MLB Hottest Bats, Ty France 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.

Top of the list

Ty France has spent the week making pitchers miserable. The SD hitter has rapped out twelve hits in 26 at-bats across six games, a .462 average, and nobody else in the sample is particularly close.

Spread it out and that is 2.0 hits a game, every game, for the whole stretch, not one big night propping up a quiet week.

And he is not just slapping singles: one home run and 7 RBI over the run.

The chase pack

Then comes Jackson Merrill (SD): 12 hits in 30 at-bats, a .400 clip with one homer and six RBI.

Cole Carrigg (COL) has quietly gone 11-for-27 (.407) with three homers and nine RBI.

Jake Cronenworth (SD) keeps the list honest at 11-for-28 (.393) with three RBI.

Also swinging it well: Dustin Harris (SD) 11-for-29, Pete Crow-Armstrong (CHC) 10-for-29, Jeremy Pena (HOU) 10-for-26.

By the numbers

The five hottest qualified lines, side by side:

One more thing

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.

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