Pink Bats Rule For Second Straight Year

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Thanks to brilliant analysis by the website, Old Time Family Baseball, we now know that those players using pink bats on Mother's Day outperformed non-pink bat users for the second straight year. The 2012 numbers are:

• Pink Batters—.303
• Non-Pink Batters—.266

In 2011, the numbers were:

• Pink Batters—.285
• Non-Pink Batters—.216

For the Red Sox, only Cody Ross wielded a pink baton yesterday (see pic)—and he went 0-3 with a HBP.