For Emily Sauvageau, it officially pays to be a Rockies fan.
No matter that Colorado is cruising toward its worst season ever. Sauvageau made $44,322 from selling a Shohei Ohtani home run ball she caught on June 24 at Coors Field.
Sauvageau put the Ohtani ball, the Dodgers’ star’s 300th combined homer between NPB and MLB, up for auction through Lelands. The auction ended late Saturday night.
It didn’t fetch the six-figure price tag the auction house was projecting, but Sauvageau — a Rockies diehard who has been to 838 MLB games, the majority of them in LoDo — is grateful for the payout.
“It was such a fun experience,” Sauvageau said. “It was really exciting getting to see the bids go up especially towards the end. I couldn’t be more grateful for the money and just the experience in general.”
Sauvageau attended her first Rockies game when she was seven months old. Her dad, Dan Sauvageau, has had season tickets since 1999. The family’s tickets are in the front row of Section 153 in left field, where Emily (a gold glove first baseman for Adams State softball) snagged Ohtani’s opposite-field shot in a Dodgers win over the Rockies.
The 21-year-old plans to split the money with her younger brother, Ryan.
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