ANAHEIM — Shohei Ohtani’s first home run as an Angel on Tuesday night shocked baseball fans across the country – and the world.

But some were even more surprised by an act of kindness by a 33-year-old Indians fan who first found that home-run ball.

Chris Incorvaia, a Cleveland resident visiting Orange County to watch his favorite team play against the Angels, picked up the ball that landed next to him in the very first row of the right-field stands and immediately handed it to the kid sitting right behind him.

“We were watching it coming this deep and my friend goes, ‘Run over there and try to grab it!'” Incorvaia told the Register during the April 3 game. “I’m like, ‘I’m not going to jump into those guys.’

“I waited, ball hit cement, picked it up and, instantaneously, put it in that young man’s mitt.”

“He’s an Angels fan. I’m an Indians fan,” Incorvaia said. “I knew he would appreciate it a lot more.”

That lucky boy was Matthew Gutierrez, a 9-year-old who lives in Orange.

“I said, ‘Thank you,'” Gutierrez, who attends Mcpherson Magnet School, told the Register. “He was very nice.”

Tuesday was Ohtani’s debut game at Angel Stadium and the 397-foot homer came during his first at-bat. The Japanese superstar is the first player since Babe Ruth in 1921 to win as a starting pitcher and then hit a home run as a non-pitcher the following game in the same season, according to Washington Post.

Incorvaia said he knew the significance of the home-run ball he had just given away.

“I understood it, but it was more important to make sure that someone who’d really appreciate it could have that ball,” he said.

Gutierrez later handed the ball over to an Angel staffer who came to ask if Ohtani could have the milestone ball. Gutierrez and Incorvaia went down to the Angels clubhouse after the game to personally hand the ball to Ohtani.

Ohtani gave Gutierrez an autographed ball and a bat. The boy said his favorite players are Mike Trout, Ohtani and Albert Pujols.

“I want to be a major league baseball player on the Angels,” said Gutierrez, a Little Leaguer who plays shortstop, left field, pitcher and first base.

Incorvaia, a die-hard Indians fan, said after the game he ran and bought an Ohtani replica jersey to get the player’s autograph.

“This is a big deal,” he said.