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Adrian Beltre makes juggling barehanded grab on liner, Elvis Andrus is very impressed

Beltre tips liner with glove, makes barehanded snag

As fans, we've become accustomed to routinely marveling at the exploits of pro ballplayers. We're 90 percent sure that's what's powering Twitter right now. For the athletes themselves, though, it's tough to get too worked up about all of the everyday brilliance they make look so routine -- it's quite literally just part of a day's work, after all. 

Which is why Elvis Andrus is so refreshing (you know, plate discipline notwithstanding). Early in Saturday's Orioles-Rangers game, Andrus' partner-in-crime Adrian Beltre made a preposterous grab, deflecting a line drive with his glove before calmly snatching it with his bare hand:

Beltre catch

It's the kind of play us laypeople couldn't make in a million years -- according to Statcast™, the exit velocity on that ball was 105.65 mph -- so Andrus took the time to check the Jumbotron and make sure that, yes, he did really just do that:

Andrus

Athletes: They really are just like you! Only with an extra metric ton of hand-eye coordination and agility, but hey.

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