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October 11, 2023

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Betting on the Los Angeles Dodgers

Betting on the Los Angeles Dodgers has become quite popular since certain US states started offering legal sports betting. This well-known MLB franchise has come to be one of the league’s mainstays for quite some time.

Los Angeles Dodgers Overview

Like many professional West Coast teams, the Dodgers’ team roots can be traced back east. Going all the way back to 1884, the Brooklyn Atlantics were one of Major League Baseball’s original teams.

In 1932, they became the Brooklyn Dodgers and the rest is history. While the Yankees were New York’s most famous baseball team, the Dodgers earned their place in the hearts of Brooklyn fans.

Leading the MLB’s western expansion, the Dodgers found a permanent home in Los Angeles ahead of the 1958 season. After winning the 1955 World Series in Brooklyn, they gained prominence on the West Coast by winning the 1959, 1963 and 1965 World Series title.

Pitchers such as Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax led the way with Walter Alston in place as the Dodgers’ manager. Los Angeles added to its popularity with additional MLB championship runs in 1982 behind pitcher Fernando Valenzuela and in 1988 behind staff ace Orel Hershiser.

More recently, the Dodgers added another World Series title in 2020 by beating the American League’s Tampa Bay Rays in six games of a best-of-seven format.

The list of prominent players to ever wear Dodgers’ Blue reads like a who's who of current and future MLB Hall of Famers. The overall popularity of this franchise is continually bolstered by its unparalleled success on the baseball field.

Playing in the NL West, the biggest team rivalry would be against the San Francisco Giants. Things have also heated up recently against the San Diego Padres as rivals in Southern California.

As relatively new MLB expansion teams in the 1990’s, you could add the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Colorado Rockies to that list. With the Dodgers’ East Coast roots, an interleague series against the Yankees would draw quite a bit of attention from MLB bettors in legal sports betting states.

Betting the Dodgers as home favorites is always going to be a popular wager. If Los Angeles was listed at -145 odds on the MLB money line, bettors would have to risk losing $145 just to win $100 as the favorite at home.

Betting on the Los Angeles Dodgers in California

Sports betting in any form remains illegal in the state of California. A change in the current laws may be in the works through a planned voter referendum on the issue. This could take place as early as November of 2022.

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In the meantime, Los Angeles’ fans in Colorado could bet on their favorite team the next time the Dodgers face the Rockies in a three-game series at Coors Field. Betting on sports online in CA remains illegal.