Baseball bat manufacturers had little evidence to suggest a spike in sales was just around the corner when Major League Baseball’s newest season opened last week. It had been four years since ...

Friday marked the start of Players’ Weekend in Major League Baseball, the annual celebration where players use an eclectic mix of custom bats, cleats and other equipment to highlight different ...

This is the Rhys Hoskins that Wathan, who has watched him play as much baseball as anyone ... in Game 4 or for the rest of October, the bat spike will be replayed in this ballpark as long as ...

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob ... called "torpedo bat," a bowling-pin shaped bat the popularity of which has coincided with a very modest spike in the league home-run rate relative ...

He subsequently put his own twist on a bat flip, emphatically spiking his bat directly into the ground as he jogged to first base. The blast, accompanied by Hoskins’ celebration, sent the ...

PHILADELPHIA - Another year, another bat spike. A year after Rhys Hoskins electrified the first postseason Citizens Bank Park crowd in 11 years with a three-run homer off the Braves’ Spencer ...