MLB Hot Bats
Who's Seeing It Best: Riley Greene Tops the MLB Hot-Bat Board
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Riley Greene 
Jackson Chourio 
Jake McCarthy 
A.J. Ewing
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 man of the moment
Riley Greene has spent the week making pitchers miserable. The DET hitter has rapped out 14 hits in 28 at-bats across seven games, a .500 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 2.0 hits per game across the run.
The power has traveled with the average, too, three home runs in the stretch, with 12 RBI to show for it.
Right behind him
Right behind him is Jackson Chourio (MIL), who has gone 13-for-28 over the same stretch, a .464 pace with two homers and nine RBI.
Jake McCarthy (COL) has quietly gone 12-for-30 (.400) with one homer and six RBI.
And A.J. Ewing (NYM) has strung together 11 hits in 23 at-bats (.478) with one homer and seven RBI.
The rest of the hot list reads Jakob Marsee (MIA) 11-for-23, Spencer Jones (NYY) 11-for-24, Cody Bellinger (NYY) 10-for-28.
The board
Here is the top of the board, straight from the box scores:
| Player | Team | Line | AVG | HR | RBI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riley Greene | DET | 14-for-28 | .500 | 3 | 12 |
| Jackson Chourio | MIL | 13-for-28 | .464 | 2 | 9 |
| Jake McCarthy | COL | 12-for-30 | .400 | 1 | 6 |
| A.J. Ewing | NYM | 11-for-23 | .478 | 1 | 7 |
| Jakob Marsee | MIA | 11-for-23 | .478 | 0 | 4 |
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.
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: Detroit Tigers against Colorado Rockies. Check back after that one goes final.