Via Deadspin, a video of a Japanese pitcher who plunked Tony Batista, thought Batista was charging the mound (he wasn't), and started to run away. Among the shots of players laughing at this display of utter cowardice--the M's own Kenji Johjima, then a teammate of Batista on the Fukuoka Soft Bank Hawks. You'll see him just after they show Batista chatting with the first baseman.

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I think he may have decided to charge the mound for like a second. Watch it again.