25-02-2025
Savannah Bananas in Nashville: How do you get tickets? It's complicated
The Savannah's Bananas are coming to Nashville, but are you still able to get tickets?
Georgia's premier banana ball team, which started in 2015 wondering how they were going to pay the bills, has become a hit in the baseball circuit after upping their game to include viral dances, a twerking umpire and a player who plays on stilts.
Nashville is part of a circuit of away games around the United States each year displaying these trick shots, funny stunts and some crazy dance moves on and off the field during a game. This year the Bananas are going up against the Party Animals in May.
But don't get your hopes up about seeing them.
The widely appealing team draws crowds at every game, so much so that to just have a chance of purchasing a ticket you have to enter a lottery months before the season starts.
All you can do now is hope to try and score some next hope you have someone in your life who will surprise you with tickets.
Tickets for the ball team's game in Nashville on May 10, at Nissan Stadium, were selected via a lottery system that closed on Nov. 21, 2024, but there might be a chance to score tickets to future games next season.
Each year, the team has the Banana Ball World Tour Ticket Lottery List, which people can enter for a chance to purchase tickets to different games. The club warns that any tickets sold outside of their are likely to be fraudulent.
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The Savannah Bananas were once just a collegiate team, but have grown to start a whole new league.
Before the team's first game in 2016, the team had an overdraft account and the owners Jesse and Emily Cole had sold their home. The game changer? The team's name.
The name Savannah Bananas was met with national interest, and local ire, according to the team's history. But the name stuck and helped launch the team to national recognition, along with their antics on the field during play.
Since the first season, the Savannah Bananas have sold out every single game – over 200 and counting.
Banana ball is a bit different than your typical baseball game.
It's played at a much faster pace and usually has a flair for silly dramatics, but dramatics nonetheless. It also has an emphasis of continuous play, and not the traditional lengthy innings and downtime, and has 11 specific rules that differ from traditional ball. Here's a couple:
Instead of the typical run score, the games are scored by points. The team that scores the most runs during an inning earns a point until the final inning where each run counts as a point.
If a fan catches a foul ball, it counts as an out.
Batters can not bunt. If they do, it is an automatic ejection.
Expect the unconventional.
Those are just a few, but if you do head to a game expect gameplay very reminiscent of what the Harlem Globetrotters started decades ago.
This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Savannah Bananas in Nashville: How to get tickets? It's complicated
