The [Los Angeles Dodgers](/mlb/team/_/name/lad/los-angeles-dodgers) began the 2025 MLB regular season as the top favorites for the title in more than two decades, and are heading to the 2025 World Series as the clear favorites to win their second consecutive championship. Los Ángeles opened as the favorite at -210 to win the World Series against the [Toronto Blue Jays](/mlb/team/_/name/tor/toronto-blue-jays), who started at +175, according to ESPN BET odds. The series spread opened at Dodgers -1.5 (-115) against +1.5 (-105) for the Jays. The Blue Jays defeated the [Seattle Mariners](/mlb/team/_/name/sea/seattle-mariners) in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series on Monday, sending Toronto to its first World Series since 1993.
If the Dodgers manage to capture another Commissioner’s Trophy, they will do so as favorites from start to finish for the second consecutive season, becoming the first team to achieve that feat since the [New York Yankees](/mlb/team/_/name/nyy/new-york-yankees) in 1999 and 2000, according to data from SportsOddsHistory.com.
Despite their short odds throughout the season, even when they struggled at times, ultimately obtaining the third seed in the National League, the Dodgers had the support of the betting public. BetMGM also had a significant liability on a Los Angeles title, and operator Halvor Egeland said before the championship series that the Dodgers’ victory “would make many bettors happy” and “the sportsbook will cheer for the team that comes out of the American League, with the Blue Jays being the best outcome.” Toronto was initially viewed as a relative underdog for the World Series across the sports betting market, starting the season with consensus odds of +6000. It attracted some attention from bettors after a late-season surge that ended with the Blue Jays as the top seed in the American League, but still ended up with only 7.7% of the overall bets on ESPN BET. Game 1 of the World Series is on Friday at the Rogers Centre. The home Blue Jays opened at +125 on the money line, with the visiting Dodgers favored at -150.
