SSG Landers vs Lotte Giants Prediction, 8/8/2025 KBO Pick, Tips and Odds

Game: SSG Landers vs Lotte Giants

Date: Friday, August 8, 2025

Location: Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan, South Korea

TV: KN-T

Odds/Point Spread: SSG (+172) Lotte (-210)

Jun-woo Jeon and the Lotte Giants (57-45, 3rd in KBO) play the SSG Landers (50-48, 5th in KBO) at Sajik Baseball Stadium on Friday, August 8, 2025. The Giants open this matchup at -210 while the Landers are coming in at +172. The over/under opens at 8.5.

The Landers have accumulated 124 two-baggers as a unit and have hit 73 balls out of the stadium. SSG is slugging .350 and have been rung up 827 times, while being walked on 377 occasions. As a squad, the SSG Landers are knocking in 4.0 runs per game, which is 9th in baseball. They have accumulated 384 runs batted in and 835 hits on the campaign, while their team batting average sits at .244. They have earned a total of 409 runs scored while holding a team on-base percentage of .324.

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Ji Hoon Choi is a hitter who should be able to impact this game for SSG. For his career, Choi has drilled 32 balls out of the park while knocking in 239 runs. For his time in baseball, he came to the plate 3,181 times and has notched a base knock 773 times. Choi has accrued an average at the plate of .273 in his time in baseball, with 438 runs scored and an OPS of .709. He has accumulated a slugging percentage of .373 and he has racked up 1,057 bases. He has fanned 422 times and has gotten a free base on 252 occasions, contributing to a .336 on-base %.

The Landers have swiped 78 bags and have been caught 31 times, which tells us their caught stealing percentage sits at 28.4%. The SSG Landers have a tally of 2,726 putouts at this point in the season, in addition to 996 assists and 76 errors. Their fielding percentage is currently at .980 which is 5th in Korean baseball and have accumulated 95 double plays.

The Landers have an earned run average of 3.52 on the season (2nd in baseball), and they have rung up 857 batters. Landers pitchers have conceded 74 home runs and also 396 runs in total (9th in baseball). SSG has conceded 815 base hits (8.1 per 9 innings) in addition to 355 earned runs. They have earned a strikeout to walk ratio of 2.30 and the pitching staff holds a collective WHIP of 1.31.

The Giants hold a team slugging % of .382 and they earn 4.83 runs per game (4th in baseball). They have notched 184 two-baggers, while taking a walk 377 times as well as notching 507 runs. Lotte has accumulated 53 home runs for the season to go along with 475 RBIs. They have struck out on 715 occasions (10th in KBO) and have recorded 991 base hits. The Lotte Giants have earned an OBP of .351 in addition to a team batting average of .276 for the year.

Jun-woo Jeon is a batter who can be a difference maker for Lotte. For the 6,837 at-bats in his baseball career, Jeon has accrued an average at the plate of .299 with 2,044 hits. He has homered 220 times, as well as 3,168 total bases and a .463 slugging percentage. Jeon has earned a free base 642 times while fanning on 1,149 plate appearances. He has tallied 1,100 runs in addition to having earned 1,034 RBIs. His on-base % is .364 and he has earned a has a OPS in his career of .827.

The Lotte Giants have turned 85 double plays and have a fielding percentage of .979 (6th in KBO). The Giants have accrued 991 assists, 81 errors and have earned a total of 2,795 putouts during this campaign. Out of their 99 attempts at getting a steal, they have had success 85 times and been caught 14 times (14.1% caught stealing percentage).

The Giants have a team WHIP of 1.448 in addition to having a FIP of 4.95 as a team on the campaign. Their strikeout to walk ratio comes in at 2.21 (865 strikeouts against 392 bases on balls). They sit at 3rd in KBO as a staff in total hits surrendered with 956. They have conceded 86 HR's and they concede 4.95 runs per 9 innings (8th in the league). The Lotte pitching staff have conceded 512 runs this year while having an ERA of 4.50 (466 earned runs yielded).

So what is Tonights Parlay prediction?

Parlay's Pundit's Pick: Take Lotte (-210) and under the total runs

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