Kirby left with a bloody lip after the line drive off the bat of Baltimore’s Ramon Urias ... s first pitchers’ fielding practice — PFP in baseball slang — since spring training.

In the first period of the game between Buffalo Sabres and the Philadelphia Flyers, a bat flew down from the rafters, swooping around the seats, and finally around the players standing at the ...

Until now, most research has used either generalized cell samples or organoids made from just one type of tropical fruit bat, and only from a single organ. But a breakthrough has arrived ...

Teams mentioned bat speed training, “short box” competitive batting practices, and scouting for bat path — and several teams were already trying to mimic those efforts themselves.

but we usually get a pretty good sense of how strikeout percentages will look within the first four to five starts for pitchers and 150 at-bats for hitters. We are still waiting on larger sample ...

As other sports have adapted to technology advancement, popular opinion and culture shifts, baseball has been a stalwart in tradition – one of which is the bats hitters use. But in 2025 ...

For her PhD research, bat biologist Kadambari Deshpande made overnight recordings of bat echolocation calls in the Western Ghats. A “good night” would generate about 30 GB of data from 11 ...

The final score, 20–9, was almost too good to be true. And then, everybody noticed the bats. At first glance, the craze appears to be the culmination of the data-driven tweaks that have ...

You know the deal by now: The New York Yankees hit a bajillion home runs on opening weekend, with several of the sluggers involved swinging “torpedo” bats that are crafted more like bowling ...

You’ve been hearing all about torpedo bats of late, and with good reason. New equipment isn’t introduced to Major League Baseball often, but the torpedo bat represents a change in the design ...

Before then, Leanhardt had never really thought about the design of bats, any more than he’d thought about his glove or his spikes, he recently told reporters. But he was well positioned to ...

While baseball is a game on the cutting edge of data analysis, rarely has it resulted in notable changes to equipment — at least nothing like the so-called “torpedo bat.” The oddly shaped ...