Entering the year, Steven Souza was perhaps best known for being the player the Rays chose over Washington’s stud shortstop Trea Turner in the Wil Myers deal a while back. But Souza has had a very solid season in Tampa, racking up 3.6 fWAR on the strength of his bat, strength made apparent yet again on Wednesday night.

That’s when Souza blasted a home run to the deepest part of Tropicana Field. MLB is ridiculous and doesn’t allow for all their highlight videos to be embedded, so here’s a shaky YouTube video highlight that might get taken down at any time. (I assumed it’d be on Twitter, but apparently the Rays haven’t quite inspired their fanbase to log every moment of the season online.)

And while that’s an impressive home run (nothing’s a sure thing with Kevin Pillar in center), it perhaps didn’t look like much from the main highlight angle.

Fortunately for us, we get replay angles, and doubly fortunately for us, Tropicana Field, for all its many flaws, allows for some cool/weird camera placements. That means that we now have this gif, which is just fantastic:

That’s amazing! It looks like a routine pop-up, which goes to show just how disorienting camera angles can be without the proper reference points. And also just how high these guys can hit home runs. And also how weird Tropicana Field is; Souza himself recently hit a mammoth homer that was ruled to be in play for a brief moment after it hit a catwalk:

It’s reminiscent of one of my favorite golf clips ever, as well, when Dustin Johnson power faded a camera crane:

Seriously, though, watch that Souza gif again. It’s mesmerizing.

About Jay Rigdon

Jay is a columnist at Awful Announcing. He is not a strong swimmer. He is probably talking to a dog in a silly voice at this very moment.