Jung Hoo Do You Think You Are? I Am!

San Francisco outfielder Jung Hoo Lee showed us exactly who he is over the weekend in Colorado, knocking out 11 hits in 15 at-bats over three games, including a career-high five in the Giants 19-6 destruction of the Rockies on Sunday. The 27-year-old became the first Korean-born player to record five hits in an MLB game and he is batting a whopping .517 over his last seven games. We know who Lee is as a hitter at this point, now in his third year in the MLB after seven in the KBO. He is not going to give you big power or speed numbers and he rearely takes a walk. But Lee is a tough out at the plate who rarely swings and misses (95th percentile in both Whiff% and K%) and will knock out a lot of base hits (98th percentile Squared-Up%). Lee is now hitting .304/.341/.433 with a career best 120 wRC+ and while he may not be the most exciting player in the game, he certainly has plenty of value hitting in the San Francisco lineup.

 

Let’s see how the other hitters did on Sunday:

 

Colton Cowser (BAL): 2-3, HR, 2 R, 4 RBI, BB.

Look out for Colton Cowser because he is on one right now, after hitting 424-foot, three-run HR off Spencer Miles as part of a four-RBI day in Baltimore’s 9-5 win over Toronto. The 26-year-old outfielder is now hitting .353/.421/.735 with all four of his HRs over his last 15 games, including two-walk off blasts. Cowser doesn’t cheap out on any of his HRs either, as all four of his have been no-doubters (a HR in all 30 MLB ballparks). Cowser has shown the ability to hit for power at the Major League level (24 HRs in 2024) and if he can ever get that 30.2 K% down he could be a huge boost to the Orioles’ lineup.

 

Brooks Lee (MIN): 2-4, 2 HR, 2 R, 3 RBI.

After getting dominated in his first two at-bats, Brooks Lee responded with a two-run HR off Braxton Ashcraft in the sixth inning and a solo shot in the ninth, providing the Twins with all three of their runs in the 9-3 loss to Pittsburgh. Lee has enjoyed a solid start to the 2026 season (.255/.310/.430, 106 wRC+) and he is now halfway to the 16 HRs he hit in 2025.

 

Ronald Acuña Jr., Jr. (ATL): 2-3, HR, R, 2 RBI, 2 BB.

There is hot and then there is what Ronald Acuña Jr., Jr. has been over his last four games. After hitting a 112-mph, 438-foot shot on the first pitch of the game, Acuna has now hit a HR in four consecutive games, with five total. He also has nine RBI and four stolen bases over that four-game stretch and this is more like the MVP Acuna we saw in 2023.

 

Juan Soto (NYM): 2-4, HR, R, 4 RBI.

Juan Soto broke Sunday’s game against Miami wide open with his third career grand slam as the Mets continued their strong offensive weekend in a 10-1 rout. The Amazin’s put up 25 runs over the three-game series and Soto carried on what has been an impressive 15-game stretch. The 27-year-old is hitting .382/.469/.873, with nine HRs over his last 15 games, right when the Mets needed him to be at his best.

 

Marcus Semien (NYM): 2-2, HR, 2 R, 2 RBI, 2 BB.

Another veteran the Mets are relying on, Marcus Semien hit his fifth HR of the season and got on-base all four times he batted in the win. I am firmly in the camp that Semien’s days as a productive hitter are dwindling, as evidenced by his 9th percentile bat speed, but it is still nice to see the 35-year-old shine on days like this.

 

Rafael Devers (SF): 4-6, 3 2B, 4 R, RBI, BB.

We probably could have included just about every hitter in the San Francisco lineup, but I suppose we’ll just limit it to four. Rafael Devers rapped out three doubles and scored four runs in the 19-6 victory and the beleaguered superstar has started to look good over the last month, hitting .296/.346/.565.

 

Willy Adames (SF): 3-5, HR, R, 4 RBI, BB.

Willy Adames had the biggest hit of the blowout, hitting the sixth grand slam of his career to extend the Giants’ lead to 11-3 in the team’s seven-run fifth inning. The veteran shortstop now has five HRs in his last 15 games to go with a .311/.358/.672 line.

 

Bryce Eldridge (SF): 4-6, HR, 2 2B, 4 R, RBI.

Bryce Eldridge announced his presence to the MLB with a mammoth 453-foot HR the sixth inning, the longest homer by a Giants player this season. Somehow, nobody was on base for the HR, but Eldridge also hit two doubles and scored four times for San Francisco.

 

Ben Rice (NYY): 2-5, 3B, 2B, 2 R, 4 RBI.

Ben Rice had a monster third inning at the plate for the Yankees, hitting a two-run double and a two-run triple as New York 13 runs in the frame, tied for their biggest inning in 106 years. What more can be said about Rice’s performance this year. The 27-year old is leading the Pinstripes in pretty much every offensive category and his 17 HRs are tied with Aaron Judge for the team lead.

 

Alex Freeland (LAD): 2-3, HR, 2B, 2 R, 2 RBI, BB.

The last hitter in the vaunted Dodgers lineup had the biggest day in the team’s 9-1 clobbering of Philadelphia, as Alex Freeland opened the scoring with an RBI double in the second and followed it up with a solo HR in the fourth. The 24-year-old was recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City last week and could be in an extended look at 2B with Enrique Hernández injured.