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THBShohei Ohtani's 2025 World Series Game 3 Game-Tying Home Run Ball (Reached Base 9 Times in 18 Inn.) – 1st WS "Shoh-Bomb" Offered! – SIA Photomatched
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TimedDec 10, 2025 - Dec 18, 2025
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On October 27, 2025, the Los Angeles Dodgers hosted the Toronto Blue Jays at Chavez Ravine for Game 3 of the World Series. With the series tied 1-1, baseball fans around the globe were hyped for this pivotal contest, and those fortunate enough to attend were treated to one of the greatest and longest postseason games ever played. For Shohei Ohtani, it was another awe-inspiring performance – this time on the biggest stage – as he put together an offensive stat line that’s hard to fathom. In a 6-5 Dodgers victory, the Japanese Goliath went 4-for-4 with two home runs, two doubles, three runs, three RBI and five walks, reaching base in all nine plate appearances.
SCP Auctions is honored to present the monumental home run ball off Ohtani’s bat that tied Game 3 late and allowed the Dodgers to eventually win an epic back-and-forth, 18-inning thriller. The lucky catcher of this ball in the bleachers, Dodgers fan David Aguilar, has decided to auction it as the monetary value of such a significant piece of baseball history is simply too much to pass up.
Max Scherzer took the hill for the Blue Jays in Game 3, and the grizzly veteran bound for Cooperstown got off to a shaky start, allowing solo homers to Teoscar Hernández in the second inning and Ohtani in the bottom of the third. Shohei turned on an inside pitch, lacing it down the right field line into the visitor’s bullpen to make it 2-0, Dodgers. A three-run shot by Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk in the top of the fourth gave Toronto a 3-2 lead. The Jays went ahead 4-2 and chased Dodgers starter Tyler Glasnow in the top of the fifth. But L.A. tied it up in the bottom half thanks to an Ohtani RBI double and an RBI single by Freddie Freeman. Toronto regained the lead, 5-4, in the top of the seventh on a Bo Bichette RBI single that scored Vladimir Guerrero Jr. all the way from first. Again, L.A. wasted no time in responding. It was “Sho-Time” in the bottom of the seventh.
With one out and nobody on, Ohtani stepped to the plate, having gone 3-for-3 with a homer and two doubles. On the first pitch from Blue Jays reliever Seranthony Domínguez, a 98-mph center-cut fastball, Shohei blasted it 401-feet into the left-center field bleachers for a clutch game-tying home run. He was seeing it like a beach ball, yet the Blue Jays still pitched to him.
The game went into extra innings tied 5-5. Toronto almost took the lead in the tenth on a double down the right field line, but the runner was thrown out at home on a perfect Dodgers relay. In the twelfth, Dodger legend Clayton Kershaw came on in relief and got out of a stressful bases loaded situation. The stalemate continued through the 13th inning as the Blue Jays escaped a bases loaded jam of their own. It stayed knotted at five all the way into the 18th inning, tying the longest World Series game ever played.
Meanwhile, Ohtani kept getting walked. Toronto wanted no part of him anymore. In his final five plate appearances, Jays pitchers walked Shohei five straight times – four intentionally. Finally, leading off the bottom of the 18th, his future Hall of Fame teammate Freddie Freeman launched a walk-off solo shot over the center-field wall to win it, 6-5, for the Dodgers – reminiscent of Game 1 in the 2024 World Series when Freeman walked it off with a grand slam (SCP sold that ball for $1.56 million). The 18-inning marathon lasted six hours and 39 minutes and ended just before midnight PST, so for the Blue Jays and their fans in Toronto staying up until 3 AM, the loss was devastating. Adding more Déjà vu for Dodgers fans was the eerie fact that the only other Fall Classic game to go 18 innings ended with a Max Muncy walk-off homer in Game 3 of the 2018 World Series (also at Chavez Ravine), giving L.A. a 3-2 win over the Red Sox.
Game 3 in 2025 set several World Series records.
• 19 pitchers were used (10 Dodgers; 9 Blue Jays), throwing a combined 609 pitches.
• 37 runners were left on base (19 Blue Jays; 18 Dodgers).
• Six outs were recorded on the base paths.
• 18 innings tied it with 2018 World Series Game 3 as the longest in terms of innings.
Ohtani himself broke several individual World Series and postseason records with his impeccable night at the plate. No player had ever reached base nine times in a single postseason game. (Only three others have ever done it in a regular-season game, the last time being 1942.) His five walks and four intentional passes were also postseason records. Ten days earlier, Shohei had mesmerized us all with his 3-HR and 10-K game in the NLCS clincher. Just when we thought we’d seen it all, the “Greatest Shoh on Earth” literally went nine-for-nine at the dish with two bombs and twelve total bases.
To date, Ohtani has hit three World Series home runs – all in 2025 – and this is the first one to be offered publicly. His first homer came in Toronto in Game 1, a two-run shot in an 11-4 blowout for the Blue Jays. The recipient of that ball has yet to come forward publicly. Ohtani’s next homer in the third inning of Game 3 landed in the visitor’s bullpen and was procured by Dodgers Stadium personnel. Therefore, this may be the only chance to acquire an Ohtani World Series home run ball, and it’s unquestionably the most significant of the three. The Dodgers went on to claim their second consecutive World Series title and Ohtani was named 2025 National League MVP shortly – his third straight MVP and fourth overall. The clutch 7th inning homer in Game 3 was his last “Shoh-bomb” from a storybook 2025 season, and it came in one of the most memorable World Series games in history.
The Official World Series (Manfred Jr.) baseball exhibits obvious game use with a visible scuff to the left of the commissioner stamp – the likely point of contact from Shohei’s bat. FOX’s national TV broadcast shows the ball ricocheting off a fan’s shoulder in the left-center field bleachers before our consignor snagged it with his left hand. We have freeze-framed the shot of Aguilar (blue Dodgers jersey and beige fedora) holding up the ball in his left hand with both arms raised in celebration.
A lifelong Dodgers supporter, David Aguilar attended Game 3 with his son who has season tickets and always brings his dad to the first game of every Dodgers playoff series. It has been a family tradition for generations as David’s father used to take him to Chavez Ravine as a kid. Moments after catching Ohtani’s home run ball, fans sitting in the bleachers nearby snapped countless photos of the proud father and son. The now famous duo did spontaneous interviews inside the ballpark and a few of these videos have gone viral on social media. Everybody wanted a piece of the joy these two men were feeling.
Mr. Aguilar has provided a notarized affidavit (letter of provenance) with a detailed account of events. He has also passed a polygraph test, the results of which are available upon request. Sports Investors Authentication has photo-matched the ball to the moment Aguilar caught the home run as well as images right after of him showing off the ball to fans. Full SIA paperwork is included.
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