Bats do not fatally crash into each other every night, even in colonies of hundreds of thousands of them, squeezing out of caves to forage. Bats perceive their world mostly through echolocation.

BALTIMORE — Amidst the hype about the Yankees’ “Torpedo” bats, Alex Bregman received one from the Marucci bat company. “We’ll see if I end up using it or not,” Bregman said before ...

A number of Yankees are utilizing a novel bat shape — a seemingly inflated ... So how meaningful is a barrel size being maxed out? I think it’s actually very meaningful.” ...