The inside-the-park homer is already the rarest fun thing in baseball. You need a perfect storm: a ball hit just right, an outfielder caught just wrong, and a hitter willing to absolutely cook it around the bases. What you usually do NOT need is a baseball that turns into a pinball the second it hits the grass. Lee got the bonus version.
The clip itself, in all its bouncing glory.
Watch the ball. It just keeps going. It hits, it kicks, it skips, it gets away again. Every time you think someone is about to corral it, it squirts out another 15 feet. Meanwhile Lee is just running. No hesitation, no looking back, no waiting to see what the cutoff does. By the time the ball is finally under control, he is already rounding third like a guy who knew the whole time that this thing was never getting fielded cleanly.
The wider Barstool feed flagged the same play, ball-just-kept-bouncing and all.
This is exactly the kind of play that gets Lee his money's worth from the Giants. He has been advertised since the jump as a contact-and-speed guy who turns weird outfield situations into extra bases, and that is precisely what happened here. Some hitters trot. Some hitters jog. Lee sprints out of the box on contact, which is the entire reason a bouncing ball in the outfield becomes a four-bagger instead of a stand-up double.
Inside-the-parkers are the highlight reel cheat code. They are chaotic, they are unrepeatable, and they get the timeline going every single time. File this one under reasons baseball is still undefeated when it actually decides to be weird.