"Otani's 50th home run ball has been entrusted to Goldin, an auction house." The minimum bid price is $500,000 (about 670 million won) and can be purchased without competition if $4.5 million (about 6 billion won).
Ohtani's 50th home run ball was the last puzzle to complete 50-50. On the 20th, Ohtani made six hits (three home runs) in six at-bats against the Miami Marlins with 10 RBIs, four runs and two steals. A new history was made in the seventh inning when he recorded 49 home runs and 51 steals. He hit Mike Baumann's fourth pitch to draw his 50th arch of the season. It was the moment when MLB's first 50-50 was completed.
According to The Athletic at the time, about 10 spectators around him threw themselves to pick up Ohtani's 50th home run ball. One of them became a lucky man and immediately left the stands under the guidance of club officials.
According to ESPN, the Dodgers offered 300,000 U.S. dollars in honorarium to the spectator to get the ball back, but the offer was rejected. The spectator who caught Ohtani's ball returned home and auctioned it off.
Attention is now focusing on how much Ohtani's 50th homerun, which became the first 50-50th in the MLB history, will be auctioned off. According to the Guinness Book of World Records website, the most expensive homerun ball ever sold at auction was Mark McGwire's 70th homerun in 1998. In January 1999, renowned cartoonist Todd McFarlane purchased the ball for 3,054,000 U.S. dollars including the commission. Aaron Judge's 62nd homerun for this season in 2022 was auctioned off for 1.5 million dollars. 토토사이트 추천