DAEJEON (Interstat) — The Kiwoom Heroes will visit the Hanwha Eagles on Monday at Daejeon Hanbat Baseball Stadium in Daejeon, South Korea. The forecast calls for 76 degrees at game time. Kiwoom enters with a 51-81-4 record, while Hanwha is 53-77-5. Hanwha will be the home team.

An Woo-jin is a player to watch for Kiwoom. In his most recent start, he earned a win against Hanwha, allowing three earned runs on five hits with two walks and 10 strikeouts over five innings. Before that, he threw six scoreless innings with two hits, three walks and seven strikeouts in a win at KT. He also pitched six scoreless innings with five hits, two walks and four strikeouts in a loss at Kia. Over those three starts, An has 21 strikeouts in 17 innings, with three earned runs allowed and seven walks.

Park Jung-hyun is a player to watch for Hanwha. He went 2 for 4 with a home run and three RBIs in the most recent meeting with Kiwoom. He also went 2 for 4 with a home run and two RBIs in a win at Lotte. He had two hits and two RBIs against Lotte. In other recent games, he went 1 for 4 against Kiwoom, 1 for 4 at Samsung, 0 for 3 at NC and 0 for 4 at NC.

Kiwoom has won eight of the last 10 meetings, with one tie. The teams also tied 9-9 earlier in the season. The teams last played in a 9-3 Kiwoom victory. In that game, An pitched five innings, Hiura Keston went 4 for 4 with a home run and an RBI, and Matthew Davidson went 2 for 4 with a home run and an RBI. Bruce Zimmerman started for Hanwha, while Park went 2 for 4 with a home run and three RBIs and Joo Hyun-sang threw two scoreless innings.

Kiwoom recently beat Hanwha 7-2 and NC 8-4 and KT 10-1, but lost to Lotte 8-6 and 4-2. Hanwha recently lost to Kiwoom 7-2 and to Samsung by scores of 3-2, 6-2 and 10-5. Hanwha beat Lotte 6-2 and lost to NC 3-2 and 8-7 and to Lotte 9-5 and 7-0. Hanwha also lost to LG 4-3. Kiwoom also lost 5-3 to Doosan and 10-5 at Shinsegae Landers.

Kiwoom is next scheduled to host KT Wiz, then Hanwha. Hanwha is next scheduled to host Shinsegae Landers, then visit Kiwoom, then host NC Dinos.

Interstat’s game simulator projects a final score of Kiwoom 7, Hanwha 3. Interstat’s ELO system gives Hanwha a 63.7 percent probability to win.