The New York Yankees hit NINE home runs during a 20 to 9 blowout of the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday. Yesterday, they hit FOUR dingers and beat the Brewers 12 to 3. They've hit 15 in their first three games.
Are they cheating? Actually not.
What several players are doing is using so-called "torpedo bats", which are thicker at the "sweet spot", rather than being an even circumference down the grain. That puts more mass where the hitter is trying to make contact.
And, as Newton's Second Law says, Mass times Acceleration equals FORCE.
Major League rules just say the bat can be no longer than 42 inches, the thickest part of the barrel can be no wider than 2.61 inches, and the bat must be one solid-continuous piece of wood.
Torpedo bats don't break those rules, and the Yankees aren't the only team with players who are using them.
Whether these bats really provide a huge advantage remains to be seen. The Brewers are having a bit of a pitching crisis at the moment, which definitely contributed to the Yankees' home run fest.
But you can probably expect to see more players using torpedo bats.
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