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People irresistibly impose a narrative on moving shapes.
In other words, watching someone else in pain and being in pain use the same neural machinery. This is the basis of empathy.
Not getting the ball might seem insignificant, but to the brain social rejection is so meaningful that it hurts, literally.
Why does rejection hurt? Presumably, this is a clue that social bonding has evolutionary importance – in other words, the pain is a mechanism that steers us toward interaction and acceptance by others.
One of the most important things we learn as humans is perspective taking.
