WRIGLEYVILLE — The Savannah Bananas are bringing their barnstorming tour again to Chicago subsequent 12 months, and Wrigley Discipline will play host this time.
The Bananas, whose wacky model of baseball has captivated followers worldwide, will play three nights at Wrigley Discipline subsequent summer season, the Chicago Cubs introduced final week. The video games will happen July 24-26.
The brand new dates mark the second consecutive summer season the Bananas will play in Chicago. The workforce carried out for 2 sold-out nights at Sox Park in August, when greater than 182,000 folks sought to purchase roughly 81,000 tickets over the 2 nights.
On the video games at Sox Park, Sox legends Mark Buehrle and A.J. Pierzynski reunited whereas a Likelihood The Rapper live performance broke out on the sector.
The earlier Chicago performances had been exemplary of the Bananas model of baseball, which is doing for the game what the Harlem Globetrotters did for basketball.
Bananas video games have featured gamers performing backflips earlier than catches, batting on stilts and taking mid-game breaks for choreographed dances that usually embrace the umpires.
Bunting results in a direct ejection and walks are changed by “sprints,” the place all fielding gamers should contact the ball earlier than they’ll tag out a runner who took off on ball 4. Different zany guidelines embrace an additional inning “showdown” performed solely with a pitcher, hitter and one fielder. Any foul ball caught by a fan on the fly is an out. The league performs with yellow baseballs.
Followers can enter a lottery for an opportunity to purchase tickets to the Wrigley Discipline video games by clicking right here. Tickets begin at $35.
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