aluminum bats

[bankerbullie]

Has anybody ever even heard of breaking an aluminum bat like Florida did a few minutes ago?????....still think something is fishy with them hitting long balls...

 

[LandArchDawg]

nm

 

[Requiem For A Dawg]

One get sawed off at the handle like that

 

[missouridawg]

after the hitter swung and the ball off the extreme end of the bat (practically off the cap). The bat snapped about 3 inches above where the grip stops going up.

 

[Todd4State]

Doesn't happen as often as wood, of course, but it happens.

 

[RougeDawg]

in 2002.... Broke about 2/3 of the way up from the handle, and the piece went flying past the first baseman's head. Not the safest thing when a ball and jagged piece of metal flying through the air in the same direction...

I never used eastons, but saw a lot more of those old graphite ones break in two pieces. One reason I never liked using them.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

"Never seen before" as said on site.

 

[ringit]

I witnessed one of the EA70 Easton (titanium blue color) snap above the grip around '95-'96. Hit the pitcher in the upper thigh and cut him resulting in him needing stitches.

 

[RougeDawg]

but I'm pretty sure they haven't revolutionized the metals that bats are composed of and the method of making them. I've also seen one replaced with a new one and a teammate break the "BRAND" new bat less than a week after getting the new one. Not old as in been used 18 years, I'm referring to the previous style aluminum bats I used. Actually, the older the bat, the more prone it is to just denting and cracking. The newer ones have more tendency to snap off like that because they are still pretty stiff.

If you've never seen one break before, you've obviously didn't play baseball very long.

 

[bankerbullie]

I only played ball thru high school, but when I played, we used something called wood, and at times even had to tack the cracked bats together cause we couldn't afford another one(new one probably cost about $5 then)...

 

[RougeDawg]

and actually liked the way the woods felt swinging and the way the ball jumped when you hit the sweet spot, but they were a lot less forgiving. Wood bat seemed to have more of a whip action and when you hit it on the sweet spot it jumped more. Metal just helped more on bad swings.

Used to use wood sometime in BP to learn the sweet spot and then switched back to metal. Helped with driving the ball.

 

[TurfDog82]

It appears to be an Easton<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span>bat in this video.