Can you use a broken bat in MLB?
If a bat breaks and part of it is in fair territory and is hit by a batted ball or part of it hits a runner or fielder, play shall continue and no interference is called. If a batted ball hits part of a broken bat in foul territory, it is a foul ball.
When you are on the plate and batted with the same energy that you usually do, but the ball does not go as you expected, it is time to check your bat. The lifespan of the baseball bat depends on how often you use it. If you hit the ball and do not hear the same noise as before, you have a broken-bat.
Depends, says Kulp. "Depending on the damage, sometimes the bats go in the garbage can. Other times they are either given away or given to the team store to sell. Players like that because they get half the money for the bats that sell."
Howell not only achieved the impressive feat of homering while breaking his bat, in the process he accomplished something perhaps equally impressive: doing something the legendary Vin Scully had never seen before.
"Depending on the damage, sometimes the bats go in the garbage can. Other times they are either given away or given to the team store to sell. Players like that because they get half the money for the bats that sell."