Will there be a significant offensive surge in baseball now that hitters across the league want their hands on the bats? Maybe, but not anytime soon.

Despite losing their first game of the MLB season, the New York Yankees continued their historic start to the year as they broke multiple records through their prolific home run hitting.

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.

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

BALTIMORE —Amidst the hype about the Yankees’ “Torpedo” bats, Alex Bregman received one from the Marucci bat company.

The Yankees hit four home runs in the first inning off Brewers starter Nestor Cortes on Saturday, starting with three consecutive homers on three pitches. Their nine home runs broke the franchise record of eight and was one short of the MLB record, 10 homers in a single game accomplished by the Toronto Blue Jays in 1987.

Hitting coach Kevin Long says the team will try to get “a better understanding of the whole science” behind the bat craze that is sweeping baseball.

The New York Yankees made history on Tuesday. After tying the Major League home run record for the most long balls hit through the first three games of a season

Dave Portnoy, the founder and president of the popular Barstool Sports site, is also a prolific poster of online monologues. In one such video posted on Sunday, which he described as an "emergency press conference" though the video appears to show Portnoy alone in his home,