{"id":6586,"date":"2025-05-07T00:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T00:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/6586\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T00:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T00:48:06","slug":"torpedo-bats-cleared-for-use-in-games-in-japan-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/6586\/","title":{"rendered":"Torpedo bats cleared for use in games in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nippon Professional Baseball on Friday notified its 12 clubs that players can use so-called torpedo bats in regular-season games.<\/p>\n

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Photo taken on April 11, 2025, at Yokohama Stadium in Yokohama near Tokyo shows a so-called torpedo bat (R) and a conventional bat. Nippon Professional Baseball notified its 12 clubs the same day that players can use the torpedo-shaped bats in regular-season games. (Kyodo)\u00a0<\/p>\n

NPB’s rules committee made the decision, effective the same day, after confirming that the torpedo-shaped bats, which have taken Major League Baseball by storm this season, do not violate any rules.<\/p>\n

Torpedo bats widen out into the barrel and get thinner again toward the end of the bat, drawing comparisons to a bowling pin.<\/p>\n

“It’s not against the rules. No problem at all,” said Masato Tomoyose, one of the committee members.<\/p>\n

According to The Associated Press, when the New York Yankees smashed a franchise-record nine home runs in a 20-9 rout of the Milwaukee Brewers on March 29, five players homered with torpedo bats, including Paul Goldschmidt, Cody Bellinger and Anthony Volpe.<\/p>\n

Two days later, Cincinnati Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz homered twice when he used a torpedo bat for the first time.<\/p>\n

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