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TAMPA — It is once again time to embark on another 72-hour craze over the legitimacy of the Yankees’ bats and how they are changing the sport.

That is what happens when they club nine home runs, in case you had forgotten.

For the second time this season, the first sparking the torpedo bat fad after the second game of the year, the Yankees crushed nine homers — seven in the first four innings alone — to tie the franchise record in a laugher of a 13-3 beatdown of the Rays at Steinbrenner Field.

Giancarlo Stanton, Cody Bellinger and José Caballero drilled two homers apiece while the Yankees in t

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