2026-04-02 ワシントン州立大学(WSU)
<関連情報>
- https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2026/04/02/science-confirms-torpedo-bat-works-as-well-as-regular-bat/
- https://baseball.physics.illinois.edu/ISEA2026-Torpedo-v7.pdf
トルピードバットに関する研究 Studies of the Torpedo Bat
Alan Nathan1, Lloyd Smith2, Daniel Russell
ISEA 2026 – The Engineering of Sport 16, Washington State University, USA, 1-4 June 2026
Introduction
The baseball world was taken by surprise on March 29, 2025, when the New York Yankees hit nine home runs in a single game, a team record. Moreover, many of these home runs were hit using a new-fangled bat which has since been dubbed the “torpedo” bat because of its unusual shape compared to a more conventional bat, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Two of the bats used in the present study: a standard bat (top) and torpedo bat (bottom).


