Your Guide to Baseball Betting Online

Over/Under

Over/under, or totals, is a bet on whether a certain statistic for a game will be above or below a given number. In baseball betting online, the total combined score of a game is the most common, but baseball betting sites will also post them for markets like strikeout totals, hit totals, homerun totals, etc.

Spread Betting

Betting the baseball spread, or the run line as it is often called in baseball betting, is a wager on whether the favorite will win by a given number of runs, or if the underdog will lose by less than said number. The number can be found in the baseball lines for each game.

Parlay

Parlays are bets that are made up of multiple bets (called legs) combined into one. The more legs in your parlay, the higher your combined odds, and the more you stand to win. But all it takes is one losing leg for the entire parlay to lose.

Prop Bets

Prop bets, or proposition bets, are wagers placed on whether something happens or not during a game or season, but does not directly impact the outcome of a game.

For example, during the 2020 season many sportsbooks carried odds on how many Houston Astros players were going to get hit by pitches during the season. The bet was an over/under; many baseball betting sites set the total at 83.5 with -110 odds for both results.

Teasers & Pleasers

Teasers and pleasers are essentially another form of parlay betting but with only point spreads and over/under bets in the baseball lines.

With a teaser, you can adjust the point spreads for each game in your favor, but in exchange you will receive a lower payout than you would with a standard parlay.

As for pleasers, the baseball spread also moves for each game but in favor of the sportsbook, which means a higher payout – but they are much harder to win.

Futures

Future bets are bets placed on something other than the outcome of a single game that is going to be determined in the future. In baseball, this can be who will win each division, the winner of the AL or NL, and of course the winner of the World Series.

It is easy to find experts online offering baseball betting tips on futures.