In a game filled with dramatic moments, the MLB World Series is responsible for many, if not most, of the biggest moments of all. From Buckner to Jeter, the World Series is often a tale of heroes and zeroes, but more than anything else it’s a huge event for sportsbook bettors, whether they’re baseball fans or not. 7 Games and 70 innings of baseball give Canadian sports gamblers thousands of chances to walk away a winner and share in the celebration. [+]

After 162 games, a division series, a league championship series (and possibly a wild card game), the American League and National League Champions are set to due battle in the World Series. Since it was first played in 1903, “the Fall Classic” has remained one of the great events on the sports calendar year after year. Each pitch is magnified, each at bat scrutinized, each call to bullpen analyzed, the World Series is the game played at its highest creating heroes and goats in equal measure. 

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MLB World Series Betting Lines

It’s all come down to this best-of-seven series and we help you keep track of all the wagering action by providing all the top World Series betting lines daily with the top recommended bookmakers.

MLB World Series Betting Trends

Will baseball’s championship series come down to the team with the hottest pitcher or the hottest bat? World Series betting runs the gamut from straight odds, lines and totals to If Bets and Live Betting per Inning wagers. In a sport where everything can come down to one pitch of the ball, buying points is always a popular option for MLB bettors, and when that one pitch means everything, it only makes World Series wagering all the more exciting. 

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    How To Bet On MLB World Series

    The American League, thanks to early dominance by the Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Athletics and several dynasties by the New York Yankees right up to present day, owns bragging rights over the National League having won 58% of the series to date. However, series wins past and present by teams like the St. Louis Cardinals and The San Francisco Giants including wins when they played in New York) show that the NL can win this thing on a regular basis as well. 

    Major League Baseball is unique in how it awards home field advantage for the Fall Classic. Instead of the better record or a neutral site, home field goes to the league that wins the all-star game. Since that rule came into being in 2003, the AL have had home field 10 times but have only won six championships.

    Home field or not, momentum has been a factor in who wins. In 2004 the Boston Red Sox exercised the “curse of the bambino” ending their 86 year World Series drought in a four game sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals. In the ALCS the BoSox came all the way back from a three game to none deficit to defeat the New York Yankees. Four years later Boston erased a three-games to one lead against the Cleveland Indians in the ALCS to follow that up with another sweep this time against the Colorado Rockies.

    The popular belief in sports is that defence wins championships and in baseball that is usually the case. From Jack Morris and his 10 inning complete game shutout in game seven in 1991, to Madison Bumgarner pitching out of the bullpen on two days rest to lift the Giants over the Royals in 2014 in the deciding game. While the Red Sox have won three championships in the 21st century, had the defence been a little better at the end of game 6 in 1986 there would have been another title in their history.

    Like a series-winning single just over the infield or a home run that just stays fair to win the game in extra innings, if your wagering in the World Series do your research because the margin for error this time of year is only a couple of inches.

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