On Saturday, August 19 at 7:10 PM ET, Ji-Hwan Bae and the Pittsburgh Pirates will challenge starter Sonny Gray and the Minnesota Twins at Target Field, airing on BSN.
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Player Prop Odds for Bae
| Prop | O/U | Over Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 0.5 | -145 |
| Runs | 0.5 | -115 |
| RBI | 0.5 | +100 |
| Strikeouts | 0.5 | -145 |
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Stats and Trends for the Minnesota Twins
- Gray (6-5) will take to the mound for the Twins and make his 25th start of the season.
- The right-hander’s last appearance was on Sunday, when he threw six scoreless innings against the Philadelphia Phillies while allowing two hits.
- Among qualified pitchers this campaign, the 33-year-old’s 2.97 ERA ranks third, 1.210 WHIP ranks 29th, and 9.2 K/9 ranks 25th.
- The Twins have a 9.7 K/9 this season as a staff, which is best in baseball.
- The Twins have the eighth-best ERA (3.89) in the majors this season.
- Twins pitchers have a 1.202 WHIP this season, third-best in the majors.
- The Twins have given up 144 home runs so far this season (the 15th-ranked total in MLB play).
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Ji-Hwan Bae Stats vs. the Twins
| Date | Opp. SP | H/AB | XBH | HR | RBI | R | K/BB | SB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/18/2023 | Pablo Lopez | 2-for-4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/1 | 0 |
Bae Stats and Trends
- Bae has reached base with a base hit 37 times this season in 70 games played (52.9%), including multiple knocks in 18.6% of them (13 times).
- This season, he has gone yard in two of the 70 games, leaving the ballpark in 0.8% of his plate appearances.
- He has scored at least one run 26 times this year in 70 games played (37.1%), including eight games with more than one run (11.4%).
- In 12 of 70 games this season (17.1%), Bae has driven in a run, and in six of those games (8.6%) he knocked in multiple runs. He has also accounted for three or more of his team’s runs in one contest.
- In 45 of 70 games this year (64.3%), he has been set down on strikes. Plus, 13 of those games (18.6%) included a performance that resulted in more than one punchout.
| Home | Away | |
|---|---|---|
| 32 | GP | 38 |
| 15 (46.9%) | Games w/1+ Hit | 22 (57.9%) |
| 6 (18.8%) | Games w/2+ Hits | 7 (18.4%) |
| 11 (34.4%) | Games w/1+ Run | 15 (39.5%) |
| 1 (3.1%) | Games w/1+ HR | 1 (2.6%) |
| 8 (25.0%) | Games w/1+ RBI | 4 (10.5%) |
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