The Yankees hit 15 homers in their first series and some were hit with « torpedo bats »
Through the first eight hours and 54 minutes of the new season, the New York Yankees are up to 36 runs and 15 home runs.
The home runs traveled a combined 5,897 feet; including the nine on Saturday when the Yankees set a team record and joined the 1987 Toronto Blue Jays (Sept. 14, 1987 at Baltimore) and the 1999 Cincinnati Reds (Sept. 4, 1999 at Philadelphia).
Some of those home runs were also torpedoed into the seats, not in the literal sense but in the type of equipment that complies with MLB rules about barrels having a circumference of no more than 2.61 inches.
The Yankees seemingly newfound “torpedo bats” were a major trending topic before and during Sunday afternoon when the Yankees completed their impressive sweep over the Milwaukee Brewers in their first meaningful games since Juan Soto left for a massive 15-year, $765 million deal with the New York Mets.
While the concept of a bat designed with the barrel closer to the batter’s hands may seem new, creating an edge within the framework of the rules for bats is hardly a new topic even it became such a massive thing that even ABC World News mentioned it as the penultimate story on Sunday’s evening broadcast.
“We have a big organization that are invested in a lot of different things where we’re trying to be better in every possible way,” said manager Aaron Boone, who hit one of the Reds’ nine homers at Veterans Stadium in 1999. “The reality is, it’s all within Major League standards. It’s 2025 so it’s different and we can account for things a lot better.
