2 weeks Ago By Austen Bundy, Yardbarker
Father Manny Alvarez had no idea when his church bought 200 tickets to the Miami Marlins game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sept. 19 — for a community outing planned months ago — that they would be blessed with witnessing Shohei Ohtani's latest historic achievement. Ohtani became the first member of the MLB's 50-50 club Thursday, meaning he's the only player to record at least 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a single season.
On top of that, he was the first Dodgers player to hit 50 homers — going 6-for-6 and tallying 10 RBI in Thursday's game. Shohei Ohtani just had one of the greatest performances in MLB history: 6-for-6 3 Home runs 2 Doubles 1 Single 10 Runs Batted In 4 Runs Scored 2 Stolen Bases He became the first player in MLB history to reach the 50/50 (and now 51/51) club. Greatest.
Of. All. Time.
pic.twitter.com/bSiWLnjkWM On such a monumental night, Alvarez somehow managed to acquire physical paper tickets for his parishioners — something rarely seen in modern sports anymore.
With roughly 60 unused tickets leftover, Alvarez took to X to advertise the memorabilia were available for purchase — not for personal profit but to raise money for his parochial school's new gym . Tonight I saw Ohtani in the single greatest baseball performance I’ve seen in person. I have plenty of mint condition PHYSICAL tickets that our school didn’t use.
Contact @305sportsbabe if ur interested in buying one of those tickets to help our school build a much needed gym. pic.twitter.
com/e21QW0kZ7Z Ashley Dominguez, director of development at St. Theresa Catholic School, told Yardbarker that within the first few hours of Alvarez's post that they had raised more than $5,000 toward the new gym just by selling 20 of the leftover tickets. Their total goal is to raise $20,000 toward the $13 million project.
Alvarez's and Dominguez's posts garnered more than 13,000 likes, dozens of replies and over a hundred direct messages inquiring about the tickets. "Funds are still heavily coming in," per Dominguez. She said the church outing was planned around their students singing the national anthem prior to the game.
"It was such a blessing seeing them showcase their talents in front of our South Florida community," she said. "I am sure that some baseball fans, particularly new Ohtani fans have been made." As of this publishing, Dominguez says they've raised nearly $8,000 and still have 25 tickets remaining.
Alvarez did not return requests for comment. Quotations and figures obtained firsthand unless otherwise noted..
