Savannah Bananas at PNC Park: How to Get Tickets

If you have never seen the Savannah Bananas in person, the first thing to understand is that this is not a normal baseball game. The team is bringing its version of the sport, known as Banana Ball, to PNC Park for a two-game series against the Indianapolis Clowns on Friday, August 6 and Saturday, August 7, 2027. The games are billed as 'The Greatest Show in Sports,' and the rules back up the claim: they are won by points rather than runs, there is a strict two-hour time limit, bunting is banned and results in an automatic ejection, and foul balls caught by fans count as outs. Batters cannot leave the batter's box without taking an automatic strike, and walks are replaced by 'ball-four sprints.'

The spectacle is the point. Expect trick plays, choreographed dances, singing, epic scoring celebrations, a man in a banana suit, and a senior citizen dance team called the Banana Nanas. The players themselves dance, and the whole thing is designed to keep the action moving without the usual dead time of a baseball game. The organization, Fans First Entertainment, now runs six independent professional teams in the Banana Ball Championship League, and the Bananas finished their 2026 season with 624 trick plays across 21 cities. The league's motto, 'Fans First. Entertain Always,' is not just marketing; it is the entire premise.

Getting tickets is the part that catches people off guard. There is no simple box office purchase here. To have a chance at the 2027 Pittsburgh games, you have to join the Ticket Lottery List before it closes at 11:59 p.m. ET on October 31, 2026. Joining the list does not guarantee you a ticket; it puts you in a random drawing that takes place before the event, and if your name is pulled, you will be told how to buy available tickets. Pirates season ticket holders, suite holders, and corporate partners get a special presale, and the only tickets available to the general public before the lottery drawing in February are suite and hospitality spaces, which require a $1,000 deposit to secure a spot on the waitlist.

The venue is part of the appeal. PNC Park, the home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, opened in the spring of 2001 and holds 38,362 spectators along the shore of the Allegheny River, with views of the downtown skyline. It is an intimate, classic-style ballpark that pairs well with the Bananas' brand of baseball. For context, the team started in 2015 as a college summer team at Historic Grayson Stadium in Savannah, Georgia, and only left the Coastal Plain League in 2022 to play Banana Ball year-round. Since then, they have built a following of millions across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, and the 2027 season is set to take the game outside the United States for the first time, with stops in Mexico and Canada.

If you are planning to go, the clock is the thing to watch. The lottery list closes at the end of October, and the 2027 player draft happens on Wednesday, October 28, so the roster you will see in August is still being built. It is a family-friendly event that sells out in minutes, which is exactly why the lottery exists. Sign up early, and if you are lucky, you will get to see the yellow uniforms and the dancing players in person.