- Yankees deliver big hits with newly designed bat
- No indication that new bats are against MLB rules
- Aaron Judge homers using traditional bat
New torpedo bats drew attention when the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine homers that traveled a combined 3,695ft on Saturday.
Many of the Yankees are using a strikingly different model of bat than usual this season, in which wood is moved lower down the barrel of the bat, making the end resemble a bowling pin. Paul Goldschmidt, Cody Bellinger, Austin Wells, Anthony Volpe and Jazz Chisholm Jr all homered with the new bat in their team’s 20-9 rout of the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday. The Yankees then hit a home run in each of the first three innings of Sunday’s game against the Brewers, though two of those home runs came via Aaron Judge and Ben Rice, both of whom used traditional bats.
