Ball for Ohtani's historic 50th home run - yours for $4.5m

The shot that Shohei Ohtani deed to declare his historical 50th location tally of nan existent MLB play has been put up for auction.

The Los Angeles Dodgers superstar, 30, made shot history past Thursday by becoming nan first subordinate to deed 50 location runs and bargain 50 bases successful a season.

The starting bid for nan shot is $500,000 (£375,000) but location is an option to acquisition it privately, external for $4.5m (£3.4m).

That would group a caller grounds for a baseball, which is presently $3.05m (£1.9m) - for Mark McGwire's 70th location tally shot of 1998.

Not only did Japan's Ohtani scope nan milestone during nan Dodgers' 20-4 triumph complete nan Miami Marlins, he did truthful during arguably nan best batting capacity ever., external

The American League's two-time Most Valuable Player, Ohtani had six hits from six at-bats, driving successful 10 runs including 3 homers. He besides had 2 stolen bases, taking his play tally to 51 pinch 51 homers.

Ohtani's 50th homer - a squad grounds - came successful nan seventh innings and nan instrumentality who caught it reportedly turned down nan Dodgers' connection to acquisition nan shot for $300,000 (£225,000).

The instrumentality reached retired to Goldin auction location nan pursuing time and has opted to stay anonymous.

"This was 1 of nan easiest [consignments] ever," Goldin's laminitis and main executive Ken Goldin told ESPN.

"Literally Friday we heard from nan guy, he contacted Goldin connected his ain done societal media, flew a information defender down to Miami connected Monday pinch a typical from Goldin, met him, flew backmost Monday."

Ohtani has since extended his people to 53 location runs and 55 stolen bases, pinch 5 games of nan regular play remaining.

He will past play successful nan MLB play-offs for nan first clip arsenic nan Dodgers person already secured a spot successful nan post-season.