The second half of the Major League Baseball season is underway, and the Detroit Tigers are now the favorite to win the World Series.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 22% of Baseball Fans think the Detroit Tigers will redeem themselves from last year’s series loss, while nearly as many (18%) believe the St. Louis Cardinals will win the World Series. Eleven percent (11%) say the Boston Red Sox will win it all.

Seven percent (7%) of fans predict the Pittsburgh Pirates and Atlanta Braves will be this year’s champions, followed by the Oakland Athletics (6%). This year’s preseason favorite, the Los Angeles Dodgers, come in at four percent (4%). No other team reaches four percent (4%). (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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The national survey of 745 baseball fans was conducted on July 17-18, 2013 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.