MLB Hot Bats
MLB Hottest Bats, Pete Alonso Leads the Week
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Pete Alonso 
Alec Bohm 
Gunnar Henderson 
Alec Burleson
Forget the season-long averages for a minute; hot is a right-now thing. Every line below comes straight from the last seven days of box scores, with a 8 at-bat minimum so nobody sneaks on with one good afternoon.
The man of the moment
Pete Alonso (BAL) is seeing beach balls. He has collected 13 hits in his last 23 trips to the plate over six games, good for a .565 clip, and the at-bats keep getting louder.
Averaged out, he is banging 2.2 hits a night over the window, which is the difference between a hot streak and a headline streak.
The power has traveled with the average, too, three home runs in the stretch, with 6 RBI to show for it.
Right behind him
Alec Bohm (PHI) is making noise of his own at 12-for-23 (.522) with one homer and six RBI.
Do not overlook Gunnar Henderson (BAL), 10-for-23 over the window with two homers and four RBI.
And Alec Burleson (STL) has strung together 10 hits in 27 at-bats (.370) with two homers and eleven RBI.
Also swinging it well: Chase DeLauter (CLE) 10-for-24, Alex Bregman (CHC) 9-for-24, Seiya Suzuki (CHC) 9-for-28.
By the numbers
The five hottest qualified lines, side by side:
| Player | Team | Line | AVG | HR | RBI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pete Alonso | BAL | 13-for-23 | .565 | 3 | 6 |
| Alec Bohm | PHI | 12-for-23 | .522 | 1 | 6 |
| Gunnar Henderson | BAL | 10-for-23 | .435 | 2 | 4 |
| Alec Burleson | STL | 10-for-27 | .370 | 2 | 11 |
| Chase DeLauter | CLE | 10-for-24 | .417 | 1 | 1 |
Worth remembering
The bar to appear is 8 at-bats across more than one game, no exceptions, so everyone named above has been doing this repeatedly, not once.
A hot week is a fact about the past, not a promise about tonight. Hitters drift in and out of these stretches all summer, the fun is catching one mid-heater.
One to circle: Baltimore Orioles meet New York Yankees in their next game, and we will find out quickly whether this stretch travels.