World Series Game 7 home run balls expected to exceed $1 million at auction
- - World Series Game 7 home run balls expected to exceed $1 million at auction
Greg RosensteinNovember 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Will Smith's solo home run in the 1th inning in Game 7 of the 2025 World Series helped the franchise win back-to-back championships. (Mark Blinch / Getty Images)
The 2025 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays will be remembered as one of the most exciting championship rounds in baseball history.
And if you’re lucky, and wealthy, that history could be taken home.
For the next 15 days, SCP Auctions will offer up some of the most prized pieces of sports memorabilia for bidding. This includes Shohei Ohtani’s second home run (of three) from Game 4 of the National League Championship Series, Miguel Rojas’ home run in the top of the ninth that sent Game 7 of the World Series to extra innings, and Will Smith’s home run that eventually won Los Angeles the title.
The latter two balls — caught by a father and a son, miraculously, two innings apart — are both expected to command a major financial sum. According to Michael Keys, the COO of SCP Auctions, market data suggests Rojas’ ball will be sold in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Smith’s ball will garner even more.
“Will Smith’s go-ahead, I believe, is a seven-figure ball,” he told NBC News.
Freddie Freeman’s grand slam walk-off ball that won Game 1 of the 2024 World Series sold for $1.56 million last December. Because Smith’s home run was in a do-or-die Game 7 and essentially secured the Dodgers the World Series, Keys envisions it surpassing Freeman’s total.
“I don’t hesitate to say that Will Smith’s (ball) has got to be at least seven figures based on the Freeman Game 1 walk-off last year that didn’t even seal the victory for the series,” he said. “It did turn the tide for the series. That was the momentum that they needed to continue to roll against the Yankees. But this Game 7 was incredible. It’s a moment in history.”
Dodgers catcher Will Smith's series-winning home run ball in the 11th inning of Game 7 of the World Series against the Toronto Blue Jays. (SCP Auctions)
While Ohtani’s home run ball from the NLCS did not carry the same magnitude as Smith’s or Rojas’ in terms of team success, it likely will fetch a similar number. That’s because it came in a game that MLB.com considered “the most impressive performance we have ever seen in the postseason — and perhaps in any game.”
On that October 17 night against the Milwaukee Brewers, Ohtani dominated both on the mound and in the batter's box. He threw six innings, allowing just two hits and no earned runs while striking out 10. He also launched three home runs, including a 469-foot bomb into the center field stands.
That second home run ball is now up for auction and will be a grail for any collector.
“We have that estimated at $1-2 million or more,” Keys said.
Other items being auctioned off include Lou Gehrig’s 1937 World Series jersey and Mickey Mantle rookie cards.
Miguel Rojas hits a home run to tie Game 7 of the World Series in the ninth inning. (Gregory Shamus / Getty Images)
In addition to their traditional authentication process, SCP requires the owners of the items to write a notarized affidavit and undergo a polygraph test.
Most bidding, Keys said, won’t come until the final day.
“I would say that in auction time, we’re in the first inning of an extra inning ball game right now,” he said. “A majority of the bidding activity — probably 90 plus percent of the bidding activity — is going to come in the last 48 or 24 hours."
Source: “AOL Sports”
