It didn't exactly have the cachet -- or the sale price -- of the bloody sock worn by former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, but the Cincinnati Reds gave fans a chance to own another blood-stained piece of baseball memorabilia.

The Reds' team website auctioned off a baseball stained with the blood of Chicago Cubs pitcher Jeff Samardzija used during an April 24 game at Great American Ballpark. The auction, which opened Tuesday, closed Friday morning with a high bid of $130.01. It's uncertain how many bids were placed. A call to the Reds' auction site was not immediately returned.

"It's pretty exciting. I remember looking at that ball, wondering what was going to happen to it," Samardzija said Friday. "I was hoping the umpires didn't see it. I don't know, it's pretty interesting. Somebody who gets it has to be a pretty intense fan. That's for sure."

Samardzija cut his hand reaching for a high-hopper over the mound off the bat of the Reds' Shin-Soo Choo in the first inning of that game. Samardzija wiped blood from the cut on his finger on his pants and got it on at least one baseball, too. He pitched six innings in a 1-0 loss.

"There's very rare times in sports that you can show you can play through different things," Samardzija said. "Sometimes freak injuries are the best way to do it, to show how you feel about playing this game and playing for your team. I wasn't going to come out of that game. I'm just excited they let me stay in and keep playing."