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The Yankees weird-looking custom bats, explained

The New York Yankees set a franchise record for home runs with nine on Saturday at home against the Milwaukee Brewers.

Perhaps the team's newly-designed wooden bats had something to do with it?

Yankees play-by-play broadcaster Michael Kay detailed during the game how New York redesigned its wooden bats thanks to a franchise study on shortstop Anthony Volpe's hitting patterns with the bat.

"[New York] moved a lot of the wood into the label so the harder part of the bat is going to actually strike the ball," Kay explained on the broadcast.