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Your puny outfield walls are no match for Rajai Davis and his crazy dinger-robbing skills

Davis gets serious air to bring back home run

Remember the jump program scene from "The Matrix"? You know, where Morpheus leaps between two buildings like he's taking his morning stroll:

We bring this up not because your worst nightmares have finally come true and reality has been revealed as merely a hollow simulation  -- although, SOON -- but to give you some idea of the ease with which Rajai Davis scaled the left-field fence at Comerica Park to rob poor David Ross of a home run during Tuesday's Cubs-Tigers game. Except, you know, Rajai Davis is not a kung-fu messiah in a trench coat with magically levitating sunglasses, so this seems a bit more impressive:

Rajai snag

We've been led to believe that robbing home runs is a difficult enterprise, completed by only the most remarkable athletes. Little did we know they could just treat outfield walls like children's toys. 

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