Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Louisville Slugger handcrafted De La Cruz's first-ever torpedo bat, which he used for the first time March 31 against the Texas Rangers.

Fabian, a Norfolk Tides outfielder and one of the top prospects in the Baltimore Orioles organization, is one of many players to try the newish, but increasingly ubiquitous torpedo bats.

"It's pink bat season, and we're gearing Elly De La Cruz up for Sunday," Louisville Slugger captioned its Facebook post. Louisville Slugger handcrafted De La Cruz's first-ever torpedo bat ...

He does that a lot. The “bat junkie,” as Pederson was once called by a former manager, is testing out the much-ballyhooed torpedo bat. Trying out different bats was something that new Rangers ...

On this week's episode, we round the bases with a couple of sports stories, like a "torpedo bat" design giving baseball players newfound power. But what is it about these bats that allows players ...

So *** torpedo bat is designed in *** way where more of the wood is placed at the sweet spot for each batter. It is *** customized bat, so where they make the most contact most often, they put the ...