The baseballs from two of the most dramatic home runs in World Series history sold for a combined $324,000 at SCP Auctions on Saturday night.
Will Smith's game-winning home run in the 11th inning of Game 7, which helped lift the Los Angeles Dodgers to their second consecutive title in 2025, went for $168,000.
Miguel Rojas' dramatic, game-tying homer in the top of the ninth inning, which helped set the stage for those extra-inning dramatics, fetched $156,000.
And the proceeds from those sales are going to the same family, as the balls were caught by a father-son duo in Toronto.
John Bains and his son Matthew came away with both those home run balls as they landed in the front row in left field at Rogers Centre.
The Blue Jays fan who caught Miguel Rojas’ game-tying home run kept the ball and threw a different one back on the field pic.twitter.com/VkQEQoRTTC
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John Bains, 61, of Brampton, Ontario, grabbed Rojas' game-tying homer as L.A. snatched victory away from Bains' beloved Blue Jays, who were just two outs away from their first championship since 1993.
Two innings later, Matthew Bains corralled Smith's game-winner after initially bobbling the historic relic.
After originally saying they might hold onto the valuable relics, John Bains said SCP officials reached out and convinced him the baseballs would best be handled at their auction house.
Bains said he was convinced to use the California-based auction house by its sale of the Freddie Freeman's walk-off grand slam ball ($1.56 million) from the 2024 World Series.
Both the father and son appeared to throw the baseballs back onto the field, but John Bains told cllct they actually threw back other baseballs they had brought into the ballpark. "It wasn't even a World Series ball," he said, laughing.
Bains told cllct he had some lofty prices in mind for the baseballs, and Saturday's sales failed to approach the range he anticipated.
"I'd take $1 million for the Rojas ball and $1.5 million for the Smith ball," he said. "They were both game-changing baseballs."
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