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The Royals and Mets were 28-1 long shots to win a championship back in March, but now one of them will certainly walk home with a title under their belt next week. They both enter this series dead even, according to the oddsmakers. Both Bovada and Oddshark have both teams at -110 to win the series. MyTopSportsBooks has the Royals as slight favorites at 11/10. Despite this, the Mets are actually a slight road favorite for tonight's Game One with Matt Harvey on the mound, with the Mets at -110 and the Royals at +100, according to Oddshark.
Here are the odds for World Series MVP, according to Bovada:
World Series MVP Odds | |
Daniel Murphy | 4/1 |
Yoenis Cespedes | 15/2 |
Alcides Escobar | 15/2 |
Eric Hosmer | 10/1 |
Curtis Granderson | 14/1 |
Matt Harvey | 14/1 |
Lorenzo Cain | 14/1 |
Ben Zobrist | 14/1 |
Kendrys Morales | 18/1 |
Jacob deGrom | 20/1 |
Jeurys Familia | 20/1 |
Mike Moustakas | 20/1 |
Noah Syndergaard | 20/1 |
David Wright | 20/1 |
Lucas Duda | 25/1 |
Johnny Cueto | 33/1 |
Travis D'Arnaud | 33/1 |
Wade Davis | 33/1 |
Salvador Perez | 33/1 |
Alex Rios | 33/1 |
Alex Gordon | 40/1 |
Wilmer Flores | 50/1 |
The over/under on Daniel Murphy home runs is 1.5. The over/under on Royals sacrifice bunts in the series is 3.5. The odds are 10/1 that either team sweeps, 9/2 that either team wins the series in seven.
According to MyTopSportsBooks, the odds that a home run breaks the fountain at Kauffman Stadium are 600/1. The odds that a home run breaks the home run apple at Citi Field is 1000/1. The odds a fan runs on the field during the series is 9/1. Those odds increase significantly to 100/1 if the fan is naked. And they go further still to 5000/1 if the naked fans arrives via parachute.