The fan who caught Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani's 176th career home run ball on April 21 has decided to auction the historic ball. It is expected to sell four around $200,000 with a starting bid of $50,000. The auctioning will begin Aug. 23.
Very rarely will a fortune come darting toward you at triple-digit speed. But, it happened to Jason Patino on April 21.
Patino caught the ball that marked Ohtani breaking the record for most career home runs for a Japanese-born MLB player. His milestone home run broke the former New York Yankees’ standout Hideki Matsui’s record. Ohtani's MLB home run total has since reached 206, shattering the previous mark. . The ball also has a handwritten “E” on it, but it has not been revealed who wrote it or what the significance behind it is.
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