World Sequence
Sport 7 Dwelling Run Balls Hit Public sale
… Blasts From Dodgers Heroes Rojas, Will Smith
Revealed
Miguel Rojas and Will Smith hit two of essentially the most clutch World Sequence dwelling runs ever — powering the Dodgers to an exhilarating victory in further innings of Sport 7 — and now the historic baseballs are on the public sale block!
You will recall … the Dodgers, taking part in the deciding recreation on the street in Toronto, trailed the Blue Jays, 4-3, within the ninth inning. They had been two outs away from going dwelling W.S. losers.
Rojas, a 36-year-old veteran utility infielder who was slumping (he hadn’t recorded successful in weeks) and solely had seven homers on the season, got here to the plate with nobody on base, going through reliever Jeff Hoffman.
Hoffman hung a breaking ball on a full depend, and BOOM, Rojas put a cost into one, sending the ball flying over the left area fence on the Rogers Centre.
Tie recreation.
Within the backside of the ninth, the Jays practically gained the sport twice … however two unimaginable performs — by Rojas at second, and Andy Pages in middle — stored the ball recreation tied.
Quick ahead to the highest of the eleventh.
With two outs and a (ghost) runner on third … and the depend full, Smith hit some of the memorable dingers ever, placing the Dodgers up 5-4, the primary time they led all recreation.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the eventual World Sequence MVP, regardless of beginning the sport the evening earlier than, got here in to shut issues out … but it surely wasn’t straightforward.
Yamamoto battled his means out of a no-outs, bases-loaded jam to safe the Dodgers’ second straight World Sequence victory.
SCP Auctions managed to safe not only one, however each of the epic HR balls (Rojas even signed his)!
Maybe the craziest a part of the story … each baseballs, which landed simply toes aside, had been caught by the identical household, a father and his son!
Matt and John Bains each took polygraph assessments as a part of the authentication course of.
Bidding for the gadgets, that are being offered individually, ends on Saturday.
It is anticipated the Rojas ball will rake in someplace between $100-300k, whereas the successful bid on Smith will probably be within the $300-500k vary, with the potential to succeed in 7 figures.
