While Aaron Judge rocked three homers using his normal bat, a number of Yankees opted for the Torpedo bat, which was designed in part by former Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist Aaron Leanhardt and are notable for being densest at the barrel, or the "sweet spot" of the bat.

Players like Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Anthony Volpe have openly embraced it. Designed by former Yankees staffer and MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt, the bat redistributes mass toward the hitter’s hands for a more balanced swing without reducing barrel size.

After the Bronx Bombers lived up to their nickname with an historic nine-homer game, attention turned to the new larger-barrel bats some players used.