In its 141-year history, Louisville Slugger has made more than 4,000 different bat models. And now, a bat that kind of looks like swinging a bowling pin.

Torpedo bats are the explosive new trend in baseball after the New York Yankees set a franchise record Saturday, hitting nine home runs — the first four of which were back to back to back to back — for a 20-9 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers.

Louisville Slugger's chief of corporate communications, said. "As long as it’s within the rules of Major League Baseball — and that is that it has to be a solid piece of wood and the barrels ...