Following an offensive explosion — in which the team hit 15 home runs and scored 36 runs in just three games — questions emerged about the unusual bats used by some of the team's hitters.

They wanted to make more contact with pitches and they wanted to strike the ball more often with the bat’s “sweet spot,” or the densest area. “They’re going to point to a location on the ...

Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Anthony Volpe were among the many players using so-called "torpedo" bats when they joined the home-run party and helped propel the Yanks to their historic home run barrage.

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. When a colony of bats leaves their cave and takes to the skies at night to hunt, they often do so in such big groups that they ...

When several of them were seen using an odd-looking new weapon, the baseball world seemed to go bat-crazy trying to learn more about what we now know as the "torpedo bat." The idea behind the new ...

And at the center of it all? “Torpedo” bats. The Bronx Bombers tied an MLB record as they hit 15 home runs in their opening three-game series – including a franchise-record nine in their 20 ...

The New York Yankees are usually the talk of baseball, but Saturday’s game took it to a new level, thanks to their new bats. The Yankees blasted the Milwaukee Brewers, 20-9, and hit a franchise ...

Before the Yankees' franchise-record nine-homer outburst on Saturday, the Dodgers' hitting coaches had never heard of "torpedo" bats. "I saw them like everybody else did — on social media and TV ...

You’ve been hearing all about torpedo bats of late, and with good reason. New equipment isn’t introduced to Major League Baseball often, but the torpedo bat represents a change in the design ...

Torpedo bats have been the talk of baseball season so far after a record-setting home-run performance by the New York Yankees during Major League Baseball’s opening weekend and, closer to home ...

NEW YORK — The New York Yankees’ bats were the story of the team’s franchise-record nine-home run day against the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday. Then came the discussion about the actual ...

Torpedo bats are the explosive new trend in baseball after the New York Yankees set a franchise record Saturday, hitting nine home runs — the first four of which were back to back to back to ...