The Savannah Bananas are headed west.
San Jose’s Excite Ballpark, house of the Single-A Giants, will host the Bananas as they tackle their rivals, the Celebration Animals, on July 25 of subsequent 12 months.
The Bananas have garnered nationwide consideration for his or her fun-loving type of baseball, which incorporates gamers on stilts, choreographed infield dances and a variety of trick pitches. The Bananas’ pep band and dancers — from the umpire to the Banana Nanas senior dance workforce — borrow from different sports activities to maintain the sport full of life.
Savannah Bananas video games are wild 😂
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— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) September 21, 2022
“Banana Ball” additionally options unconventional guidelines to maintain the sport fast-paced and attention-grabbing for followers, together with no bunting, batters stealing first base and a two-hour time restrict.
The Bananas’ 2022 seven-stop U.S. tour was featured within the ESPN+ documentary sequence “Bananaland”. ESPN’s streaming arm additionally carries the Bananas’ video games. The workforce can be well-liked on TikTok, the place it has 3.4 million followers due to the wild movies created by the Bananas’ enjoyable type of baseball.
The rosters for each the Bananas and the Celebration Animals will likely be stuffed out by impartial professional gamers who will play alongside the 32-city 2023 tour. Together with the video games they’ll play in Savannah, the Bananas have 70 video games subsequent season, with 18 coming in opposition to “challenger” groups except for the Celebration Animals.
Former MLB gamers have gotten in on the motion with the Bananas, together with former Large Jake Peavy and former A Josh Reddick, a Savannah native. Final season, former All-Star pitcher Invoice Lee performed with the Bananas at age 75 and has mentioned he plans to return subsequent season.
Tickets should not on sale but, however you'll be able to join pre-sale alerts on the Bananas’ web site.
Look out 2023! We’ve received some massive issues in retailer for you on the Banana Ball World Tour. #GoBananaspic.twitter.com/L1ui0ti7ew
— Savannah Bananas (@TheSavBananas) October 4, 2022