At 1:54 ET on Saturday afternoon, New York Yankees play-by-play man Michael Kay lit the fuse on what will be remembered as either one of the most metamorphic conversations in baseball history or one of its strangest.

Max Muncy -- the Los Angeles Dodgers one, not the A's guy -- decided to try the now-famous (or infamous, as some feel) torpedo bat on Wednesday night in an eventual win over the Atlanta Braves.

The New York Yankees have taken Major League Baseball by storm at the plate so far in 2025, and the bats they are using have been given the credit. The Yankees debuted newly designed bats known as “torpedo bats” that increase the batter’s ability to get solid wood on the ball.

"I think it’s an amazing discovery," said Angels outfielder Taylor Ward, one of many players suddenly interested in the new bats.

With Muncy ditching the torpedo, the Dodgers had the game all knotted up at five when Shohei Ohtani came to bat with two outs in the ninth and no one on base. The Japanese superstar drilled a home run to center to walk it off, giving Los Angeles a 6-5 win and an 8-0 record while Atlanta flounders to an 0-7 embarrassment.

Even with Ronald Acuña Jr. still recovering from an ACL tear, the Atlanta Braves are expected to have one of the most explosive offenses in all of Major League

The New York Yankees' use of a "torpedo" style baseball bat was all the talk around MLB over the weekend, but Aaron Judge is not one of the players using

Dodgers star Max Muncy opted to ditch the torpedo bat to hit a game-tying double in the eighth inning of Los Angeles' comeback win over the Atlanta Braves.