Many of the Yankees used torpedo bats while posting historic numbers this weekend. Here's how the team started using the oddly-shaped bats and why they're legal.

Romeo ― When Paul LaMantia and Ryan LaPensee were growing up together in Windsor, rising through the amateur baseball ranks ...

MIAMI — For the MIT-educated physicist behind the torpedo bat, it’s more about the talent of the players than their lumber at ...

Reds' superstar Elly De La Cruz became the latest MLB player to smash a home run with a torpedo bat, but what is it? And are ...

Paul LaMantia and Ryan LaPensee have learned a valuable lesson from early in the 2025 Major League Baseball season.

Roy Hobbs, the fabled swinger of his beloved “Wonderboy,” might disagree. But there really is no such thing as a “magic bat.” ...

PITTSBURGH — Steven Kwan has been swinging a torpedo bat on the Guardians’ current road trip.

Reds' superstar Elly De La Cruz became the latest MLB player to smash a home run with a torpedo bat, but what is it? And are ...

MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt has been credited with creating the torpedo bats. Leanhardt previously served as a hitting ...

Brewers third baseman Oliver Dunn made his way to the plate with a torpedo bat in hand with one out in the second inning and ...

Similar to a bowling pin, the bat is fatter where the label is and it tapers off slightly toward the end. The redistribution of weight moves the "barrel" area slightly toward the hands, rather than ...

The New York Yankees quietly brought a physics experiment to the plate. Then came the home-run barrage.