Torpedo bats drew attention over the weekend when the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine homers in one game.

Despite losing their first game of the MLB season, the New York Yankees continued their historic start to the year as they broke multiple records through their prolific home run hitting.

It makes sense, then, that the talk around Major League Baseball after Opening Weekend concerned not a player or a team, a play or a result, but a piece of lumber: the torpedo bat. After speaking on Monday with various front-office personnel,

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Despite all the talk about New York's torpedo bats, Zac Gallen shut them down Wednesday night with 13 strikeouts in 6.2 innings.