Lotte Giants vs Kiwoom Heroes Prediction, 4/30/2025 KBO Pick, Tips and Odds

Game: Lotte Giants vs Kiwoom Heroes

Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Location: Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea

TV: SPO-2T

Odds/Point Spread: Lotte (-128) Kiwoom (+106)

Ju Hyoung Lee and the Kiwoom Heroes (11-20, 10th in KBO) play the Lotte Giants (16-13, 4th in KBO) at Gocheok Sky Dome on Wednesday, April 30, 2025. The Heroes open this matchup at +106 while the Giants are coming in at -128. The over/under is set at 8.5.

The Giants have tallied 55 two-baggers as a squad and have smacked 17 balls out of the stadium. Lotte is slugging .392 and have struck out 211 times, while getting the free base on 105 occasions. As a unit, the Lotte Giants are knocking in 4.7 runs per contest, which has them at 4th in KBO. They have earned 132 runs batted in in addition to 292 base knocks on the year, while their team batting average is .282. They have 140 runs scored and hold an OBP of .355.

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Jun-woo Jeon is a hitter who should be able to impact this game for Lotte. For his professional baseball career, Jeon has hit 215 baseballs out of the park while driving in 986 runs. He is sitting with a career slugging percentage of .465 in addition to having tallied 3,050 bases. Over the course of his pro career, he came to the plate 7,377 times and also came through with a hit 1,963 times. He has struck out 1,102 times and has been walked on 615 at-bats, which has contributed to a .364 OBP. Jeon has accrued an average at the plate of .299 for his baseball career, in addition to 1,061 scored runs and an OPS of .829.

The Lotte Giants have earned 795 putouts over the course of the season, in addition to 282 assists and 26 errors. Their fielding percentage is at .976 which has them ranked 8th in the league and have 19 double plays. The Giants have stolen 21 bags and have been thrown out 5 times, which means their caught stealing percentage comes in at 19.2%.

The Giants have an ERA of 4.58 so far this year (7th in KBO), and the staff has struck out 261 batters. Lotte has yielded 263 hits (8.9 per 9 innings) as well as 135 earned runs. Their strikeout to walk ratio sits at 1.92 and the pitching staff holds a collective WHIP of 1.51. Giants pitchers have conceded 24 home runs and also 152 runs in total (3rd in baseball).

Kiwoom has hit 22 home runs so far this year in addition to 115 runs batted in. They have hit 44 two-baggers, while walking 104 times as well as recording 125 runs. The Kiwoom Heroes have accumulated a team OBP of .316 and a batting average of .238 on the year. The Heroes have a team SLG% of .346 and they tally 4.03 runs per game (8th in the league). They have been rung up on 279 instances (1st in the league) and have 249 base knocks.

Ju Hyoung Lee is one batter you are going to want to keep your eye on for Kiwoom. For the 582 at-bats in his baseball career, Lee is sitting with a batting avereage of .258 in addition to 150 hits. He has gone yard 15 times, as well as 223 total bases and also a .383 slugging percentage. Lee has drawn a free base 58 times while fanning on 159 occasions. He is sitting with 96 runs and also has 66 runs batted in. His OBP sits at .346 and he also has a career OPS of .735.

In their 34 attempts at stealing a base, they have been successful 22 times and been caught 12 times (35.3% caught stealing rate). The Kiwoom Heroes have turned 23 double plays and own a fielding percentage of .972 (9th in Korean baseball). The Heroes have accrued 265 assists, 31 errors and have accumulated 807 putouts so far this year.

The Heroes hold a team WHIP of 1.684 in addition to having a FIP of 6.59 as a unit this season. Their K/BB ratio is 1.80 (223 strikeouts against 124 bases on balls). They come in at 1st in baseball as a pitching staff in total hits surrendered with 329. They have given up 35 dingers and they surrender 6.59 runs per 9 innings (9th in KBO). The Kiwoom pitching staff have yielded 197 runs on the season while holding a team ERA of 5.35 (160 earned runs given up).

So what is Tonights Parlay prediction?

Parlay's Pundit's Pick: Take Kiwoom (+106) and under the total runs

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