While impressive, the scene was reminiscent of a more astonishing event documented nine years ago, involving an orca that used its flukes to fling a harbor seal at least 70 feet skyward. The ...

Baseball season is back, and it didn’t take long for the New York Yankees to start crushing records and dominating conversation. And at the center of it all? “Torpedo” bats. The Bronx ...

If major leaguers continue to use the bats successfully — and the future generations of baseball catch on, too — these bats could become a staple of the game sooner than later. While the bats ...

At Jeremy LeBlanc’s 50-and-up amateur baseball league game in North Carolina last weekend, one topic dominated the dugout conversation: the “torpedo bats” that had suddenly taken over the sport.

A lethal swing from Maverick Carroll cleared the bases for the Woodbury Central High School baseball team in walk-off fashion ...

Standing over a machine that carves baseball bats from wooden cylinders in just two and a half minutes, Bouffard is making many more torpedo bats of late. Unlike a regular bat, the torpedo was ...