MLB Hot Bats
Hottest Bats in MLB: Alec Bohm Is Seeing Beach Balls
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Alec Bohm 
Shohei Ohtani 
Drake Baldwin 
Caleb Durbin
Reputations do not get a vote here. Over the last seven days the box scores have been keeping their own list of who is actually seeing the ball in MLB, and the name at the top is not up for debate.
The hottest hand
Alec Bohm has spent the week making pitchers miserable. The PHI hitter has rapped out eleven hits in 22 at-bats across five games, a .500 average, and nobody else in the sample is particularly close.
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, one home run in the stretch, with 8 RBI to show for it.
The rest of the hot list
Shohei Ohtani (LAD) is making noise of his own at 10-for-29 (.345) with four homers and eight RBI.
Drake Baldwin (ATL) belongs in the conversation too at 10-for-23 (.435) with one homer and three RBI.
Caleb Durbin (BOS) keeps the list honest at 10-for-24 (.417) with one homer and seven RBI.
Also swinging it well: Yandy Diaz (TB) 10-for-25, Pete Alonso (BAL) 9-for-20, Gabriel Moreno (ARI) 9-for-25.
The board
Here is the top of the board, straight from the box scores:
| Player | Team | Line | AVG | HR | RBI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alec Bohm | PHI | 11-for-22 | .500 | 1 | 8 |
| Shohei Ohtani | LAD | 10-for-29 | .345 | 4 | 8 |
| Drake Baldwin | ATL | 10-for-23 | .435 | 1 | 3 |
| Caleb Durbin | BOS | 10-for-24 | .417 | 1 | 7 |
| Yandy Diaz | TB | 10-for-25 | .400 | 1 | 2 |
One more thing
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.
Next up on the slate: Philadelphia Phillies against Miami Marlins. Check back after that one goes final.