It was quite the day for one Colorado-based bettor, who turned a $100 five-leg parlay on Monday into one heck of a profit.
Key Takeaways
- A Colorado bettor turned a $100 five-leg parlay into almost $30,000 on Monday at Caesars Sportsbook.
- Texas’ comeback win over the Diamondbacks punctuated the parlay, as the Rangers erased a 6-1 deficit and won in extras.
- The St. Louis Cardinals also helped the bettor by keeping their playoff hopes alive with a late rally.
Running a 5-game parlay of Texas Rangers live ML (+900), St. Louis Cardinals live ML ( +195), Los Angeles Dodgers-Los Angeles Angels over 8.5 (-105), San Diego Padres ML (+110), and Tampa Bay Rays-Athletics over 10 (-105), the bettor walked away with an astonishing $28,216.86, thanks in part to a juicy 20% profit boost.
The pair of live moneyline bets on the Rangers and Cardinals -- with the Redbirds facing the bettors' historically hapless hometown Colorado Rockies -- were the most incredible bets, with both cashing against long odds, particularly in the Rangers' case.
The West Coast games on the parlay, including over on The Freeway Series opener, Padres Moneyline, and the Rays-A’s over, all cashed with relative ease, with the 11 runs scored in both games featuring over/under bets, as well as a relatively painless 4-1 Padres win over the sputtering San Francisco Giants.
How the bets hit
The Rockies-Cardinals game, meanwhile, was a bit more interesting for the anonymous bettor, with his bet coming after the Rockies staked themselves out to a 2-1 lead against the Cardinals.
St. Louis, scratching and clawing for every win it can muster, sitting just three games out of playoff contention, rallied late as Brendan Donovan pulled a pinch-hit, one-out, two-run double down the right field line to give the Cardinals a lead they would not relinquish.
Even more astonishing, however, was the bettors' +900 Rangers live moneyline bet. In a 2023 World Series rematch with the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Rangers came out of the gate flat, as the normally stingy Nathan Eovaldi allowed a season-worst five earned runs and three homers to put the Rangers in an early hole in the third inning, down 5-0.
The Rangers did begin to make things interesting, however, and after going down 6-1 in the top of the 6th, the longshot Rangers began their improbable comeback.
After a Corey Seager RBI single made it 6-2 in the bottom half, Wyatt Langford snapped a month-long home run drought with a blistering 410-foot home run to left field to bring Texas to within one.
Then, in the bottom of the 9th, Rowdy Tellez led off the inning with an improbable solo home run, helping bring the game to extra innings.
Rowdy Tellez makes it a tie ballgame in the ninth! pic.twitter.com/2PtTAerZzK
— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) August 12, 2025
The Rangers followed that up with a clean top of the 10th inning, before Jake Burger walked off the D-Backs in the bottom half, completing the five-run comeback win.
