#6 Personal Angels in the Outfield

Roger lives away from his father, and has lost his mother in this film. He has two dreams throughout this movie and they are that he wants to live with his family and he wants the local baseball team to win a championship. He seems to be the only one who has faith in the team eventually coming around and winning a championship. The idea he gets from this is when he meets with his dad and he says that they can be a family again when they win the pennant which seems far from reality because they are in last place at this time. Roger prays every night that God can help the players play better than they actually are to help them win a pennant. When Roger goes to a game he sees angels all over the field helping the players make unbelievable plays and terrible hitters start to hit better. Roger tells the manager this and they decide to keep him around at every game and every time a player needs help, Roger sees an angel appear and miraculously bad goes to good.
Once they make it to the championship, Roger finds out that no angels will be helping them on this day. The championship must be won by themselves. When the pitcher gets in trouble, who is Roger’s favorite player and because he is a heavy smoker knows that he will die in six months, the manager goes and one would think that he is going to take him out of the game, but since the players do not know about the angels not being there, he tells him that he has an angel with him and leaves him in the game. The Angels eventually win the championship without the help of the angels. The movie is symbolic of angels because it is made with the only team in the league that makes a reference to angels, the LA Angels. The angels are doing works of God throughout this film to not only help out the players win a pennant, but also to help Roger get his family back. In the end we find out that he father I a coward and does not take his son back but he is adopted and stays around the game of baseball. This was one of my favorite movies as a child and after taking this course, the analysis of the movie and relation to angels and God working in mysterious ways in apparent.