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The man who pulled Shohei Ohtani's 50th home run ball from a scrum in the stands of LoanDepot Park on Thursday afternoon is about to be a whole lot richer ... 'cause, according to auction experts, the keepsake is worth a small fortune.

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00:00Welcome back to TMZ Sports, Mike and Mojo.

00:07Mojo, we're going to stick with Shohei Ohtani.

00:10Now the question is, what's that ball worth?

00:14The 50th home run ball, right?

00:17Ohtani steps to the plate, Mojo.

00:18There's the ball, which is about to be worth a whole bunch of money after he puts this

00:23massive swing on it.

00:24Watch this, Mojo.

00:25The fans knew that this thing was going to be super valuable.

00:29It's a little bit hard to see, but there were a bunch of people who just were diving

00:34all over the place, Mojo, trying to get their hands on this incredibly valuable baseball.

00:42The question is, ooh, does he get it, Mojo?

00:48Oh, Mojo, you can look at that like a fancy mansion.

00:56That's how much this thing is worth.

00:57I had an opportunity to talk to our guy, David Kohler.

01:02David Kohler, of course, the founder and the president of SCP Auctions.

01:06They deal with the highest end sports memorabilia out there.

01:10A little bit earlier today, Mojo, I got on the phone with David and I asked him, how

01:14much is this ball worth?

01:16I knew it was going to be worth a lot, Mojo.

01:18I did not think this much.

01:20Well, the guy that caught it just got the golden ticket, that's for sure.

01:25Hopefully, he gives us a call because we've handled a lot of these milestone baseballs

01:29in our history, SCP Auctions.

01:32I believe this ball is $500,000 and up.

01:35I think it's actually overnight.

01:38My evaluation actually went up just thinking about how historic this is.

01:44One of the greatest individual performance in Major League Baseball history.

01:49Is there value in number 51 and 52, 53, and so on?

01:53I think there's some value in that.

01:55Each of these home runs that he hits, as he gets more steals, all of those things will

01:59factor into.

02:00Obviously, the 50-50 ball, that is historic.

02:04That's a moment, that's a milestone that's never happened that people are going to pay

02:08attention to.

02:09That ball is going to be worth more.

02:11Now, maybe the last ball, if he could get, I don't know, do they have nine more games,

02:15I think, in the regular season, the Dodgers?

02:18If he could get to 60-60, that would be, now we're going to go to a whole different

02:23level.

02:24Mojo, as David and I continue to talk, and people, if you're interested, check out the

02:29full interview on the TMZ Sports website, but he said, I think 500,000 is probably the

02:34low point, the low watermark, he could actually see the 50th home run ball selling in excess

02:40of a million dollars.

02:42Not too bad.

02:43You've got to wonder if that guy, Mojo, who was just a hair shy of snagging that thing,

02:48oh boy, he's got to feel bad today.

02:50I'm going to talk about that guy in a second, Babcock.

02:53I'll be brief on this other part here.

02:55I mean, yeah, it's kind of hard.

02:58This ball is going to be worth a lot of money, obviously.

03:00The things that he's doing on the field are just unbelievable.

03:03Based off of what he just did, with nine games left, who knows how many home runs this guy

03:09is going to have by the end of nine games.

03:12I mean, 60 almost seems like a lot, based off of how he's been playing recently.

03:17So yeah, I mean, that's got to probably diminish the value of the 50.

03:21If I'm the guy that got the 50th ball, I'm probably trying to dump that thing ASAP, because

03:27the second he hits 60, this 50 balls price is absolutely going to plummet.

03:32So all I know is I just hope it's not this guy.

03:36If this guy wasn't willing to lay out and put his body on the line for that ball with

03:43it being worth that much money, this man doesn't deserve it one bit.

03:49Take it away from him.

03:51Someone should just knock him out of the arena and make sure they take it from him in case

03:55he was able to rebound and get it, which I don't think he was.

03:58But you got to be better than that, man.

04:00If you're going to buy a seat in that location, you got to be familiar with your surroundings.

04:06You got to know the stakes are at the line, and if that is the effort that you're willing

04:11to bring to the table, you don't deserve it, sir.

04:15Get out.

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