I’m just playing baseball.” That the Yankees had a historically great game, and that some players were using funny-looking bats, “is more coincidence than destiny or science,” Smith told me. After all ...

But torpedo bats are simply an iteration in ... Since then, after some MLB-led investigations into maple bats, the manufacturing processes evolved and the rate of broken bats has improved.

On Monday, bat manufacturer Louisville Slugger posted a sneak peek of the pink torpedo bat Cincinnati Reds ' star Elly De La ...

“All I can say,” said Bobby Hillerich, a vice president of manufacturing and operations ... Milwaukee Brewers in New York on Friday. “Torpedo bats” officially entered the sports lexicon ...