Doosan Bears vs NC Dinos Prediction, 9/5/2025 KBO Pick, Tips and Odds

Game: Doosan Bears vs NC Dinos

Date: Friday, September 5, 2025

Location: Changwon NC Park in Changwon, South Korea

TV: TVING

Odds/Point Spread: Doosan (+132) NC (-160)

Changwon NC Park is the venue where Hui Dong Kwon and the NC Dinos (57-58, 7th in KBO) will take on the Doosan Bears (54-65, 9th in KBO) on Friday, September 5, 2025. The Bears open this contest at +132 while the Dinos are priced at -160. The over/under opens at 9.

The Bears have earned 197 two-baggers as a team and have smacked 87 balls out of the park. Doosan has a slugging rate of .384 and have been rung up 1,006 times, while drawing a walk on 407 occasions. As a unit, the Doosan Bears are putting up 4.5 runs per game, which has them at 7th in baseball. They have 519 RBI's and 1,130 hits on the year, and their team batting average is at .263. They are sitting with 566 runs while having a team OBP of .333.

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Jake Cave is a hitter who should impact this game for Doosan. For his career, Cave has hit 142 balls out of the park while driving in 651 runs. His career slugging percentage is .443 in addition to having tallied 2,340 bases. Over the course of his time in the league, he came to the plate 5,857 times and has reached base with a hit 1,464 times. He has gone down on strikes 1,408 times and earned a walk on 453 occasions, which contributes in part to a .339 OBP. Cave has accrued an average at the plate of .277 in his time in baseball, in addition to 785 scored runs and an OPS of .782.

The Doosan Bears have a total of 3,343 putouts for the season, as well as 1,196 assists and 103 errors. Their fielding percentage sits at .978 which puts them in 7th in the league and they have turned 105 double plays. The Bears have stolen 88 bases and have been thrown out 40 times, which shows us their caught stealing percentage sits at 31.3%.

They have a K/BB ratio of 1.89 and the pitching staff has earned a collective WHIP of 1.40. Bears pitchers have conceded 93 home runs and also 595 total runs (5th in KBO). Doosan has allowed 1,081 base hits (8.7 per 9 innings) in addition to 533 earned runs. The Bears have compiled a team ERA of 4.31 over the course of the season (6th in the league), and their staff has rung up 903 hitters.

NC has recorded 109 home runs for the season to go along with 577 runs batted in. They have put up 177 two-baggers, while getting a free base 422 times as well as scoring 617 runs. The NC Dinos have accumulated an OBP of .346 as well as a batting average of .263 over the course of the season. The Dinos have a team slugging % of .401 and they average 5.10 runs per game (3rd in KBO). They have been called out on strikes on 923 instances (6th in KBO) and have notched a total of 1,069 hits.

Hui Dong Kwon is a hitter who should be able to impact this game for NC. Kwon has drawn a walk 513 times while striking out on 664 plate appearances. He has tallied 508 runs in addition to having earned 556 RBIs. His on-base percentage is .367 and he has earned a lifetime OPS of .774. He has gone deep 107 times, as well as 1,435 total bases and a .407 slugging percentage. In the 3,529 at-bats in his professional career, Kwon has compiled an average at the plate of .264 in addition to 931 hits.

Of their 95 chances at stealing a base, they got to the bag before the ball 65 times and been caught 30 times (31.6% caught stealing percentage). The NC Dinos have turned 103 double plays and own a fielding percentage of .977 (10th in the league). The Dinos have 1,172 assists, 103 errors and are sitting with 3,190 putouts for the year.

The Dinos are sitting with a team WHIP of 1.500 in addition to having a FIP of 5.53 as a team this season. They have a ranking of 7th in baseball as a pitching staff in total hits relinquished with 1,066. The NC pitching staff have yielded 653 runs so far this season while holding an ERA of 4.85 (573 earned runs yielded). They currently have a strikeout to walk ratio of 1.64 (865 strikeouts against 529 free passes). They have allowed 120 homers and they yield 5.53 runs per 9 innings (9th in KBO).

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

Josh Schonwald's Pick: Take Doosan (+132)

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