Dodgers Merchandise Reaches Million-Dollar Figures at Auction
A quartet of Los Angeles Dodgers-related items fetched nearly $900,000 at an auction held by SCP Auctions in California over the weekend. Among the featured items were the home run balls that tied and won Game 7 of the 2025 World Series, caught by the father-son duo John and Matthew Bains.
The home run ball that tied game 7, hit by Miguel Rojas, sold for $156,000, while the game-winning home run ball of game 7, hit by Will Smith, reached $168,000. Both prices include the buyer’s premium.
Also, Shohei Ohtani’s home run in Game 4 of the 2025 National League Championship Series, which left Dodger Stadium, sold for $270,000, also including the premium.
In the same auction, a bat used by Ohtani during his 50/50 MVP season in 2024, with photographic matching from PSA Photo Match for five home runs in a 12-game streak from late August to early September, sold for $300,000, including premium.
After years of being underestimated in the collectibles world, Ohtani is finally having his moment. His first card sale for a million dollars occurred in March, when a collector paid $1.067 million for a one-of-one, autographed card on the card with the MLB logo, from Ohtani’s pants worn while hitting his 49th, 50th, and 51st home runs of the 2024 season. A collector paid $542,900 for another one-of-one numbered and signed Ohtani card earlier this month.
The property of Ohtani’s 50/50 home run ball, which made the Taiwanese investment firm UC Capital the most expensive baseball of all time at $4.39 million last October, is still being litigated, including a name correction for one of the original claimants, in the 11th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, with a hearing scheduled for January 13.
