After the Yankees hit nine home runs Saturday, thanks in part to their funky-shaped bats, the astrophysicist and Yankee fan told CNN 'somebody should have invented this decades ago.' A legendary Stanford physicist is way ahead of him.

Takeaways from the Yankees' first loss of the season, a 7-5 late comeback win by the Arizona Diamondbacks at the Stadium.

They won't be the home-run-hitting type of torpedo bat, but instead the miniature kind perfect to open a cold bottle of your favorite beverage on a hot summer day. The Dash will be giving away ...

Torpedo bats are just the latest innovation in the design of baseball bats, some of which stuck, and others which ... did not.

The New York Yankees may have stumbled onto something special with 26-year-old lefty slugger Ben Rice. After a strong spring,

Engineered by a former MIT physicist, the torpedo bat is completely legal under MLB rules. It meets all dimensional requirements but redistributes mass toward the barrel, creating a larger, denser sweet spot.