and the LG Twins (14-13, 5th in KBO) will play the Kia Tigers (20-7, 1st in KBO) on Saturday, April 27, 2024.

Kia is slugging .455 and have been called out on strikes 158 times, while getting the free base on 113 occasions. They have 157 runs batted in in addition to 275 base knocks for the year, while their team batting average is .291. The Tigers have recorded 57 doubles as a team and have smacked 30 balls out of the park. They have accounted for 164 runs scored while having a team OBP of .371. As a squad, the Kia Tigers are scoring 6.1 runs per game, which ranks them 1st in the league.

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Socrates Brito is a batter who can be a difference maker for Kia. For his career, Brito has hit 139 balls out of the park while driving in 796 runs. Over the course of his pro career, he came to bat 6,655 times and came through with a base hit 1,713 times. Brito has accumulated a batting average of .281 for his career, with 917 runs scored and an OPS of .765. He has compiled a slugging percentage of .433 and he has racked up 2,637 bases. He has struck out 1,288 times and has taken a walk on 466 occasions, which contributes in part to a .332 on-base percentage.

The Tigers have swiped 20 bases and have been gunned down 4 times, which means their caught stealing percentage is 16.7%. The Kia Tigers are sitting with 725 putouts at this point in the season, in addition to 264 assists and 31 errors. Their fielding rate is holding steady at .970 which has them sitting 10th in KBO and they have turned 23 double plays.

Their strikeout to walk ratio is 2.15 and the pitching staff has a collective WHIP of 1.40. Tigers pitchers have surrendered 22 home runs and also 120 runs in total (9th in KBO). Kia has relinquished 231 base knocks (8.6 per 9 innings) and 93 earned runs. The Tigers have a team ERA of 3.47 over the course of the season (1st in KBO), and the staff has struck out 230 hitters.

LG has hit 21 home runs on the season as well as 151 RBIs. They have hit 44 doubles, while getting a free base 128 times as well as recording 159 runs. The LG Twins hold an on-base percentage of .370 and a batting average of .289 so far this year. The Twins have a team slugging percentage of .403 and they have an average of 5.48 runs per contest (4th in the league). They have struck out on 205 occasions (7th in the league) and have 290 hits.

Austin Dean is one batter you are going to want to keep your eye on for LG. Dean has tallied a free base 395 times while fanning on 806 chances. His on-base percentage sits at .348 and he holds a has a OPS in his career of .796. In the 4,160 at-bats in his pro career, Dean has an average at the plate of .283 in addition to 1,179 base hits. He has accounted for 625 runs in addition to having 604 RBIs. He has homered 124 times, with 1,864 total bases and also a .448 slugging percentage.

The LG Twins have turned 22 double plays and hold a fielding percentage of .980 (6th in Korean baseball). The Twins have recorded 263 assists, 21 errors and have 771 putouts for the year. Of their 32 tries at swiping a bag, they have had success 24 times and been caught 8 times (25.0% caught stealing percentage).

The Twins have a WHIP of 1.482 and are the owners of a FIP of 5.08 as a unit this season. They are sitting at 2nd in the league as a pitching staff in total hits allowed with 271. The LG pitching staff have surrendered 145 runs for the season while holding an ERA of 4.52 (129 earned runs surrendered). They currently have a strikeout to walk ratio of 2.02 (222 strikeouts vs 110 walks). They have conceded 25 homers and they relinquish 5.08 runs per 9 innings (4th in the league).

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

Tony Sink's Pick: Take Kia

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