Overview
- Will Smith’s World Series Game 7 winner sold for $168,000 and Miguel Rojas’ ninth-inning equalizer sold for $156,000 in SCP’s weekend auction.
- Shohei Ohtani’s NLCS Game 4 home run ball, retrieved after landing on the Dodger Stadium roof, sold for $270,000 in the same sale.
- SCP said its authentication relied on notarized affidavits, lie-detector exams, and eyewitness due diligence, and no rival claimants surfaced before the hammer.
- Blue Jays fans John and Matthew Bains caught both Game 7 balls in the front row at Rogers Centre and are receiving the proceeds from the sales.
- The Bainses appeared to throw balls back during the game but say they returned different baseballs, and their seven-figure hopes were shaped by SCP’s prior $1.56 million sale of Freddie Freeman’s 2024 World Series ball.