Samsung Lions vs Kia Tigers Prediction, 9/9/2025 KBO Pick, Tips and Odds

Game: Samsung Lions vs Kia Tigers

Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Location: Gwangju Kia Champions Field in Gwangju, South Korea

TV: KN-T

Odds/Point Spread: Samsung (-144) Kia (+120)

Gwangju Kia Champions Field is the site where Hyoung Woo Choi and the Kia Tigers (57-63, 8th in KBO) will play the Samsung Lions (63-61, 4th in KBO) on Tuesday, September 9, 2025. The Tigers open this contest at +120 while the Lions are coming in at -144. The O/U opens at 8.5.

Samsung has a slugging percentage of .418 and have struck out 940 times, while getting the free base on 486 occasions. They have compiled 616 runs batted in and 1,148 hits for the season, while their team batting average sits at .268. The Lions have earned 204 doubles as a unit and have hit 136 balls out of the park. They have racked up 659 runs scored while holding a team OBP of .349. As a squad, the Samsung Lions are scoring 5.2 runs/g, which is 2nd in the league.

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Jae Hyeon Lee is one batter you are going to want to keep your eye on for Samsung. For his professional baseball career, Lee has hit 45 baseballs out of the park while driving in 203 runs. For his time in the league, he came to the plate 1,721 times and also came through with a base knock 360 times. Lee has compiled an average at the plate of .244 for his career, with 219 runs scored and an OPS of .712. His slugging percentage is .382 and he has a total of 564 bases. He has fanned 322 times and has walked on 174 occasions, which contributes in part to a .330 on-base percentage.

The Lions have swiped 96 bases and have been thrown out 24 times, which shows us their caught stealing percentage comes in at 20.0%. The Samsung Lions are sitting with 3,331 putouts on the campaign, in addition to 1,213 assists and 78 errors. Their fielding percentage is holding at .983 which puts them in 1st in KBO and they have turned 103 double plays.

They have a strikeout to walk ratio of 2.39 and the pitching staff holds a collective WHIP of 1.34. Lions pitchers have surrendered 118 home runs and also 562 total runs (7th in KBO). Samsung has relinquished 1,099 base hits (8.9 per 9 innings) and also 506 earned runs. The Lions hold a team earned run average of 4.10 this season (5th in baseball), and their staff has rung up 920 batters.

Kia has a total of 128 home runs this year and 558 RBIs. They have hit 212 doubles, while taking a walk 468 times and putting up 598 runs. The Kia Tigers have accounted for a team on-base percentage of .340 and a team batting average of .262 on the season. The Tigers hold a team slugging percentage of .407 and they have an average of 4.82 runs per contest (4th in the league). They have been called out on strikes on 1,009 occasions (3rd in KBO) and have accounted for 1,122 base knocks.

Hyoung Woo Choi is a batter who can be a difference maker for Kia. In the 8,305 at-bats in his professional career, Choi has accumulated a batting average of .310 and has racked up 2,572 base knocks. He has gone deep 416 times, with 4,401 total bases and also a .530 slugging %. Choi has tallied a free base 1,194 times while fanning on 1,493 attempts. He has a total of 1,358 runs and also has 1,729 RBIs. His on-base percentage is .400 and he has a has a OPS in his career of .930.

The Kia Tigers have turned 108 double plays and have notched a fielding percentage of .977 (9th in Korean baseball). The Tigers have 1,242 assists, 105 errors and have earned a total of 3,296 putouts so far this year. In their 133 tries at getting a steal, they have had success 98 times and been caught 35 times (26.3% caught stealing percentage).

The Tigers are sitting with a team WHIP of 1.441 in addition to having a FIP of 5.14 as a unit for the year. Their strikeout to walk ratio is 2.04 (904 strikeouts vs 443 walks). They are currently ranked 4th in baseball as a staff in total hits conceded with 1,140. They have given up 92 home runs and they surrender 5.14 runs per 9 innings (8th in KBO). The Kia pitching staff have relinquished 627 runs so far this season while holding an ERA of 4.65 (567 earned runs yielded).

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

Guy Bruhn's Pick: Take Samsung (-144)

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