Overview
- Thursday afternoon bids reached about $70,000 for Miguel Rojas’ tying ninth‑inning ball and $130,000 for Will Smith’s 11th‑inning winner, according to SCP Auctions.
- Bidding is scheduled to close Saturday at 10:30 p.m. ET, with the balls offered as separate lots in SCP’s fall sale.
- Blue Jays fan John Bains says he caught Rojas’ homer and kept it after tossing a spare ball back onto the field, while his son Matthew says he did the same with Smith’s ball.
- SCP says both Bains provided notarized affidavits and passed polygraph tests; the balls do not carry MLB authentication.
- The auction also features a Shohei Ohtani NLCS home run ball that earlier this week had attracted a $200,000 bid on the site.