Doosan Bears vs Kiwoom Heroes Prediction, 6/1/2025 KBO Pick, Tips and Odds

Game: Doosan Bears vs Kiwoom Heroes

Date: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Location: Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea

TV: MS-T

Odds/Point Spread: Doosan (-196) Kiwoom (+162)

Gocheok Sky Dome is the site where Ruben Cardenas and the Kiwoom Heroes (14-43, 10th in KBO) will play the Doosan Bears (22-29, 9th in KBO) on Sunday, June 1, 2025. The Heroes open this contest at +162 while the Bears are priced at -196. The total has been set at 8.

The Bears have tallied 87 two-baggers as a unit and have hit 37 balls out of the stadium. Doosan is slugging .377 and have been rung up 455 times, while being walked on 194 occasions. As a team, the Doosan Bears are compiling 4.6 runs per game, which has them sitting at 6th in the league. They have 227 runs batted in and 486 base knocks over the course of the season, while their average at the plate is at .260. They have 247 runs while holding a team OBP of .336.

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Suk Hwan Yang is a hitter who can be a difference maker for Doosan. For his professional baseball career, Yang has hit 162 baseballs out of the park while driving in 629 runs. For his career, he approached the plate 4,133 times and has come through with a base hit 984 times. Yang has an average at the plate of .262 for his baseball career, in addition to 489 runs scored and an OPS of .765. His slugging percentage is .447 and he has racked up 1,677 bases. He has struck out 877 times and has been walked on 278 occasions, which has contributed to a .318 on-base %.

The Bears have swiped 41 bases and have been caught 19 times, which shows us their caught stealing percentage comes in at 31.7%. The Doosan Bears have 1,390 putouts on the year, in addition to 467 assists and 39 errors. Their fielding rate is currently at .979 which puts them in 6th in KBO and they have turned 40 double plays.

The Bears hold a team ERA of 4.11 over the course of the season (5th in the league), and the staff has struck out 396 hitters. Bears pitchers have allowed 37 home runs in addition to 249 total runs (5th in baseball). Doosan has relinquished 446 base knocks (8.4 per 9 innings) and also 219 earned runs. Their strikeout to walk ratio is 1.99 and the pitching staff has earned a collective WHIP of 1.34.

Kiwoom has knocked in 38 HRs on the year to go along with 193 RBIs. They have hit 74 doubles, while taking a walk 171 times as well as earning 205 runs. The Kiwoom Heroes have an OBP of .304 and a batting average of .234 so far this season. The Heroes have a SLG% of .337 and they tally 3.60 runs per game (10th in KBO). They have struck out on 498 occasions (1st in KBO) and have tallied 452 base hits.

Ruben Cardenas is one batter you are going to want to keep your eye on for Kiwoom. Cardenas has tallied a free base 276 times while going down on strikes on 656 attempts. He has tallied 431 runs and has 487 RBIs. His OBP comes in at .346 and he holds a has a OPS in his career of .825. He has hit it out of the park 120 times, with 1,314 total bases and a .479 slugging %. During the 2,744 at-bats in his career, Cardenas has compiled an average at the plate of .273 with 748 hits.

The Kiwoom Heroes have turned 44 double plays and have earned a fielding percentage of .978 (8th in KBO). The Heroes have accrued 492 assists, 44 errors and have earned a total of 1,440 putouts for the year. In their 64 tries at stealing a base, they got to the bag before the ball 42 times and been caught 22 times (34.4% caught stealing percentage).

The Heroes have a WHIP of 1.712 and have a FIP of 6.90 as a team on the season. They are sitting at 1st in baseball as a staff in total hits conceded with 614. The Kiwoom pitching staff have given up 380 runs on the season while holding an ERA of 6.08 (335 earned runs yielded). They currently have a strikeout to walk ratio of 1.62 (380 strikeouts against 235 bases on balls). They have given up 59 HR's and they give up 6.90 runs per 9 innings (10th in the league).

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

Tony Sink's Pick: Take Doosan (-196)

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