Yankees’ new torpedo bats draw attention after home-run blitz against Brewers

• Yankees hit 13 home runs in two games
• No indication that new bats are against MLB rules
• Aaron Judge homers using traditional bat

New torpedo bats drew attention when the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine homers that traveled a combined 3,695ft on Saturday.

Many of the Yankees are using a strikingly different model of bat than usual this season, in which wood is moved lower down the barrel of the bat, making the end resemble a bowling pin. Paul Goldschmidt, Cody Bellinger, Austin Wells, Anthony Volpe and Jazz Chisholm Jr all homered with the new bat in their team's 20-9 rout of the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday. The Yankees then hit a home run in each of the first three innings of Sunday's 12-3 victory over the Brewers, though two of those home runs came via Aaron Judge and Ben Rice, both of whom used traditional bats. Chisholm, who has never hit more than 19 home runs in a season, now has three home runs in his first three games of 2025 with the torpedo bat. The Yankees have hit 13 home runs in their last two games.