MLB Hot Bats
MLB Hottest Bats, Zach Neto Leads the Week
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Zach Neto 
Daylen Lile 
Ezequiel Duran 
Steven Kwan
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 hottest hand
Zach Neto has spent the week making pitchers miserable. The LAA hitter has rapped out 13 hits in 31 at-bats across seven games, a .419 average, and nobody else in the sample is particularly close.
It has not been one loud afternoon doing the work, either: the pace comes out to 1.9 hits per game across the run.
The power has traveled with the average, too, two home runs in the stretch, with 10 RBI to show for it.
Right behind him
Daylen Lile (WSH) is making noise of his own at 12-for-31 (.387) with three homers and nine RBI.
Ezequiel Duran (TEX) has quietly gone 12-for-25 (.480) with one homer and six RBI.
Add Steven Kwan (CLE) to the watch list as well, 12-for-29 over the stretch with three RBI.
Filling out the board: Luis Garcia Jr. (NYY) 11-for-21, Pete Alonso (BAL) 11-for-24, William Contreras (MIL) 11-for-22.
At a glance
The five hottest qualified lines, side by side:
| Player | Team | Line | AVG | HR | RBI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zach Neto | LAA | 13-for-31 | .419 | 2 | 10 |
| Daylen Lile | WSH | 12-for-31 | .387 | 3 | 9 |
| Ezequiel Duran | TEX | 12-for-25 | .480 | 1 | 6 |
| Steven Kwan | CLE | 12-for-29 | .414 | 0 | 3 |
| Luis Garcia Jr. | NYY | 11-for-21 | .524 | 4 | 8 |
Worth remembering
A word on the cutoff: hitters need 8 at-bats and multiple games in the window to make this list, which keeps one-night wonders off the board.
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: Los Angeles Angels meet Philadelphia Phillies in their next game, and we will find out quickly whether this stretch travels.