Betting on Baseball Game
How Betting in Baseball Started? Many longtime sports bettors will say that baseball is the easiest of the major sports in which to show a profit, yet it’s one of the least wagered on sports around. In the book «Sports Betting: A Winner’s Handbook» Jerry Patterson states, «More big scores have been made betting on baseball than any other proposition.» The first thing prospective baseball bettors need to do is understand how the money line works. There are basically three ways to bet baseball — the money lines, the run lines, or the totals. The most common is the money line. Unlike other sports like football or basketball where you place bets against the spread (ATS), baseball lines are assigned odds depending mostly on whom the starting pitcher is. There are other factors that can affect a teams odds but the starting pitcher is always the primary factor. The Money Line No matter what sport you are betting, the sports books want equal money on both sides of the fence. They would like to
