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The Savannah Bananas are on the transfer.
After promoting out baseball stadiums everywhere in the nation in 2024, they’ve set their websites on subsequent season, asserting subsequent season’s schedule on the 2025 Banana Ball World Tour Metropolis Draft on Thursday night time.
In 2025, the league will develop to 4 groups with the addition of the Texas Tailgaters, and never solely will they play in 18 Main League Baseball stadiums, they’ll take over fields in three soccer stadiums―two of them within the NFL and Clemson Loss of life Valley.
However that is not all. In 2026 Banana Ball will develop right into a six-team league with a 60-game nationwide schedule.
Hoping to see a recreation subsequent 12 months? Here is a have a look at the schedule.
The Bananas introduced 30 dwelling video games, and residential opening weekend is slated for Feb. 21. Here is a have a look at their dwelling video games:
February
- February 21-23: Get together Animals
March
- March 7-9: Get together Animals
- March 21-23: Get together Animals
April
- April 11-13: Get together Animals
- April 17-18: Get together Animals
Could
June
- June 19-21: Get together Animals
July
August
- August 21-23: The Firefighters
Have a look:Highlights from the Savannah Bananas Banana Ball recreation at Fenway Park in Boston
The place will the Savannah Bananas journey to in 2025?
In 2025, the Savannah Bananas will head to18 MLB stadiums, a bump from the 5 visited final 12 months in addition to three soccer stadiums.
The NFL stadiums set for Banana Ball in 2025 are Nissan Stadium in Nashville, TN, dwelling to the Tennessee Titans; and Financial institution of America Stadium in Charlotte, NC, dwelling to the Carolina Panthers. The workforce will even go to Clemson’s Memorial Stadium.
The stadiums the workforce will journey to in 2025 embrace the New York Yankees, Boston Purple Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Baltimore Orioles, Houston Astros, Seattle Mariners, San Diego Padres, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago White Sox, Colorado Rockies, Washington Nationals, Cincinnati Reds, Kansas Metropolis Royals, St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Angels, Atlanta Braves, Tampa Bay Rays and Miami Marlins.
Background:On Our Radar: Savannah Bananas hope to “shock the world” with large bulletins at Oct. 3 draft
How will the Savannah Bananas adapt to soccer fields?
Soccer stadiums are identified to have a few of the finest atmospheres in sports activities, Savannah Bananas proprietor Jesse Cole. However the soccer stadiums additionally present a chance to lean into Banana Ball’s novelty: the power to alter the sport.
Adapting Banana Ball to a soccer area might imply altering outfield fence distances or area dimensions, modifications that would make the video games extra thrilling by bringing extra homeruns or nearer outfield seats, Cole stated.
“They’re the biggest stadiums within the nation, and we try to entertain and handle probably the most quantity of followers we will,” Cole stated.
MLB pedigree:Going Bananas: Offered-out stint at Fenway a bucket record merchandise for Savannah Bananas proprietor, gamers
Who’re the Texas Tailgaters, the brand new Banana Ball workforce?
The Texas Tailgaters are the latest workforce in Banana Ball, slated to affix the league in 2025.
The identify is a nod to one of many issues Texas sports activities followers are identified to do nicely: tailgating.
“We now have this large imaginative and prescient for the best pregame in sports activities that we’re going to construct there,” Cole stated.
Banana Ball 2025: Tour Championship
The fourth workforce makes the ultimate piece of one more addition to Banana Ball in 2025: a championship event with video games at Grayson Stadium. Cole dubbed the season-ending occasion as a Tour Championship.
That championship is a lead as much as the first-ever skilled Banana Ball league slated for 2026. The origins of a possible league have roots in Banana Ball’s inception, Cole stated.
Cole stated he noticed how Banana Ball had the potential for each recreation to be aggressive, distinctive and new every night time.
“To do this you must have extra groups competing towards one another, creating storylines,” Cole stated. “That was the imaginative and prescient.”
Katie Landeck is a trending reporter.
Evan Lasseter is the town and county authorities reporter for the Savannah Morning Information. You possibly can attain him at [email protected].
(An replace was made to this story to mirror our editorial requirements.)
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