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When the Giants were a season-high 4½ games backmost successful the National League West connected April 17, they were 60-1 agelong shots astatine BetMGM to triumph the division.
Las Vegas sportsbooks were rooting each play for the heavily-favored Dodgers to overtake their rivals. But San Francisco ne'er faltered and dealt a large stroke to the books Sunday erstwhile it yet clinched the part rubric connected the last time of the season.
“The Giants winning the part was painful,” Caesars Sportsbook vice president of trading Craig Mucklow said. “That was six figures.”
BetMGM mislaid aggregate six figures connected San Francisco, which won a franchise-record 107 games to borderline Los Angeles (106-56) by 1 crippled and soar implicit its play triumph full of 74½ by a whopping 32½ games.
“They weren’t expected to bash well,” MGM Resorts manager of trading Jeff Stoneback said. “A batch of times radical volition stake connected teams erstwhile they person a bully commencement and the teams volition fade. But the Giants ne'er faded.”
San Francisco volition play the victor of Wednesday’s NL wild-card crippled betwixt the Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals connected Friday successful the opener of the NL Division Series.
The Giants are the 6-1 2nd prime astatine the Westgate SuperBook down 3-1 favourite LA to triumph the World Series aft they opened astatine 300-1.
The SuperBook took a $1,000 wager to triumph $300,000 (300-1) and a $1,000 wager to triumph $200,000 (200-1) connected San Francisco to triumph it all.
“This was truthful unexpected,” SuperBook manager Randy Blum said. “If the Giants triumph the pennant and the World Series, we’d beryllium looking astatine losing 7 figures.”
Going, going, gone
Caesars besides mislaid a bundle connected its MLB location tally person prop erstwhile Blue Jays prima Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homered successful his last 2 games to necktie Royals catcher Salvador Perez for the large league pb with 48 each.
“Guerrero tying for the location tally pb was besides painful. He was a fashionable selection,” Mucklow said. “That was six figures easily. Not arsenic atrocious arsenic the Giants but it was up there.”
Per the modular regularisation astatine books successful lawsuit of a tie, bettors that had Guerrero and/or Perez to pb the majors successful homers volition triumph fractional of their wager. Perez was astatine 200-1 successful precocious August, erstwhile helium was 7 homers down Angels prima Shohei Ohtani.
Blum said the SuperBook didn’t instrumentality immoderate bets connected Perez until helium posted updated location tally rubric likelihood connected Sept. 22, erstwhile Guerrero was an even-money favourite and Perez was +175.
Yankees-Red Sox
A Caesars bettor placed a $115,000 wager to triumph $100,000 connected the Yankees implicit the Red Sox successful Tuesday’s American League wild-card crippled astatine Fenway Park.
Gerritt Cole volition commencement for New York against Boston’s Nathan Eovaldi.
The victor volition look the Tampa Bay Rays successful the ALDS, which starts Thursday.
The Houston Astros are -130 ALDS bid favorites implicit the Chicago White Sox (+110), and the Milwaukee Brewers are -155 NLDS bid favorites implicit the Atlanta Braves (+135).
Contact newsman Todd Dewey astatine tdewey@reviewjournal.com. Follow @tdewey33 connected Twitter.
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