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The Natural is real and Jose Bautista is Roy Hobbs (he broke bulbs at Fenway)

Joey Bats is Roy Hobbs, breaks bulbs at Fenway

If you check the barrel of Jose Bautista's bats, we're guessing you'll find "WONDERBOY" and a lightning bolt carved in there because he's basically The Natural.

Joey Bats and the Blue Jays were in Boston to take on the Red Sox on Tuesday and -- when he was at the plate in the top of the fourth inning -- Bautista launched a foul ball deep into the Boston night. When it finally tried to come back to Earth, the ball hit the Coca-Cola sign to the left of the left-field foul pole, shattering a bunch of bulbs in the process.

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Bautista eventually straightened it out just enough to sneak this eighth-inning moonshot inside that same foul pole:

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Yup: same person.

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