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Jackie Bradley Jr. must be in an 'Angels in the Outfield' sequel following great catch

Bradley Jr. makes catch from 'Angels in the Outfield'

Any child born sometime between roughly 1984 and 1992 has vivid memories of the Disney film, "Angels in the Outfield." And while the film, starring a not-yet-famous Joseph Gordon-Levitt and long-before-"True Detective" Matthew McConaughey, had plenty of startling baseball action, it also raised a lot of spiritual questions. 

Like:

- Is it OK for celestial beings to interfere with sports as long as they don't help in the final game? 

- Do angels really not have anything better to do?  

- In what world is it OK for an angel to tell a child that Tony Danza's character was going to die from lung cancer within six months?  

Well, get ready for those types of deeply religious questions to come up again as apparently the angels are back, but this time they're hanging out in Boston. In the top of the fifth inning on Saturday night, Jackie Bradley Jr. raced down the right-field line and leapt just in front of Pesky's Pole to rob the Royals' Lorenzo Cain of a hit. 

Except instead of jumping like a human does, Bradley seemed to glide across the outfield. As if something was helping him. 

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I mean, are you telling me that his catch looks all that different from this one? 

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