Inside-the-park home runs are already a unicorn. Inside-the-park GRAND SLAMS are the kind of thing you tell your grandkids about. Wood, the Nationals' giant young outfielder, gave us one against a Mets team that is currently doing its best impression of a slip-and-fall lawsuit.
The full sequence — ball in the gap, Wood rounding the bases, Mets outfielders auditioning for a blooper reel.
The replies and quote tweets came in waves. PMT and PFT both jumped on it within a minute of each other, which is usually a tell that something is genuinely insane and not just algorithm bait. When the entire Barstool baseball machine is posting the same clip inside of 4 minutes, you're watching a moment, not a highlight.
PFT immediately christened him 'Jimmy Trees,' which feels like it might stick.
Clem, who streams Mets games like it's a court-ordered punishment, hopped on stream fresh off watching it live. There's a specific tone Mets fans use when something this brutal happens — equal parts laughing and dissociating — and that was the energy.
Clem checking in moments after the slam, in the only way a Mets fan really can.
Started the stream fresh off an inside the park grand slam against the Mets. Good times.
And then there's NjTank, the patron saint of Mets suffering, who Barstool Gambling openly suggested might be cooked by this one. An inside-the-park slam giving up on you is a very specific kind of baseball humiliation, and the Mets handed it over in 4 bases worth of misplays.
Stool Gambling calling the slam the final straw for NjTank99.
Wood is 22 and already doing things only a handful of humans on the planet are physically built to do — 6'7" guys are not supposed to be the ones legging out inside-the-parkers. The Nationals haven't had much to scream about in a while, but they've got a problem at the plate that the rest of the NL East is going to have to figure out fast. The Mets, meanwhile, get to go home and think about it.