KT Wiz vs Kia Tigers Prediction, 6/18/2025 KBO Pick, Tips and Odds

Game: KT Wiz vs Kia Tigers

Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Location: Gwangju Kia Champions Field in Gwangju, South Korea

TV: MS-T

Odds/Point Spread: KT (-145) Kia (+125)

Patrick Wisdom and the Kia Tigers (34-33, 7th in KBO) play the KT Wiz (36-31, 4th in KBO) at Gwangju Kia Champions Field on Wednesday, June 18, 2025. The line on this game has the Wiz priced at -145 and the Tigers are at +125. The total is set at 9.

KT has a slugging rate of .375 and have struck out 489 times, while drawing a walk on 272 occasions. They have accounted for 293 runs batted in in addition to 616 hits over the course of the season, and their team batting average is at .259. The Wiz have compiled 111 two-baggers as a squad and have knocked 48 balls out of the park. They have earned a total of 313 runs scored while holding a team on-base percentage of .339. As a unit, the KT Wiz are recording 4.5 runs per game, which is 6th in baseball.

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Sung-Woo Jang is a batter who should be able to impact this game for KT. In his career, Jang has hit 112 balls out of the park while driving in 559 runs. In his time spent in pro baseball, he came to bat 4,258 times and has come through with a base hit 949 times. Jang has hit .257 for his baseball career, with 384 scored runs and an OPS of .741. He has earned a slugging percentage of .386 and he has accumulated 1,427 bases. He has struck out 784 times and has been walked on 453 attempts at the plate, contributing to a .337 on-base %.

The Wiz have swiped 69 bases and have been thrown out 18 times, which shows us their caught stealing percentage comes in at 20.7%. The KT Wiz have a total of 1,884 putouts thus far, in addition to 697 assists and 41 errors. Their fielding percentage is at .984 which ranks 4th in KBO and they have turned 49 double plays.

They have earned a K/BB ratio of 2.49 and the pitching staff has a collective WHIP of 1.32. Wiz pitchers have relinquished 50 home runs and 276 runs in total (7th in the league). KT has yielded 609 hits (8.7 per 9 innings) and also 242 earned runs. The Wiz have a team ERA of 3.47 so far this year (2nd in baseball), and they have struck out 552 hitters.

The Kia Tigers are sitting with a team on-base percentage of .335 in addition to a batting average of .252 so far this year. They have struck out on 534 occasions (5th in baseball) and have 580 base hits. Kia has recorded 60 long balls for the year to go along with 286 runs batted in. The Tigers have a team SLG% of .390 and they average 4.59 runs per game (5th in the league). They have 128 doubles, while taking a walk 271 times and earning 312 runs.

Patrick Wisdom is a hitter who should be able to impact this game for Kia. Wisdom has earned a walk 566 times while fanning on 1,641 occasions. His on-base % is .321 and he has a lifetime OPS of .779. Over the course of the 5,125 official at-bats in his professional career, Wisdom has hit .241 in addition to having 1,236 base knocks. He has recorded 767 runs in addition to having 838 RBIs. He has gone deep 262 times, with 2,348 total bases and a .458 slugging %.

The Kia Tigers have turned 54 double plays and have a fielding percentage of .979 (5th in the league). The Tigers have racked up 664 assists, 52 errors and have accumulated 1,799 putouts on the campaign. Out of their 78 attempts at swiping a bag, they have had success 59 times and been caught 19 times (24.4% caught stealing percentage).

The Tigers hold a team WHIP of 1.425 with a FIP of 4.76 as a pitching staff on the season. Their strikeout to walk ratio sits at 2.11 (520 strikeouts vs 247 bases on balls). They are sitting at 5th in the league as a pitching staff in total hits given up with 607. They have allowed 44 homers and they give up 4.76 runs per 9 innings (6th in KBO). The Kia pitching staff have relinquished 317 runs on the campaign while holding an ERA of 4.27 (284 earned runs conceded).

Who will win tonight's KBO game ATS?

Guy Bruhn's Pick: Take Kia (+125)

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