The Doosan Bears are set to start their weekday series against the SSG Landers team at 5:30 AM EST. The Doosan Bears vs SSG Landers 4/2/24 game is taking place at Incheon SSG Landers Field. The game will be aired on SPOTV if you are local in Korea.
Doosan Bears Preview
The Bears are heading to this game here with a loss in their last game. The loss came against the Kia Tigers team by a score of 9-3. Doosan heads to this game here sitting on a record of 4-4 on the year, but that is still respectable enough to be sitting in 6th place in the KBO.
Choi Won-joon is taking the mound for the Bears in this game here. Won-joon has already started against KT on the year and picked up a win, despite having a 9.00 ERA and a 2.00 WHIP. Won-joon did end up throwing a total of 5 innings and gave up 5 runs on 5 hits and 3 of those were homers. Control was an issue as well as Choi allowed 5 walks and only struck out 3 batters. As a team the Bears have posted a 4.69 ERA and have a 1.589 WHIP and the opponents are hitting rather well with a .274 average.
Hitting the ball for Doosan is coming in with a .273 team average and have managed to get 10 homers. Still, when it comes to running the base paths the Bears have picked up only 5 steals. The Bears have ended up with a .461 slugging and a .355 OBP. The hitting leader for the Bears is Kang Seung-ho who is hitting at a clip of .438 with 3 homers and 8 RBIs. Kang does lead in the homer department for the Bears, but shares the RBI leadership role with Henry Ramos.
SSG Landers Preview
SSG comes into the game here after getting a win in 11 innings in their last game. The win came by a score of 4-3 and was over the Samsung Lions. After getting the win the Landers team moved up to 4th place in the KBOP with a 5-3 record on the year.
SSG has been good on the pitching side of the ball as a team with a .231 opponent average and a 1.45 WHIP. As a team Landers has posted a 3.89 ERA on the season. Song Young-jin is the starter going to the mound for SSG in this game. He has already pitched against Hanwha on the year and picked up a no decision, but did end up with a 2.25 ERA and a 0.50 WHIP. The downside is he only managed to go 4 innings with a hit and a run allowed. Song did give up a walk and struck out 5 batters on the day.
SSG has been led in the hitting by Lee Ji Young who hits at a clip of .474 with 19 at bats. Choi Jeong has ended up getting the power lead for the Landers team with a total of 4 homers on the year. Choi is also the leader when it comes to bringing home the runners with 13 RBIs. As a team Landers has posted a .415 slugging and a .354 OBP. Landers has ended up getting a .265 average with 38 runs scored and 10 homers, but have picked up 9 steals.
Doosan Bears vs SSG Landers 4/2/24 Pick: SSG Landers
While I really like the over in this game with both of these teams having a lot of pop in their bat I really like the SSG Landers team in the game. The Landers team is putting the better starter on the mound, but also have shown to be able to battle back and have managed to play the small ball game better. Still, its a loose pick for the Landers team, but if you are looking for another pick the over 8.5 would be a good pick as well.
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