The Savannah Bananas interest has officially reached a new level. The team that plays 'Banana Ball' which the organization describes as the "fastest and most entertaining game of baseball," played Saturday night in Tampa Bay at Raymond James Stadium, best known as home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
That made for one of the most obscure field dimensions with home plate placed in a corner and no temporary walls placed in the outfield.
🥲🥲🥲 pic.twitter.com/fWy0D09q40
— Savannah Bananas (@TheSavBananas) March 15, 2025
Good luck even flirting with a left-center-field outside-the-park home run here.
The Bananas also shared a time lapse video of the grounds crew getting the stadium ready.
And shoutout to the grounds crew for completing the transformation 👏pic.twitter.com/scjJFkt1L0
— Joe Pompliano (@JoePompliano) March 16, 2025
It was the team's first-ever game at an NFL stadium, and it was a sellout. The venue was actually not originally on the schedule for the Bananas, with the team slated to play its Tampa games at Tropicana Field. After the Trop suffered severe damage from Hurricane Milton, the Bananas moved things over to the NFL stadium in the area instead.
The Rays, meanwhile, will play their home games this season at George M. Steinbrenner field, the spring training home of the Yankees. Presumably it would have been tough to schedule the Bananas there in the home stretch of MLB spring training, making Raymond James Stadium a good alternative.
The Bananas, who call Savannah, Georgia, home, barnstorm across the country and have become a viral sensation over the last several years, primarily geared as an entertainment team toward young kids and families.
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