Hottest Bats in MLB: Drake Baldwin 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

Drake Baldwin has spent the week making pitchers miserable. The ATL hitter has rapped out 13 hits in 30 at-bats across seven games, a .433 average, and nobody else in the sample is particularly close.

Averaged out, he is banging 1.9 hits a night over the window, which is the difference between a hot streak and a headline streak.

And he is not just slapping singles: one home run and 5 RBI over the run.

The gap matters too: the next-best hit total in the sample is 11, leaving him 2 hits clear of everybody.

The chase pack

Then comes Daylen Lile (WSH): 11 hits in 22 at-bats, a .500 clip with four homers and nine RBI.

Rafael Devers (SF) belongs in the conversation too at 11-for-27 (.407) with three homers and six RBI.

Seiya Suzuki (CHC) keeps the list honest at 11-for-26 (.423) with two homers and five RBI.

Also swinging it well: Luis Garcia Jr. (NYY) 11-for-27, Pete Crow-Armstrong (CHC) 10-for-28, George Springer (TOR) 10-for-19.

By the numbers

Here is the top of the board, straight from the box scores:

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.

The schedule cooperates, too, Atlanta Braves face Washington Nationals next, so this story gets its next chapter almost immediately.