For Emily Sauvageau, it officially pays to be a Rockies fan.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sauvageau put the Ohtani ball, the Dodgers\u2019 star\u2019s 300th combined homer between NPB and MLB, up for auction through Lelands.<\/a> The auction ended late Saturday night.<\/p>\n It didn\u2019t fetch the six-figure price tag the auction house was projecting, but Sauvageau \u2014 a Rockies diehard who has been to 838 MLB games, the majority of them in LoDo \u2014 is grateful for the payout.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was such a fun experience,\u201d Sauvageau said. \u201cIt was really exciting getting to see the bids go up especially towards the end. I couldn\u2019t be more grateful for the money and just the experience in general.\u201d<\/p>\n Sauvageau attended her first Rockies game when she was seven months old. Her dad, Dan Sauvageau, has had season tickets since 1999. The family\u2019s tickets are in the front row of Section 153 in left field, where Emily (a gold glove first baseman for Adams State softball<\/a>) snagged Ohtani\u2019s opposite-field shot in a Dodgers win over the Rockies.<\/p>\n The 21-year-old plans to split the money with her younger brother, Ryan.<\/p>\n