© Neville E. Guard | 2019 Jul 23
Two weeks ago, the San Francisco Giants were 41-48, in last place in the NL West and had 500-1 odds to win the World Series. Now on July 24, the Giants are two games over .500, in second place in the NL West and have 40-1 odds to win the World Series according the Cesars Palace in Las Vegas.
Giants are now 40-1 to win the World Series…
They were available at 500-1 from June 10th to July 16th, per @CaesarsPalace pic.twitter.com/jpY890eSjx
— B/R Betting (@br_betting) July 24, 2019
The Giants turnaround has been nothing short of incredible. What was once thought to be the worst team in the National League has gone 30-16 since the start of June. With the trade deadline just a week away, it now looks like the club may hold onto their assets, and go all in on another improbable World Series run.
“We haven’t seen too many stranger things than this, ’cause I did two games in the booth from San Francisco against the Rockies and I thought ‘this is one of the worst offensive teams I’ve seen in years,’” Tim Kurkjian said on KNBR. “Now they score six runs a game. I thought there was zero chance Bumgarner would be with the Giants on July 31, now I think he is going to stay. But this is why baseball is so great is that it makes absolutely no sense sometimes, and that lineup they threw out there last night simply doesn’t match up against other lineups on good teams in the big leagues and yet that doesn’t matter at the moment because of the way that they’re playing, so this is absolutely bizarre.”