Baseball
Baseball Betting
The road to the Fall Classic is underway and LiveScore Bet has a variety of live baseball betting markets throughout the 162-game MLB season and the showpiece World Series. Betting on baseball is as easy as picking a team to win a game with either a ‘money line’ or ‘outright’ bet. Check out other baseball odds on Yankees betting, the MLB Postseason playoffs, National and American League MVP and more.
LiveScore Bet makes baseball betting easy. Known as the national pastime of the United States, its history, roster of legendary players and captivating gameplay have meant it is one of America's most popular exports. Baseball, unlike other popular American sports, is not played against the clock. Instead, the pitcher's nous is pitted against the batter's precision and power in a game played over 9 innings.
Here at LiveScore Bet, we offer top odds across several baseball betting markets from leagues around the world from the MLB to the Japanese NPB.
What baseball events can you bet on?
The pinnacle of baseball is found in the MLB. The world's most well-attended league sees 30 teams competing from the U.S and Canada. The MLB contains two leagues within it, the American and National. Each league features 15 teams across 3 divisions: East, Central and West, with each team playing 162 games in a regular season. The winner of each division makes it through to the postseason a.k.a., the playoffs. The postseason culminates in the World Series, a seven-game winner-takes-all championship series.
Beyond the MLB, baseball is incredibly popular across Asia and Latin America. The Japanese NPB is the highest level of baseball found outside the MLB and is the second-most well-attended league of any sport in the world. Other popular leagues across Asia include the Korean Series and Taiwan CPBL. Many players also look to sharpen their skills in the Winter leagues mostly hosted in the Caribbean Leagues including the Dominican, Mexican Pacific, Venezuelan and Puerto Rican Winter Leagues.
How to bet on baseball
Baseball is perfect for betting due to the variety of betting markets available. As a win-lose sport, betting on the moneyline is popular but also see baseball's equivalent to handicap/spread bets, runline betting.
What is a moneyline bet?
A moneyline bet is the easiest form of baseball betting. It is simply your pick of the team to win the game outright. This is a bet on the match result, as in baseball, there is always a winner and a loser since an extra inning is played until one side has the lead after an equal number of innings.
What is runline betting?
Point spreads are a fundamental aspect of sports bettings, however, baseball doesn't have points, it has runs. Introducing runline betting. Just with any spread bet, a runline bet requires a team to win by a certain margin or lose by less than a certain margin. Betting on the Yankees -1.5 means the Yankees would need to win the game by more than 2 runs for the bet to land.
Betting on runs
Similar to other sports, baseball also offers plenty of opportunity for over/under or total betting. If the Orioles were taking on the Blue Jays, and the game finishes 5-4, and you bet over 8.5 total runs, your bet lands as 9 runs were scored in total. Over/under betting markets include the match total, within the first X number of innings or runs in a given inning. Other markets include predicting the correct score, who will score the first run, the team with the highest scoring inning and team total runs amongst others.
Outrights and Specials
An outright bet is a wager on who will win a given competition. For the MLB, for example, choose your pick for World Series winner, Conference winner, Division winner, and who's making the playoffs. See our specials too for odds on the best regular season record, most season wins and longest winning streak.
Baseball betting odds
LiveScore Bet offers a wide range of betting markets on baseball from leagues around the world. Our odds are constantly updated to ensure you're always getting the best deal.