Hottest Bats in MLB: Elly De La Cruz Is Seeing Beach Balls

Hitting is contagious, streaky, and gloriously unfair, and the only honest way to track it is the box score. From the last seven days of captured games, minimum 8 at-bats to qualify, here is who is genuinely hot.

Top of the list

Elly De La Cruz (CIN) is seeing beach balls. He has collected 13 hits in his last 30 trips to the plate over six games, good for a .433 clip, and the at-bats keep getting louder.

It has not been one loud afternoon doing the work, either: the pace comes out to 2.2 hits per game across the run.

The power has traveled with the average, too, one home run in the stretch, with 3 RBI to show for it.

Nobody else in the qualified field has more than 11 hits in the window, so his lead is a real one, 2 clear of the pack.

The chase pack

Right behind him is Tristan Peters (CHW), who has gone 11-for-22 over the same stretch, a .500 pace with five homers and nine RBI.

Steven Kwan (CLE) belongs in the conversation too at 11-for-29 (.379) with two RBI.

Add Daylen Lile (WSH) to the watch list as well, 10-for-22 over the stretch with three homers and nine RBI.

Also swinging it well: Bryce Harper (PHI) 10-for-23, Carson Benge (NYM) 10-for-25, Brooks Lee (MIN) 9-for-25.

By the numbers

The five hottest qualified lines, side by side:

Worth remembering

Qualification here is simple and strict: at least 8 at-bats and more than one game inside the window, so a single loud afternoon cannot crowd out a real heater.

Small samples run hot and cold by nature. Treat this as a snapshot of who is seeing it well right now, not a forecast of anyone's next at-bat.

Next up on the slate: Cincinnati Reds against Chicago Cubs. Check back after that one goes final.