A Shohei Ohtani foul ball led to one of the nicest fan exchanges you'll ever see

A foul ball. As a fan in the stands at a baseball game, few things are more exciting than a prized souvenir headed in your direction. And if you catch it (or pick it up off a bounce)? Well, that's the dream.

But something happened during Tuesday's Angels-Blue Jays game at Rogers Centre that totally reversed the expectation of the "typical" foul ball when Shohei Ohtani slapped one into the stands in the fourth inning.

A young man wound up with the baseball, but he noticed an Ohtani fan in a Nippon Ham Fighters jersey a few rows ahead of him. To take a cue from the buzzy internet blogs we see so often, What Happened Next Will Warm Your Heart (with that capitalization fully on purpose, of course):

So awesome.

A kid catches an Ohtani foul ball, spots a guy wearing Ohtani’s jersey from his days on the Nippon Ham Fighters and offers him the ball.

However, he lets the kid keep the ball. pic.twitter.com/KRja0Dkq0K

— Cut4 (@Cut4) June 19, 2019

Sportsmanship: It isn't just for the players on the field.