The Savannah Bananas, the group that went viral taking part in a hilarious model of baseball, are coming this Sunday to a streamer close to you.
May there be a extra thrilling Fourth of July weekend, America? No. No, there couldn’t be.
Sunday at 12:30 p.m. native time, 3:30 p.m. Japanese, the Bananas have a rematch towards the Firefighters, the group they performed at Anaheim Stadium on the finish of Might. That sport will go down at Boston’s Fenway Park, house of the Crimson Sox, and might be streamed stay on the Roku Channel.
“We will’t wait to carry the fast-paced sport of Banana Ball to new followers everywhere in the nation on Roku!” Savannah Bananas proprietor Jesse Cole mentioned in a information launch. “And also you higher consider that we’ve bought some surprises in retailer for Fenway!”
Guess there’s little or no motive, besides perhaps having no web entry, to attend till the CW does its personal broadcast of the Bananas taking part in the Texas Tailgaters on July 27 at Residents Financial institution Park in Philadelphia.
“Banana Ball” — for many who don’t have TikTok, Instagram, Fb Reels, X or any Bananas-loving real-world buddies — incorporates humor, gymnastics, lip-syncs and snappy dance choreography in an exhibition baseball sport with guidelines that undoubtedly don’t match these of Main League Baseball (although lots of the gamers as soon as had MLB aspirations).
The Savannah Bananas, a minor league baseball membership, went on their first ever “World Tour” this yr, taking their distinctive model of baseball to numerous cities throughout America.
Solely the Bananas ship child races, a dancing umpire and backflips earlier than balls are caught within the outfield. Can’t get that in Oklahoma Metropolis. Plus the video games are restricted to 2 hours max, one thing even the much-loved MLB pitch clock can’t ship.
This yr, the group has bought out 18 main league ballparks, plus three soccer stadiums with capacities of greater than 70,000.
Tickets usually can be found solely by way of a lottery — and final time we checked the wait-list for that lottery, it was greater than 3 million names lengthy. Attempt to be part of it now and the Bananas web site will inform you positive, go forward, however be ready to carry your horses until subsequent season, my good friend. Final season’s video games drew 1,000,000 followers complete.
“There may be actually no sports activities expertise with the identical motion as a Savannah Bananas sport,” mentioned Joe Franzetta, the pinnacle of Roku Media’s sports activities division, within the information launch. “We sit up for utilizing the facility of our platform to amplify the sport on to each die-hard audiences and thousands and thousands of latest followers about to find one thing particular.”
As proprietor Cole instructed The Occasions again in 2022, “We’ve all the time been very clear about our aim. We exist to make baseball enjoyable.”
Of us with a Roku TV or who stream by way of a Roku machine ought to be good to go for Sunday’s free broadcast. The Roku Channel can be accessed on-line at TheRokuChannel.com and on iOS and Android units and numerous and varied good TVs.
And keep in mind to set your DVR to file the CW on July 27.
Former Occasions reporting fellow Anthony De Leon contributed to this report.
