Rain-shortened official game
“The game was called after five innings. Do my full-game bets count?”
MLB's rulebook decides what happens to the game; it says nothing about wagers. What happens to a bet is set by each sportsbook's own house rules, and they genuinely differ from book to book. Check the house rules of the book where the wager was placed. Many books settle moneylines on official games while treating totals and other markets differently when the full nine are not played — but the split is per-book and per-market.
Under MLB rules the game is official and final: five complete innings (or 4.5 with the home team ahead) make a regulation game. The score is final for the standings.
- Do moneyline wagers settle on an official-but-shortened game?
- Are totals and run lines voided when nine innings are not completed?
- How are inning-specific and player-prop markets treated in a shortened game?
Posterior is verifying each major book’s current house rules for this scenario and will publish per-book answers with sources and check dates. We do not state a book’s policy until we have read it.