Large percentages of people think about football when asked if what major sports they usually do betting. Well, maybe there is a large population of bettors in this type of sports, however, it is baseball that offers the best chance to the bettors. The main reason is because baseball betting is easy to handicap. Baseball is fun and an enjoyable sport moreover if you place bet on it. You will surely love the game while watching it. So, if you are going to bet on baseball it is important that you know the three ways to do it. Since baseball is most often a low scoring game, sportsbooks do not use point spreads in baseball rather they commonly used the Money Line, Totals and Run Lines. Read the following article to give you an idea of what these are about.
Money Line
Probably, the Money line bet is the easiest type of placing bet on baseball. Though it may seem complex to the novice baseball, money line is simple to understand. In Money Line, the bettor only needs to pick who he/ she think will be the winner of the game. Money Line usually takes the form of a plus “+” or minus “-“sign followed by a three digit numbers. Here is an example:
New York Mets +120
St. Louis Cardinals -130
The favored team in baseball always has the minus sign in front of their Money Line while the underdog has the plus sign. To bet the underdog Mets in this game you will put up $100 to win $120. Play the favorite by betting $130 to make $100.
TOTALS
Betting totals in baseball is just like betting totals for other sports. Totals is also known as over/ under. Simply because you are betting the total number of runs in either over or under the bookmaker's predicted total. Betting totals includes the score in extra innings. Pitchers play a major part in run totals. So both scheduled starting pitchers need to play for the bet to go ahead. The sportsbook will refund your bet if either scheduled pitcher does not start. If you play the totals you really need to pay attention to the starting pitchers. The Majors are full of pitchers with different styles. There are some pitchers who give up runs, but still win games while other pitchers are stingy. Playing totals is very different from betting the Money Line.
Run Lines
Run lines betting are just like betting on the point spread in football, the only difference is that Run Lines are always the same in every game. Run line betting means that you get a much better price betting the favorite on the run line than you do on the money line. It also means you give up the big price on the underdog to get the extra run. When you bet on Run Line, it means you are betting that the favorite will win by two or more runs, or that the underdogs will either win the game or only lose by one run.
These are the things that you have to familiarize when placing a bet on baseball games.
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