but how can you stand to mange a baseball team that can not win . for george knox and it be not easy . a the movie open and roger beaumont ( joseph gordon levitt ) and his best friend j. p ( milton davis jr. ) be rid on thier bike around the angel stadium . when they return to thier foster mother home and roger be suprised to have a visit from his dad ( dermot mulroney ) . his mom be dead . and when he ask his father when they go to be a family again and he father joke i say when the angel win the division championship so later on and roger and j. p hide in a tree to watch the angel play baseball . when the manger george knox ( danny glover ) take out his pitcher and the pitcher get mad and get into a fight with him and and soon the angel team get into the fightm that get knox eject from the game . that night roger make a prayer and for the angle win the championship . when his foster mother maggie nelson ( brenda ficker ) agree that roger and j. p go to a basball and roger see real angle come on the field and help the left fielder ( matthew mcconaughey ) make a catch and that leave the manger and the play by play man ( jay . o sander ) how do he to that . roger learn from the head angel ( christopher lloyd ) that only he can see the angle and because he be the only that pray for help . positive .