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This series of posts raises a good question:  Does God help people perform their jobs?
Of course he does.  All a person has to do is ask for help.  At least, God helps me out of the nasty business situations in which I have often found myself.  My prayer often goes like this: Dear God, please let this or that issue resolve, I can't deal with any more problems, or anxiety, or whatever.  God has not only helped me through problems, he has also given me strategies for dealing with them.  
I once prayed with a convicted crack dealer before his probation violation hearing where he was facing five years and a judge who hated drug dealers.  He was truly sorry for his crimes.  He only got a month in jail and a discharge from probation.
Jesus promises our daily bread, and he gives it.  That does not mean that God promises or gives immunity from existential pain.  He only helps people weather their storms, rather than giving them continual good weather.  Of course, I believe that if a person were to live a Godly life, that he would eliminate all sorts of needless problems and pains from his life.
My thoughts on Divine intervention in baseball (May not be proper divinity):  I don't believe that God ordinarily interferes in organized sports because he doesn't favor one team over another.  Much as we may not approve, he doesn't favor the Mariners over the Angels and Athletics (At least I don't think so).  To favor one team means to disfavor another, as sports are a situation where every win is another team's loss.  However, God may make a special example out of one team or person or another.  For example, the Tampa Bay Rays have been tearing it up ever since the franchise dropped the "Devil" from the title notwithstanding the team's lowly payroll and fearsome opposition.  With respect to Tim Tebow, this could also be occurring.  Maybe Tebow is supercharged with divine success because he gives God credit for it, and practically begs for a miracle when one would not ordinarily be warranted.