{"id":32455,"date":"2024-09-20T00:35:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T05:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32455"},"modified":"2024-09-20T00:36:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T05:36:12","slug":"shohei-ohtanis-50th-home-run-could-be-worth-more-than-500000-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32455","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani&#8217;s 50th home run could be worth more than $500,000, expert says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Shohei Ohtani inducted one lucky fan into the six-figure club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">That\u2019s how much money one expert said the person who caught&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/sports\/mlb\/dodgers-shohei-ohtani-first-mlb-player-50-50-club\/\">Ohtani\u2019s historic 50-50 club home run baseball<\/a>&nbsp;on Thursday could sell it for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cJust an incredible piece of history,\u201d Dillon Kohler of SCP Auctions told NBC Local. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be surprised if it\u2019s $300,000-plus, maybe even over half a million dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Los Angeles Dodgers star&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/sports\/shohei-ohtani-50-50-dodgers-rcna171927\">became the first player in Major League Baseball history<\/a>&nbsp;with 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a single season. And when he hit the historic home run just over the Dodgers bullpen at loanDepot Park in Miami, he sent a piece of baseball memorabilia and a lottery ticket into the leftfield stands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">That created a scrum, with one fan who will forever regret not bringing a glove to the game appearing to miss the ball by mere inches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The fan who ended up with the ball has not yet been publicly identified or announced an intention to sell.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cI would say strike while the iron\u2019s hot,\u201d Kohler said. \u201cI think that there\u2019s collectors and fans alike out there that would love to have this ball, have that in their possession for their collection. Now is the time to get that on the market as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ohtani entered the game needing two home runs and one stolen base to become the first member of the 50-50 club. He stole his 50th base of the season after hitting a single in the first inning and then homered in the sixth and seventh innings. Only five players in MLB history have recorded 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a single season, making the accomplishment unprecedented and the baseball lucrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Other valuable baseballs that made their way into the stands in recent years included Albert Pujols\u2019 700th career home run in 2022 that sold at auction for $360,000 and Aaron Judge\u2019s 62nd home run ball hit later that year that was auctioned for $1.5 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Kohler said auction is the recommended selling strategy for Ohtani\u2019s home run ball, which he said should have been hologrammed by MLB for authentication purposes prior to his at-bat before it reached the hands of its new wealthy owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThe sky\u2019s the limit for this baseball,\u201d Kohler said. \u201cIncredible piece of history. And we\u2019ll see where it goes. Hopefully one lucky fan has a new golden ticket here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/sports\/shohei-ohtani-home-run-ball-worth-rcna171937\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shohei Ohtani inducted one lucky fan into the six-figure club. That\u2019s how much money one expert said the person who caught&nbsp;Ohtani\u2019s historic 50-50 club home run baseball&nbsp;on Thursday could sell it for. \u201cJust an incredible piece of history,\u201d Dillon Kohler of SCP Auctions told NBC Local. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be surprised if it\u2019s $300,000-plus, maybe even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5782],"tags":[7255,23735,30538,10255],"class_list":["post-32455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ep","tag-baseball","tag-home-run","tag-lucky-fan","tag-shohei-ohtani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32457,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32455\/revisions\/32457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}