GWANGJU (Interstat) — The KT Wiz will visit the Kia Tigers on Wednesday at Gwangju-Kia Champions Field in Gwangju, South Korea. KT is the visiting team, and Kia is the home team. The game-time forecast calls for 69°F.

KT enters with a 78-48-4 record. Kia is 70-57-2. A player to watch for KT is Kim Hyun-soo, who went 3 for 6 with a home run and four RBIs in the most recent meeting between the teams. He also had two hits and an RBI in consecutive games against Doosan, including a 2-for-2 performance with an RBI, and he went 2 for 3 with a home run and an RBI against LG. He went 1 for 3 against Doosan, 0 for 4 against Kiwoom, 1 for 3 against NC, 0 for 3 against NC, 1 for 4 at Shinsegae and 1 for 3 at Hanwha.

Kia’s player to watch is Kim Do-yeong. He went 3 for 5 with a home run and two RBIs in the most recent meeting. In that same game, Na Sung-bum went 2 for 4 with a home run and one RBI, and Harold Castro went 1 for 4 with a home run and two RBIs.

KT won the most recent meeting 8-5 in 10 innings. Before that, KT won 6-2. Kia had won the previous three meetings, 8-3, 6-3 and 4-3 in 10 innings. Earlier in the season, the teams traded wins and losses, with Kia taking an 11-5 decision, KT winning 10-9, Kia winning 11-3, KT winning 6-4 and Kia winning 6-0.

In KT’s most recent game, Oh Won-seok pitched two scoreless innings with one strikeout, and Park Yeong-hyun pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings with three strikeouts. KT’s other recent results include a 12-6 win at Doosan, a 10-1 loss to Kiwoom, a 3-2 win over NC, a 10-3 loss to NC, an 8-2 win at Shinsegae, a 9-8 win over Doosan, a 15-3 win over Doosan, a 12-1 loss to LG and a 4-4 tie at Hanwha.

Kia’s other recent results include a 5-1 win over LG, a 3-2 loss at Doosan, an 8-6 win at NC, a 5-1 win at NC, a 2-0 win over Kiwoom, a 6-3 loss at Shinsegae, a 9-2 win over Hanwha, a 6-2 loss at KT, a 5-2 win over Shinsegae and a 2-1 loss to NC in 11 innings.

KT’s upcoming schedule includes a rematch at Kia, a home series against Lotte, a trip to Kiwoom and a home game against Samsung. Kia will continue its series against KT, visit LG, host Samsung and visit Lotte.

Interstat’s game simulator projects a final score of KT Wiz 5, Kia Tigers 4. Interstat’s ELO system gives Kia a 50.1 percent probability to win.