Yankee Stadium is hosting the Savannah Bananas in the Bronx on Saturday and Sunday, with the Party Animals on the other side of the field for two games that are already sold out on the team’s official website. The first game starts at 7 pm ET on Saturday, and the second begins at 3 pm on Sunday.
The appetite for a ticket has not cooled. Resale seats are listed at around $50 and up on secondary marketplaces, a sign of how far Banana Ball has spread beyond its original novelty and into an event fans plan around.
That demand matters because this is the Savannah Bananas’ second appearance at Yankee Stadium. Last year, they played a two-game series there against the Firefighters, split the games and drew more than 45,000 fans across the weekend.
Jesse and Emily Cole started the Savannah Bananas in 2016, and the operation has since grown into six teams under the Banana Ball banner. The league is scheduled to play in 45 states and 75 stadiums this year, with the championship set for October.
The sport is built to move fast and keep the crowd involved. In Banana Ball, points replace runs, teams get one point for scoring the most runs in an inning except in the last inning, when every run counts as one point. There are no walks or bunts, games have a two-hour maximum and no new inning can start after that, and fly balls caught by fans are outs.
The organization said in its first Fan First Report, released at the start of this year, that it sold 2.2 million tickets in 2025. It also said the teams are now selling out football stadiums and attracting more than 80,000 people for some games, while the Savannah Bananas Instagram account has more than 4 million followers and the league and all teams together have more than 10 million.
That scale is the pressure point now. What began as a quirky team has become a touring spectacle that can fill Yankee Stadium twice in one weekend, and the question for the league is no longer whether people will come. It is how long Banana Ball can keep growing before the circus becomes the standard.
