In the first period of the game between Buffalo Sabres and the Philadelphia Flyers, a bat flew down from the rafters, swooping around the seats, and finally around the players standing at the ...

Teams mentioned bat speed training, “short box” competitive batting practices, and scouting for bat path — and several teams were already trying to mimic those efforts themselves.

As other sports have adapted to technology advancement, popular opinion and culture shifts, baseball has been a stalwart in tradition – one of which is the bats hitters use. But in 2025 ...

For her PhD research, bat biologist Kadambari Deshpande made overnight recordings of bat echolocation calls in the Western Ghats. A “good night” would generate about 30 GB of data from 11 ...

The first bat-wearable microphone is helping biologists study the bats’ good safety record at avoiding collisions in rush hour air. On summer evenings, in around a minute, some 2,000 greater ...

The final score, 20–9, was almost too good to be true. And then, everybody noticed the bats. At first glance, the craze appears to be the culmination of the data-driven tweaks that have ...

You know the deal by now: The New York Yankees hit a bajillion home runs on opening weekend, with several of the sluggers involved swinging “torpedo” bats that are crafted more like bowling ...

You’ve been hearing all about torpedo bats of late, and with good reason. New equipment isn’t introduced to Major League Baseball often, but the torpedo bat represents a change in the design ...

Before then, Leanhardt had never really thought about the design of bats, any more than he’d thought about his glove or his spikes, he recently told reporters. But he was well positioned to ...

The "torpedo bat" trend in baseball has taken over the internet and permeated clubhouses all over Major League Baseball as players and fans try to quickly learn what it is. The torpedo bats ...

The New York Yankees’ 20-9 win against the Milwaukee Brewers last Saturday has put the spotlight on the odd, bowling-pin-shaped “torpedo bat” that many of the team’s players were swinging.

Torpedo bats are the explosive new trend in baseball after the New York Yankees set a franchise record Saturday, hitting nine home runs — the first four of which were back to back to back to ...