Lotte at KT
SUWON (Interstat) — The Lotte Giants will visit the KT Wiz on Monday at Suwon Baseball Stadium in Suwon-si, South Korea. The forecast for game time calls for 77 degrees.
Lotte enters at 59-70-3. KT enters at 81-48-5. The Giants will send Na Gyun-an to the mound, while the Wiz will counter with Bae Je-seong. Na is scheduled to start. In the most recent meeting between the teams, he allowed two earned runs over five innings with eight hits, one walk and three strikeouts. He also struck out eight over six innings against Hanwha after allowing four earned runs, and he gave up three earned runs over six innings against Samsung with three walks and three strikeouts.
Bae is scheduled to start for KT. In the most recent meeting, he allowed one earned run over 5 1/3 innings with eight hits and two strikeouts. He worked six scoreless innings at Doosan with three hits, three walks and four strikeouts, and he threw five scoreless innings at Shinsegae with four hits, three walks and six strikeouts. He also allowed two earned runs over 4 1/3 innings at Hanwha with three hits, four walks and three strikeouts.
The clubs played to a 2-2 tie in 11 innings in their most recent meeting. KT won the previous two meetings 5-0 and 5-2. KT has gone 7-2-1 in the last 10 meetings between the teams. In the latest tie, Lotte got scoreless relief from Iimura Shota and Park Jeong-min. KT received 1 1/3 scoreless innings from Park Yeong-hyun and 1 1/3 scoreless innings from Kim Jeong-woon.
KT also beat Lotte 7-1, 16-3, 6-1, 5-4 and 4-2 earlier this season, while Lotte won 15-1 and 4-1. Lotte beat Kiwoom 8-6 and 4-2, then lost 6-2 to Hanwha. The Giants followed with wins over LG and Hanwha by 6-4, 9-5 and 7-0. KT beat Kia 7-5, 3-2 and 8-5 in 10 innings, then beat Doosan 12-6 and lost 10-1 to Kiwoom.
Lotte will host Doosan, Kia and LG, then visit Kia and Doosan. KT will visit Kiwoom, host Samsung and visit Samsung.
Interstat’s game simulator projects a final score of Lotte Giants 8, KT Wiz 7. Interstat’s ELO system gives KT a 61.6 percent probability to win.