As Giants right fielder Jung Hoo Lee explains, it’s also about researching — including studying Luis Arráez’s unique approach at the plate.

Lee was shelved for 10 days in late May with a strained back and spent games in the batting cage studying pitch types through the Trajekt technology, which simulates every pitcher in the majors, and also watching a lot of Arráez. Since his return, Lee has been sizzling hot at the plate and collected two of the Giants’ five hits in Saturday’s 3-2, 10-inning loss at Wrigley Field, extending his career-high hit streak to 14 games.

“The IL helped,” Lee said through interpreter Justin Han. “You were in a stretch where you were playing every day, and then you got off the field and into the dugout watching your teammates play.

“For me, I try to reference a lot of what Luis Arráez does in his at-bats.”

Lee hears often from the three-time batting champ. Not about the mechanical side of the game as much as the mental side – Arráez’s mindset in certain situations, how Arráez attacks particular pitchers, and how Arráez handles success and failure.

How does it all compute for Lee?

“Luis is an open-arm guy, and we try to communicate a lot,” Lee said. “At times, Luis would just come up to me and share what he’s feeling about the game. So I feel Luis is a big help on what I’m doing right now.”

It’s the ultimate compliment, one big-leaguer shouting out another for inspiring him. Lee has plenty in common with Arráez. They swing left-handed, rank among the best contact hitters in the game (strikeouts are a rarity), and are hitting in the .300s — the difference is, .300 is the norm for Arráez, but for Lee, it hasn’t been common since his days in the KBO.

Fittingly, they’ve got the identical average, .324, tied for fourth in the majors behind Philadelphia’s Brandon Marsh (.335), Miami’s Otto López (.333), and Tampa Bay’s Yandy Díaz (.326).

Lee has hit ridiculously well since getting activated, a whopping .595 (22-for-37) in nine games with just two strikeouts. The last Giant with 22 hits over a nine-game stretch was Willie Mays in 1958.

In his 14-game hit streak, currently longest in the majors, Lee has 27 hits, most by a Giant over 14 games since Buster Posey in 2014.

That’s dipping into franchise royalty.

And how does Lee apply what he learned from Arráez to his mental game?

Probably not what you think.

“I might be in a place where a lot of people are thinking that I’m putting a lot of detail on my hitting right now,” he said. “But it’s actually the opposite where I’m trying not to think about what I’m doing and just going with the natural flow of what happens every at-bat, every game.”

So Crash Davis was right, noting in the 1988 baseball classic Bull Durham, while sharing lesson No. 1 with Nuke LaLoosh, “Don’t think. You’ll only hurt the ballclub.”

Lee is just playing ball and letting his talent take over. With a tip of the cap to Arráez, who wanted nothing to do with this story, by the way. Arráez is usually media-friendly and willing to share his thoughts, but when told what Lee said about him, Arráez walked away with a smile on his face.

He didn’t want to jinx Lee.

“I want him to keep hitting,” Arráez said.

The hitting coach was cool talking about how Arráez’s game carries over to Lee. And everyone else in the lineup, for that matter.

“Arráez has a carryover effect to the rest of the group,” Hunter Mense said. “The personality he has will play out with a lot of different guys in the lineup. A lot of times, the personality of some of the better hitters will carry over into the at-bats of some of the other guys in the lineup. I think it innately happens with Jung Hoo because he’s watching his at-bats.”

Arráez learned much of his hitting philosophy when he was in the Twins’ organization from Hall of Famer Rod Carew, a seven-time batting champ. Early in the season, Arráez told The Standard that Carew emphasized “to hit the ball the other way. To bunt if the third baseman gives you a free base hit. To eliminate the strikeout. And to not try to hit homers. He said homers will come but just find the barrel and run the bases.”

Sort of fits Lee to a T.

“I’m not trying to hit a double or triple out there. I’m just trying to get a hit to help out the team,” Lee said. “Of course exit velo is important, but if you have the ability to find the grass where there aren’t any defensive position players out there, yeah, you get on base. Finding the grass, you might as well do it.”

Lee’s second hit Saturday came in the ninth inning, and when he scored on Matt Chapman’s sacrifice fly, the Giants (after exploding for 30 runs the previous two games) held a 2-1 lead. But Keaton Winn coughed up a game-tying homer to Pete Crow-Armstrong with two outs in the ninth, and the Cubs won it in the 10th on Michael Busch’s single to right field that Victor Bericoto botched.

While this is the best Lee has looked in a Giants uniform — aside from that three-homer series he enjoyed at Yankee Stadium early last season – it might not be exactly what the Giants envisioned when handing him a six-year, $113 million contract before the 2024 season.

In the KBO, he hit as many as 23 homers, drew as many as 66 walks, and stole as many as 13 bases. He rarely puts up numbers in any of those categories. His last homer was May 14. Last walk was May 3. And last steal was … well, Saturday. But before that, way back on Aug. 16 — for the record, he has made multiple attempts on the trip only to have a teammate hit a foul ball. Finally, in the seventh inning Saturday, Lee swiped a bag.

Nevertheless, is that meeting expectations? Put it this way, the Giants will take this version of Lee rather than the alternative. Like most Giants, he started slowly this season, hitting .185 through the first 16 games. Since then, he’s hitting a blistering .370.

“I honestly think Jung Hoo has come into his own,” manager Tony Vitello said. “Being healthy and getting time acquired around the organization, but also being in the country and knowing the league. I think the skill set is what it is.

“Letting Jung Hoo be Jung Hoo.”

Fine with Jung Hoo.

“I don’t really want to be happy about it,” he said of breaking out at the plate. “I just want to be consistent on where I’m hitting right now and see where I’m at at the end of the season.”