The final score, 20–9, was almost too good to be true. And then, everybody noticed the bats. A handful of Yankees had used unconventional instruments to hit their home runs: Their bats bulged ...

The extraordinary torpedo bats that have taken MLB by storm may be headed toward being completely ordinary. “I think you’re going to see it across all 30 teams,”former MLB pitcher and co ...

Torpedo baseball bats hit it big when the Yankees set a new team record with nine home runs in one game earlier this season. We visit a factory in Louisiana to see what makes them so special.

Bats eat up to half their body weight daily ... studying forests threatened by climate change and invasive pests. The illustration for this column was drawn by Adelaide Tyrol.

They are insectivores—they eat insects—and dung beetles make up the majority of their diet. This bat illustration is from the 1878 book, Anatomical and zoological researches: comprising an account of ...

The opening weekend of the 2025 MLB season was taken over by a surprise star -- torpedo bats. The bowling pin-shaped bats became the talk of the sport after the Yankees' home run onslaught on the ...

Never one to shy away from a controversial topic, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred lauded “torpedo” bats as the future of America’s pastime, calling them “absolutely good for baseball” in a ...

Yankees infielder Jazz Chisholm Jr. hits a single with his new bat on March 29, 2025. Jason Szenes for the NY Post The Brewers were on the wrong end of the Yankees and their new torpedo bats this ...