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.

The hottest hand

Elly De La Cruz has spent the week making pitchers miserable. The CIN hitter has rapped out twelve hits in 24 at-bats across six games, a .500 average, and nobody else in the sample is particularly close.

Averaged out, he is banging 2.0 hits a night over the window, which is the difference between a hot streak and a headline streak.

Add five home runs and 10 RBI, and you have a hitter carrying his corner of the lineup.

Right behind him

Then comes Jakob Marsee (MIA): 11 hits in 21 at-bats, a .524 clip with four RBI.

Zach Neto (LAA) belongs in the conversation too at 10-for-24 (.417) with two homers and six RBI.

Add Jackson Chourio (MIL) to the watch list as well, 10-for-27 over the stretch with two homers and seven RBI.

Filling out the board: Ivan Herrera (STL) 10-for-27, A.J. Ewing (NYM) 10-for-18, Teoscar Hernandez (LAD) 10-for-19.

At a glance

For the scan-and-go crowd, the leaders in one place:

One more thing

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.

Nobody stays this hot forever, and the box scores will tell us the moment it cools. Until then, enjoy the show.

One to circle: Cincinnati Reds meet Milwaukee Brewers in their next game, and we will find out quickly whether this stretch travels.