MLB Hottest Bats, Cody Bellinger Leads the Week

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

Nobody is squaring the ball up like Cody Bellinger (NYY) right now: eleven hits in 27 at-bats across seven games, a .407 pace that leads every qualified hitter we track.

It has not been one loud afternoon doing the work, either: the pace comes out to 1.6 hits per game across the run.

The power has traveled with the average, too, four home runs in the stretch, with 9 RBI to show for it.

The chase pack

Right behind him is Jake McCarthy (COL), who has gone 11-for-30 over the same stretch, a .367 pace with five RBI.

Do not overlook Drake Baldwin (ATL), 10-for-29 over the window with two homers and seven RBI.

And Riley Greene (DET) has strung together 10 hits in 21 at-bats (.476) with one homer and seven RBI.

Filling out the board: Jackson Merrill (SD) 10-for-22, Randal Grichuk (CHW) 10-for-24, Spencer Jones (NYY) 10-for-26.

At a glance

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.

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.

The schedule cooperates, too, Colorado Rockies face San Diego Padres next, so this story gets its next chapter almost immediately.