MLB Opening Day 2019: Phillies Tickets And World Series Odds

Spring is reborn with the Phillies championship hopes as MLB Opening Day 2019 kicks off this Thursday. Aaron Nola will join fellow aces Jacob deGrom, Max Scherzer, Blake Snell, Corey Kluber, and Chris Sale as the game's most elite aces take the mound to kick off the season.

The Phillies will host their arch-rivals and NL East nemesis, the defending division champion Atlanta Braves, at Citizens Bank Park at 3:05 p.m. Tickets to the game can be bought today. Enter the promo code “PatchTickets10” to get 10 percent off.

Heading into the 2019 season, oddsmakers are quite bullish on the Phillies chances to win the World Series. According to Oddschecker.com, the Phillies have a 7.7 percent chance to come home with a championship.

Those are the fifth best odds in all of baseball, trailing only established elite teams like the revamped New York Yankees, the defending champion Boston Red Sox and the 2017 champion Houston Astros. Bookies give the Yankees a 14.3 percent chance to win the title. The Red Sox and Astros each have a 13.3 percent chance to win the World Series.

The Dodgers are the only NL team with better odds than the Phillies, with an 11.1 percent chance.

According to OddsShark, The Phillies’ World Series odds jumped from 7.69 percent before signing Harper all the way to 10.5 percent after he joined the team.

Confused? Basically, all you need to know is the teams with the higher percentages are more likely to win it all than the teams with the lower percentages. That means a successful $100 bet on the Yankees to win it all would result in a payout of $700. The payout for the Red Sox and Astros would be $750.

Here are the implied World Series odds for every team, according to Oddschecker:

1. Yankees, 14.3 percent
2. Red Sox, 13.3 percent
3. Astros, 13.3 percent
4. Dodgers, 11.1 percent
5. Phillies, 7.7 percent
6. Cubs, 6.7 percent
7. Indians, 6.7 percent
8. Cardinals, 5.3 percent
9. Brewers, 5.3 percent
10. Nationals, 5 percent
11. Braves, 4.8 percent
12. Mets, 4 percent
13. Rockies, 3.4 percent
14. Athletics, 2.9 percent
15. Rays, 2 percent
16. Angels, 2 percent
17. Twins, 2 percent
18. Pirates, 1.5 percent
19. Diamondbacks, 1.4 percent
20. Padres, 1.4 percent
21. Mariners, 1.2 percent
22. Blue Jays, 1.2 percent
23. White Sox, 1 percent
24. Reds, 1 percent
25. Giants, 1 percent
26. Rangers, 0.5 percent
27. Tigers, 0.5 percent
28. Royals, 0.4 percent
29. Marlins, 0.4 percent
30. Orioles, 0.2 percent

The Orioles, Marlins, Royals, Tigers and Rangers represent the bottomfeeders this year. In fact, the odds are so low for the Orioles (0.2 percent) to win it all that you could turn $100 into a new BMW or Cadillac. This means that a successful $100 bet on the Orioles would result in the gambler earning a massive payout of just over $40,000.

Patch national staffer Dan Hampton contributed to this report.

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