Throughout the course of Major League Baseball’s immense 4860-game schedule, bettors have the most wagering chances out of any top American sports league. However, even if you were to bet on every single one of the 50,000-plus MLB odds posted at Bovada, SportsBetting, or other top online sportsbooks over the course of the season, you would hardly be scratching the surface of the sheer quantity of bets available to the MLB gambling community. That’s because of MLB live betting, which increases the overall number of MLB season betting opportunities into the hundreds of thousands. For sportsbooks and bettors alike, MLB live betting is nothing short of a revolution. It is literally the “Live Ball Era” of online baseball betting.
Live betting, also called in-game betting, is a recent development made possible by ubiquitous Internet access and the real-time technology used at the top online sportsbooks. With traditional bets, you have to get your wagers in before the game actually starts. However, MLB live betting – as its name implies – allows you to bet on every aspect of the game as it’s being played.
With live in-game betting on MLB baseball, you can wager on literally everything. Will the next pitch be a ball or a strike? Will the next batter get a hit? And if he does, will it be a single, double, triple, or home run? Maybe the man on first will reach second safely, or maybe he won’t. Place your bets! You can wager on a pitcher’s single-inning pitch count, what type of pitch will be thrown next, whether the guy at the plate will hit a fly ball or grounder, and even whether an error will be committed on the next fair ball.
Any single play’s outcome can have odds under the live betting system, and each sportsbook will have their own bet types and trends that they like to stick to. (For this reason, it’s always wise to have memberships at multiple betting shops, so you can shop around for the live MLB betting experience that best suits your personal wagering style.)
Just keep this important bit of advice in mind: In-game MLB betting offers virtually nonstop action, and any odds posted on the boards will only be active for a few seconds at a time. In order to fully take advantage of live betting on MLB games, you need to watch the contests closely and have quick access to your sportsbook’s constantly-updating in-game wagering boards. Like one of Aroldis Chapman’s 105 MPH heaters, blink and you could miss it.