Japanese Pitcher’s Sweet Gesture After Hitting Batter in WBC

Gotta love this sportsmanship.

The World Baseball Classic is off and running, and while Team USA has gotten off to a rough start, we have seen a lot of cool moments so far in what has been a very fun tournament. 

One of these moments came off the field, when Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki found a sweet way to apologize to Czech Republic batter William Escala after hitting him in his knee with a 101-mph fastball, which didn’t look like much fun at all. 

Sasaki, a 21-year-old phenom who can routinely hit triple digits on the radar gun, went to Escala’s hotel Monday morning and gave him two bags of candy as an apology. 

This looked painful:

Here’s a photo from their meeting:

Gotta love that sportsmanship.