'A competent carpenter does not care about his tools.' It proved to be a real game again.
In the end, hitting depends on the batter's ability, and the shape of the bat is a side factor. Early this season, the hottest topic in the Major League Baseball is 'Torpedo Bat'. Unlike regular bats, which have a convex end and become thinner toward the handle, the center of the bat where the ball is frequently hit is convex. It is similar to the shape of a torpedo.
In particular, New York Yankees players mainly came out and hit home runs with a scary momentum early in the season, heating up MLB. Yankees hit as many as 18 home runs in their opening four games. Of course, not all of them were hit with this bat. Aaron Judge, the Yankees' leading home run hitter, still uses a traditional bat. He hit four home runs with this.
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New York Yankees Jazz Chisom Jr. is striking with a new form of 「'torpedo bat'.
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Therefore, there is a heated debate over whether 'torpedo-type bat' will increase real home run production capacity. be scientifically helpfulThere is not much difference between ' and ' opinion. In the end, there are conflicting opinions that a home run will come out depending on the batter's ability.
In the middle of this debate, a home run with a very symbolic meaning came out. It came out in a game between the New York Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks at Yankee Stadium in New York on the 2nd.
It was a 7-5 victory for away team Arizona. The watershed moment was in the top of the eighth when Arizona trailed 3-4. With the bases loaded with two outs, veteran infielder Eugenio Suarez (34) shocked New York home fans with a pleasant 'reversal grand slam'.
However, the bat Suarez used at this time was a normal bat of a general shape that had been used for a long time. Suarez took this bat and knocked down the Yankees' lineup lined with `torpedo-type bat evangelists.'
Suarez, who had been silent in all three previous at-bats, came to the plate in the top of the eighth inning with two outs and a full base to face Yankees pitcher Mark Leiter Jr. In ball count 2B2S, the fifth splitter came into the body and fell.
Suarez turned his waist like a top and scooped up a falling splitter. The ball went over the left fence with a huge parabola. A come-from-behind grand slam and Suarez's fifth home run of the season. Arizona won in the end.
With this home run, Suarez is in a position like 'Guardian of the Traditional Bat. He is hitting a home run with a scary spirit at the beginning of this season, not with the help of a torpedo-type bat, but with pure self-power. Uniquely, all five hits recorded this season were home runs. Of course, Suarez, who flew the ball out of the fence, had an ordinary traditional bat in his hand.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
