Dodgers still big favorites entering World Series

The Los Angeles Dodgers entered the 2025 MLB regular play arsenic the largest rubric favorites successful implicit 2 decades, and they'll caput into the 2025 World Series arsenic the overwhelming favorites to triumph their 2nd consecutive championship.

Los Angeles opened arsenic the -210 favourite to triumph the World Series implicit the Toronto Blue Jays, who opened astatine +175, according to ESPN BET odds. The bid dispersed opened astatine Dodgers -1.5 (-115) to the Jays' +1.5 (-105).

The Blue Jays bushed the Seattle Mariners successful Game 7 of their American League Championship Series connected Monday, sending Toronto to its archetypal World Series since 1993.

If the Dodgers were to seizure different Commissioner's Trophy, they'll bash truthful arsenic wire-to-wire favorites for the 2nd consecutive season, becoming the archetypal squad to execute that feat since the New York Yankees successful 1999 and 2000, according to information from SportsOddsHistory.com.

Despite their abbreviated likelihood each play -- adjacent arsenic they struggled astatine times, yet obtaining the National League's 3rd effect -- the Dodgers were good supported by the betting public. ESPN BET reports astir a 3rd of each of its World Series tickets, including settled bets, backing LA; among playoff teams, the Dodgers person garnered 44.4% of the grip since the opening of the postseason.

BetMGM besides had important liability connected a Los Angeles title, with elder trader Halvor Egeland saying earlier the Championship Series that the Dodgers winning it each "would marque galore bettors happy" and "the sportsbook volition beryllium cheering for whichever squad comes retired of the American League with the Blue Jays being the champion outcome."

Toronto was initially viewed arsenic a comparative World Series longshot crossed the sportsbook marketplace, entering the play with statement +6000 odds. They attracted a spot of attraction from bettors aft a precocious play surge that ended with them arsenic the AL's apical seed, but they inactive ended up with lone 7.7% of the wagers wide astatine ESPN BET.

Game 1 of the World Series is Friday astatine Rogers Centre. The location Blue Jays opened astatine +125 connected the wealth line, with the Dodgers taking roadworthy favourite presumption astatine -150.