Freddie Freeman cemented his legacy in Los Angeles Dodgers historical past when he launched a walk-off grand slam into the best discipline pavilion, securing a Sport 1 World Sequence victory over the New York Yankees.
The ball, which landed within the arms of 10-year-old Zachary Ruderman, additionally made historical past promoting for $1.56 million – together with purchaser’s premium – at SCP Auctions late Saturday evening.
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Freeman’s house run ball now ranks because the third-most costly baseball ever bought, trailing behind Shohei Ohtani’s $4.392 million 50/50 house run ball and Mark McGwire’s seventieth house run ball, which fetched round $3 million in 1999.
Freeman’s ball surpassed Aaron Choose’s 62nd house run ball, which went for $1.5 million in 2022.
“We’re so honored to have dealt with some of the vital artifacts in World Sequence historical past, courting again to 1903,” SCP Auctions president David Kohler mentioned in an announcement.
The Ruderman household mentioned in an announcement by way of SCP Auctions they hoped the baseball would sooner or later be displayed in Dodger Stadium.
Ruderman was stunned with tickets to the sport on Oct. 25. When he awoke that morning, he thought he was going to the orthodontist to get his braces off. As a substitute, his dad stunned him they usually ventured to Chavez Ravine.
The whole second was caught on digicam and slightly boy who was already an enormous Freeman fan walked away clutching a ball that was price greater than $1 million.
Los Angeles went on to win the World Sequence in 5 video games. Freeman was named the Most Worthwhile Participant regardless of battling a plethora of accidents that may have stored others on the bench.
Whereas the Ruderman household remembers the second clearly, Freeman admitted to blacking out rounding the bases.
“I don’t actually keep in mind it, I kinda blacked out,” Freeman mentioned. “You’re attempting to recollect the sensation and I can’t. I normally look away to only drive the ball to left heart. And I used to be like, ‘You already know what? I’m going to modify to this up and I’m going to look nearer to me.’ So I used to be wanting heater in, to love up and in, and I guessed proper. He threw it proper within the spot I used to be wanting. I knew it was gone proper after I hit it. And I don’t know why I went Statue of Liberty (pose) or something like that. I don’t pimp house runs. I don’t do this. I normally simply hit ’em and run across the bases. However I imply, walk-off grand slam within the World Sequence, proper?”
That is the second World Sequence baseball that was auctioned within the final week. Aaron Choose’s dropped fly ball in World Sequence Sport 5 was auctioned for charity, which led to a New York radio host calling the Dodgers “classless pigs.”
Learn extra: Yankees Radio Host Calls Dodgers ‘Classless Pigs’ for Auctioning Off Aaron Choose Dropped Ball
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