The ball from Freddie Freeman’s walk-off grand slam to win Recreation 1 of this yr’s World Collection has bought for $1.56 million at public sale, in line with a press release by SCP Auctions. Bidding on the historic ball ran by way of Saturday evening.

With the bases loaded and two outs within the backside of the tenth inning in Recreation 1 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees, Freeman drilled his first pitch from Nestor Cortes 413 ft, giving the Dodgers the win by way of the very first walk-off grand slam in World Collection historical past. Freeman’s grand slam would propel the Dodgers to a bonus within the sequence they might by no means relinquish, as they defeated the Yankees in 5 video games for his or her eighth World Collection title.

Freeman’s World Collection ball is now the third-most helpful baseball ever bought, two of which at the moment are a part of the Dodgers’ 2024 season. Earlier this yr, the ball from Shohei Ohtani’s fiftieth residence run in his 50-50 season bought for $4.392 million, breaking a document that had been set by the sale of Mark McGwire’s seventieth residence run ball from the 1998 season at $3.005 million.

This marks the second time this week that an artifact from the 2024 World Collection has been bought at public sale. Earlier this week, the fly ball dropped by Aaron Decide to spark the Yankees’ Recreation 5 fifth-inning meltdown bought for greater than $43,000.