Hitting a 500-foot NUKE with an illegal reissued Easton Korea “Z2K” 

This video is a great example of how much "conditions" affect hitting distance. In our last video (Hitting with the Louisiana Ragin Cajuns), we were hitting at 40-foot elevation, with 75% humidity, with BBCORs and beat-up BP baseballs. Today's we're in Utah at 4,800 elevation, with dry air, unrestricted bats, and MLB baseballs. Result = an extra 125 feet of distance!!!

Man what a beautiful backdrop for a field. It honestly might be distracting to batters and catchers, it looks so good.

Eric Sim is going be droppin F Bombs more than normal when he sees he missed out on this opportunity

Big ups to Bro Scotty bringing out his personal collection and working overtime to get these bats from Korea.

Props to Scotty for using his collection of pristine beauties, too. That was awesome of him.

It's crazy to think when I was a kid playing in high school we were legally allowed to swing the redline and Z2K in games.

One day we need like an O'Neil Cruz or Stanton to swing one of these off like 90 mph pitch to see the absolute limits of human strength be on display

I tip my hat to the 40 plus year old brother! Keeping the dream alive. Dude you are an inspiration!

I miss swinging these two bats. These were in everyone’s hands back in them HS days

u do what u do best, keep calm and hit nukes. luv your vids!!!

Something about hitting homeruns that just.........is so nice. I could watch this content all day

Thanks for showing off them Wasatch mountains! Gotta love opening a video and immediately recognizing the place.

Z2K is a bomb machine. That Redline is a nuke machine. I’m so happy to finally get this video.

Who would have thought that watching bros hitting baseballs would be so entertaining... Well played.

I think it would be awesome to see you do this at a major leauge ballpark if a team let you

Z2K and Redline two of the OG🐐 bats 🔥

Man that OG redline sound still gets me

Look at the mountains as the background. Very beautiful place.

i remember staring at these bats in Baseball Express catalog when they came out. nostalgic.

I'm working on it will lol I'm gonna make the greatest bat ever made Now from what i know, the bats from the Korean reissue are not a carbon copy of the originals simply because of the alloys available. Back then, they used a scandium doped alloy called sc500, which they did not have access to on the reissue, but they compensated by using a different alloy with very similar properties. The gains they made on this bat are definitely on the composite side of things for the reinforcement. 1 caveat on the home run derby bats idea When it comes to making illegal home run derby only bats, you don't need to sell a bat that's inherently illegal. This restricts the bat makers market and can put them in hot water with litigation, as Louisville Slugger learned from a 2002 lawsuit in their Air Attack 2, a bat i have studied extensively. What you can do is simply buy a sanctioned bat and have it doctored (shave and rolling). This gives you performance on the level of an illegal bat without restricting the bat makers profit margins. It's likely why there are not any bat manufacturers producing bats that push past regulations Also one thing to note, even though the z2k doesn't say it, it actually was a regulated bat. In fact, it's the same regulation as USSSA uses today and was the origin of the regulation, it's just that the regulations back then were a total mess and nobody really listened. More on that later. We can talk one time about how the late 90s was probably the most drama in baseball bat history

Hitting with you guys seems like it would just be so fun. The atmosphere is always light and smiles.

The sound of the Redline❤. I'll never forget that it. I had the Redline -8 32/24 back in 1999 and let me tell you, I was the coolest kid in the league. Even other teams players wanted to use my bat during the games lol. Best bat I've ever used

The Redline was the bat I hit my first ever home run with in 1999 as a senior. Loved that bat.

Love finding videos filmed in UT. Good videos guys👍🏽

I’m like a month new to this channel. Apologize if this video is already done, but would love to see videos like this which include a pitcher view + slow mo + freeze frame where the ball connects with the bat. Love the sound of home runs.

Love the Bat Bros cut of this. Extra footage is awesome, dunno if you need to incorporate the shot tracking too. The sound of those Redlines and Z cores takes me right back to high school. From memory the difference was that the Z core had a carbon kevlar insert, but the redline had a straight carbon insert in the barrel. And the new bats dont look to be made with the scandium 500 alloy which was the ultimate. Thanks for putting up the links to buy the bats. I might be able to get one shipped to Australia if all you US guys cant get them! Thanks again for the awesome content Will and team. Any chance the other Bat Bros will make an appearance back on the channel?

Just down the street from us. My son loves playing at that field. Currently playing at Timpview High School. Beautiful surroundings, and a fun video.

Redline is the God for sure I played in that exact era of baseball and I had every Easton in that time frame

I love the Z2K, that bat was my baby when I was a kid.

I own an 33 inch OG redline I just picked up from my moms house. I remember using it in babe Ruth league not knowing it was an illegal bat haha. Can’t wait to get some swings with it now as an adult

They gave us these my freshman year at Santa Clara during the 97 regional at Stanford, fresh out the plant. We were hitting balls over the batters eye and way into the soccer fields. Amazing bat

Thanks for all the videos! I was a fairly good hitting first baseman in my youth but never had hitting instruction. Of course, the first things I learned were to keep my eye on the ball, not swing too hard, and keep my swing level to the flight of the ball. All sounds good but hard to practice in the moment. However, if you will permit, I would recommend to beginners who haven't developed strong upper-body strength that all gestures with the bat be kept to a minimum - such as tilting or waving the bat just prior to contacting the ball. That detracts from the coordination needed to make proper contact with the ball. Thanks!

That z2k sound brings back a lot of memories

"we have accurate measurement this time".... little bit later.. " you swear on your mama it landed here?" haha :D

that Redline holds a special place in my heart

This is awesome. I was hoping you would somehow get your hands on one of those anniversary bats. Both of those bats sound so damn good.

Need to find an original TPX air attack. That thing has an even bigger barrel.

I'm born and bred in Milwaukee and am a big fan of the Crew and love seeing dudes rep the blue in gold

I had as Easton redline when I was 11, didn’t really know the barrel size limitation rules at the time. I hit a ball over the fence on the field across from the one we were playing on. It cleared 3 fences in total and after that when I got back to the dugout the umpire came over and told me I was too young to be swinging that size bat. Without doubt one of the hottest ever made.

I miss when bats sounded good and had that super ping sound thank you for bringing it back

love the vids dawg i watch a different bat bros video everyday hope y’all have a great one

Scotty with the big dogg hacks

I love watching these videos. I’m all about statcast and exit velocity and I was a monster home run hitter back in the early 1990s and I never got a chance to measure out my longest home run but I’ve hit softballs out of Triple A Yankees rail riders stadium and U-trip tournaments hitting balls almost 500’. As for baseball I swung a 53/32 Easton Black Magic and my farthest home run was about 400’ with the black magic and I swung the 34.5/29.5 Easton Ultra light when facing pitchers that could throw high 80s to low 90s. Playing American Legion ball a friend bought a EASTON CCORE 34/30 in which I hit my furthest home run by 50 - 75 feet. 450 conservatively 475 max in NJ. When I hit I didn’t feel anything. It had felt like anything and I had no clue if I got good but we played at a field that was 330 down the lines 405 in center. The field was about 375 to left center had trees behind it 50 feet tall and 40’ beyond the fence and after hitting that home run my teammates told me it didn’t touch a tree and it flew over the trees. I had reached the trees on a bounce before but never into the trees. This ball flew over the trees and using Google Earth I believe it was 450 if the ball was clipping the top of the trees. I was 6’-6” 240 lb 18 year old and the opposing coach had said in the newspaper that the ball flew well beyond 440 feet. What you guys should do is invest in mark out flags so the kids mark the landing spot with a flag and use a measuring wheel. I couldn’t imagine if I had a USSSA Easton Stealth Comp or something similar. I had no clue back in the early 90s that the bat made that much of a difference. When I was a child I thought my new sneakers made me run faster and as I was a teenager I felt like the bat didn’t have much of an effect on how far I hit the ball. How wrong I was especially with Easton CCORE 34/30. I only swung it because i didn’t have my 34.5/29.5 ultralight with me and the kid I was facing was throwing gas and the 35/32 BM I was a tad late on the ball. The other thing that helped me was he threw a perfect 2-2 fastball that I didn’t swing at that I thought clipped the outside part of the plate and the Ump called it a ball and I remember thinking 3-2 count he’s going to throw me a fastball middle middle and i barreled it so perfect I had no idea that I just hit my furthest hr by a long shot. I took off out of the box like I may have hit a double. I think that CCORE had a trampoline effect and I was so used to feeling the ball of the black magic or the ultra light but it felt nothing like the BM or UL. Love watching your videos and keep it up the great work and was wondering if you took the hottest bat ever made and gave it to a G. Stanton or Aaron Judge at Coors field how far would they be able to hit the ball? Trevor Story hit ball 520 in the hr derby at Coors field with an exit velo below 110 mph. Now a Stanton or Judge with a 30 degree launch angle with an exit velocity of 120 mph. How far would it travel. Judge hit a ball in Miami that statcast put at 513’ at sea level. I read somewhere Coors Field you add 10%. Would that same ball at Coors Field travel 564’? Just how far do you think the most powerful hitters on the planet could hit a ball with a drop 5 bat at Coors Field? Blaze Jordan hit a ball 500+’ when he was barely a teenager so would a Stanton or Judge just destroy the bat or would it travel another 100 to 150’ Could someone reach 600 to 700’ in high temperatures at Coors field? Joey Meyer hit one 582 with wood! What is the farthest possible home run?

I pitched against that. They used to teach us to put our gloves in front of our heads, just in case. I’ll never forget that sound.

Seeing the Redline brought back memories!

That Redline was our team bat when I played rec league ball. Loved the feel of that thing.

I LOVE the expressions on every ones face. Baseball was soooo Fricken FUN! I am shocked no one was MURDERED back in the day lol

Love your videos man keep it up brother

This guy has got a nice swing. Good ball player.

IMO, the Easton Redline is the hottest bat ever produced. I was hitting shots over 400ft at 15 years old lol. Also, an often forgotten and slept on bat, the Cryogenic Copperheads! They were hot AF out the wrapper and hit my first dinger on a big field with one.

impressive, very nice. now do the COMbat b2

I had that c core. I’ll say this of all the bats I’ve had. It was really hard to find the sweet spot but the Air attack 2 from tpx hit the furthest. I graduated high school on 2001.

Love the sound of these bats! It isn't so much a ping as it is a shrill, beautiful crack. Nothing else comes close.

“We actually have accurate measurements today” *measures in paces* 💀

This is what we wanted thank you bat bros 👍

As a very amature golfer it must feel fucking amazing to just absolutely melt a ball as hard as you physically can and hit it perfectly

Pitched in college against guys swinging -5 redlines in 1997 before the rules changed. Saw some close calls and plenty of big bombs. Think there was at least one pitcher killed that year which was no surprise

Z2K Redline XL1 CF8. 33 drop5. Those are monsters. Original z2k wrapped? It used to be more than 2grand usd here in Korea.

Hot Tip: Home Depot sells tape measures that do 500' or more.

Finally these bats are on batbros.

I hit a home run on that field to left center with the 2022 goods. The ball flies like crazy there

2:00 there out there measuring balls 😂

What 42 looks and feels like has a lot to do with how you take care of yourself. You can do MOST of what you used to do in your 40s, maybe even hit some highs with dedicated and disciplined training and diet. Basically, clean up your diet, greatly reduce if not entirely eliminate alcohol, focus your workouts, get your rest, use good equipment and keep the stress in your life to manageable levels and you'll live better and longer.

The lefty has a better swing. Guess that's what ages gets ya

The 1999 Redline Ccore was my baby in high school. Same as the 34/29 that was in this video. I still have her. That was so fun to watch!

Video idea: Get Jose Canseco to hit with this bat. He has some of the longest recorded and folklore homeruns ever!

i had a redline growing up it was my favorite. might still be in my folks garage - maybe i should get to digging...

The Redline is the most beautiful looking and sounding bat ever made.

Guys, please look for the Mizuno bx 701 world win - the gold one. Hideki Matsui used this in his school time playing.

Can you imagine back in the day if Canseco played around with these !

My sophomore year of high school was the last year of the drop 5. Every now and then you’d see someone get up to bat with a TPX, but 90% of kids swung an Easton bat, and those 2 bats in particular were(and still are) legendary.

I Live on the wasatch front in Utah and see these mountains every day beautiful backdrop and easy to take for granted but seeing them in this video makes me realize wow they really are something

I play hobby baseball in south korea and I've seen them, probably one of the most annoying bat to field against. Scares me everytime if a ball hit comes towards me.

The Easton Carbon Core was the best bar of all time. It like if the the Redline was more solid

Played college ball and hit with the Redline... fav bat ever! My coach gifted me one on my visit.. hahaha

These bats are sick! Great vid! Dude could swing👍🏻💪🏼

Just think how far the best pro hitters could hit the ball with those bats

Also the louisville slugger dynasty sl9d is crazy hot as well I have a 32/23.5 and it out pokes the drop 5 zen I have.

Those end caps are all wrong making the end-cut off also. I have a 33" and 32" Z2k, and somewhere an original... ORIGINAL C-Core in 33".. lmk if you want to try them out. Even the Redline has a different shape and cut vs. the originals. I had both the grey like yours and the black, but the sidewalls cracked on all. Those sticks truly were the friggin best ever made! Great work on all your videos guys, cheers

That swing is a piece of art 🖼️ right there ! Imagine if he was lefty

I have (2) 34/29 OG Redlines sitting in my garage from 1999/2000. I'm shocked that we didn't take off an pitchers heads back in the day.

Not even going to lie. My friend just got one for our league. A 2000 Z2K 33/28 and hit a grandslam 363ft first game! 😂 it's so much fun to use. Thanks for the review

Nice to see Timp in the background. I miss looking at it .

That is such a cool field

My uncle has the redline from when he swung it back in highschool

Is there any possibility that you guys could do a short video with exit velocity testing on the 20th anniversary edition of the Z 2K and redline?

My personal little league bat of choice was the Anderson Techzilla

I remember using the redline in high school in the 90’s unfortunately my hand eye coordination is crap so it didn’t give me an advantage at all

Saw this vid on the other guys channel but can’t wait for this one!!!

I had both of those bats growing up but my favorite was the connexion

Ya'll need to find the TPX bats of same Era. The green Genesis were awesome and give a nice ping when well hit.

Best RU-vidrs ever I have the string king metal2 love it y’all are what Decides what I get thank y’all.

these dudes are studs. No idea who they are but they got the swings.

I had a C-core and an orange reflex. Loved them, but never knew they had legendary pop. Wish I had kept them to sell 🤣

Back when I played in babe Ruth league in Taylorsville utah in 1999. The 'red line' definitely was the bat to use. But if I remember if it was cold rainy kinda game they sometimes would crack😪

See if u can get ur hands on the og zcore titanium -3. Its from about 2001. Its gold and blue

Even the Redline Softball bat was hot in their day.

I used my Redline playing Softball in the 2000's Bat was Hot as Hell !!!

Used to require a big set of balls to play 3rd base when we used these bats

I remember swinging that Redline in the spring of 1998, might be a year earlier that magic era.