SSG Landers vs Kiwoom Heroes Prediction, 8/1/2026 KBO Pick, Tips and Odds

Game: SSG Landers vs Kiwoom Heroes

Date: Saturday, August 1, 2026

Location: Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea

TV: SPO-2T

Odds/Point Spread: SSG (-152) Kiwoom (+126)

Gun Hee Kim and the Kiwoom Heroes (36-62, 10th in KBO) host the SSG Landers (37-58, 9th in KBO) at Gocheok Sky Dome on Saturday, August 1, 2026. The Heroes open this matchup at +126 while the Landers are priced at -152. The total has been set at 8.

The Landers have compiled 158 two-baggers as a team and have hit 109 balls out of the park. SSG has a slugging % of .412 and have been rung up 770 times, while being walked on 382 occasions. As a squad, the SSG Landers are recording 4.9 runs per game, which puts them at 7th in the league. They have 462 RBI's and 887 base knocks this season, and their team batting average is sitting at .260. They are sitting with 485 runs scored while having a team on-base percentage of .338.

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Jun Jae Jeong is one batter you are going to want to keep your eye on for SSG. Jeong has hit .271 for his baseball career, in addition to 148 runs scored and an OPS of .692. He has fanned 199 times and has walked on 107 occasions, contributing to a .351 OBP. In his career, Jeong has drilled 2 balls out of the park while driving in 77 runs. His slugging percentage sits at .341 in addition to earning 316 bases. For his career, he came to bat 1,082 times and has delivered a base hit 251 times.

The SSG Landers are sitting with 2,617 putouts thus far, in addition to 925 assists and 70 errors. Their fielding rate is holding steady at .981 which puts them in 6th in KBO and have earned 93 double plays. The Landers have stolen 59 bases and have been caught 19 times, which means their caught stealing percentage is 24.4%.

The Landers have a team earned run average of 5.63 on the year (10th in baseball), and their staff has rung up 748 hitters. Landers pitchers have yielded 106 home runs and also 599 total runs (1st in KBO). SSG has relinquished 943 base hits (9.7 per 9 innings) and also 546 earned runs. They have earned a strikeout to walk ratio of 1.64 and their pitching staff has earned a collective WHIP of 1.60.

The Kiwoom Heroes have a team on-base percentage of .320 and a team batting average of .243 this year. They have struck out on 853 instances (1st in baseball) and have totaled 823 hits. Kiwoom has accounted for 69 HRs for the year as well as 360 RBIs. The Heroes hold a slugging percentage of .349 and they have an average of 3.84 runs per game (10th in baseball). They hit 141 doubles, while getting a free base 332 times as well as scoring 384 runs.

Gun Hee Kim is a batter who can be a difference maker for Kiwoom. Over the course of the 874 at-bats in his baseball career, Kim has earned a batting average of .253 and has racked up 221 base hits. He has gone deep 19 times, in addition to having 332 total bases and also a .380 slugging %. Kim has recorded a walk 60 times while going down on strikes on 270 occasions. He has a total of 75 runs and has 106 RBIs. His OBP comes in at .299 and he has earned a career OPS of .679.

The Kiwoom Heroes have turned 83 double plays and hold a fielding percentage of .980 (8th in KBO). The Heroes have recorded 864 assists, 72 errors and have a tally of 2,645 putouts during this campaign. In their 92 tries at swiping a bag, they have had success 63 times and been caught 29 times (31.5% caught stealing percentage).

The Kiwoom pitching staff have surrendered 535 runs so far this year while having an ERA of 5.02 (492 earned runs yielded). They have given up 96 long balls and they allow 5.46 runs per 9 innings (8th in the league). The Heroes have a WHIP of 1.515 with a FIP of 5.46 as a staff for the season. Their K/BB ratio sits at 2.08 (757 strikeouts against 364 walks). They rank 1st in the league as a pitching staff in total hits relinquished with 971.

Who will win tonight's KBO game ATS?

Guy Bruhn's Pick: Take Kiwoom (+126)

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