Lotte Giants vs Kiwoom Heroes Prediction, 4/12/2026 KBO Pick, Tips and Odds

Game: Lotte Giants vs Kiwoom Heroes

Date: Sunday, April 12, 2026

Location: Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea

TV: SPO-T

Odds/Point Spread: Lotte (-196) Kiwoom (+162)

Gocheok Sky Dome is the venue where Trenton Brooks and the Kiwoom Heroes (3-8, 10th in KBO) will take on the Lotte Giants (4-7, 9th in KBO) on Sunday, April 12, 2026. The Giants open this game at -196 while the Heroes are coming in at +162. The over/under opens at 8.5.

The Giants have tallied 17 doubles as a squad and have knocked 15 balls out of the stadium. Lotte has a slugging % of .442 and have been rung up 81 times, while getting the free base on 43 occasions. As a team, the Lotte Giants are notching 4.1 runs per game, which ranks them 10th in baseball. They have compiled 43 RBI's as well as 100 base knocks this year, and their average at the plate is at .270. They are sitting with 45 runs scored while holding a team on-base percentage of .344.

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Victor Reyes is a batter who should impact this game for Lotte. Reyes has accumulated a batting average of .299 in his time in baseball, with 798 runs scored and an OPS of .768. He has gone down on strikes 1,040 times and earned a walk on 411 occasions, contributing to a .346 OBP. For his career, Reyes has hit 99 baseballs over the fence while knocking in 783 runs. He is sitting with a career slugging percentage of .422 in addition to having tallied 2,405 bases. For his career, he stepped up to bat 6,226 times and has reached base with a base knock 1,703 times.

The Lotte Giants are sitting with 289 putouts this season, as well as 97 assists and 7 errors. Their fielding percentage sits at .982 which has them ranked 5th in the league and have a total of 6 double plays. The Giants have stolen 10 bases and have been caught 4 times, which shows us their caught stealing percentage is 28.6%.

The Giants have a team earned run average of 5.24 on the season (7th in KBO), and the staff has rung up 85 batters. Lotte has surrendered 97 hits (9.1 per 9 innings) and 56 earned runs. Their strikeout to walk ratio is 1.39 and the pitching staff holds a collective WHIP of 1.64. Giants pitchers have allowed 7 home runs and also 64 runs in total (4th in baseball).

The Kiwoom Heroes have compiled a team OBP of .339 and a batting average of .253 this year. They have struck out on 100 occasions (1st in baseball) and have recorded 97 base hits. Kiwoom has knocked in 4 HRs for the season as well as 44 RBIs. The Heroes hold a slugging percentage of .349 and they score 4.64 runs per game (9th in KBO). They have put up 23 two-baggers, while walking 45 times and putting up 51 runs.

Trenton Brooks is a batter who should be able to impact this game for Kiwoom. Over the course of the 3,857 at-bats in his baseball career, Brooks has hit .274 with 1,055 base knocks. He has hit the long ball 102 times, with 1,653 total bases and a .429 slugging percentage. Brooks has drawn a free base 549 times while striking out on 666 tries. He has scored 608 runs and also has 621 runs batted in. His on-base % is .368 and he has earned a career OPS of .797.

The Kiwoom Heroes have turned 10 double plays and hold a fielding percentage of .980 (6th in Korean baseball). Out of their 7 tries at stealing a base, they have had success 5 times and been caught 2 times (28.6% caught stealing rate). The Heroes have accrued 100 assists, 8 errors and have earned a total of 290 putouts for the season.

The Heroes hold a team WHIP of 1.746 and are the owners of a FIP of 6.33 as a staff for the year. Their K/BB ratio comes in at 1.70 (78 strikeouts against 46 bases on balls). They have a ranking of 1st in the league as a pitching staff in total hits conceded with 122. They have relinquished 12 homers and they allow 6.33 runs per 9 innings (9th in baseball). The Kiwoom pitching staff have conceded 68 runs over the course of the season while holding a team ERA of 5.71 (61 earned runs given up).

Who will win tonight's KBO game ATS?

Guy Bruhn's Pick: Take Kiwoom (+162)

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