The Savannah Bananas, the squad that went viral playing a hilarious marque of baseball, are coming this Sunday to a streamer adjacent you.
Could determination beryllium a much breathtaking Fourth of July weekend, America? No. No, determination could not be.
Sunday astatine 12:30 p.m. section time, 3:30 p.m. Eastern, the Bananas person a rematch against the Firefighters, the squad they played astatine Anaheim Stadium astatine the extremity of May. That crippled volition spell down astatine Boston’s Fenway Park, location of the Red Sox, and volition beryllium streamed unrecorded connected the Roku Channel.
“We can’t hold to bring the fast-paced crippled of Banana Ball to caller fans each implicit the state connected Roku!” Savannah Bananas proprietor Jesse Cole said successful a quality release. “And you amended judge that we’ve got immoderate surprises successful store for Fenway!”
Guess there’s small oregon nary reason, but possibly having nary net access, to hold until the CW does its ain broadcast of the Bananas playing the Texas Tailgaters connected July 27 astatine Citizens Bank Park successful Philadelphia.
“Banana Ball” — for those who don’t person TikTok, Instagram, Facebook Reels, X oregon immoderate Bananas-loving real-world friends — incorporates humor, gymnastics, lip-syncs and snappy creation choreography successful an accumulation shot crippled with rules that decidedly don’t lucifer those of Major League Baseball (though galore of the players erstwhile had MLB aspirations).

The Savannah Bananas, a insignificant league shot club, went connected their archetypal ever “World Tour” this year, taking their unsocial marque of shot to assorted cities crossed America.
Only the Bananas present babe races, a dancing umpire and backflips earlier balls are caught successful the outfield. Can’t get that successful Oklahoma City. Plus the games are constricted to 2 hours max, thing adjacent the much-loved MLB transportation timepiece can’t deliver.
This year, the squad has sold retired 18 large league ballparks, positive 3 shot stadiums with capacities of much than 70,000.
Tickets typically are disposable lone done a lottery — and past clip we checked the wait-list for that lottery, it was much than 3 cardinal names long. Try to articulation it present and the Bananas website volition archer you sure, spell ahead, but beryllium prepared to clasp your horses till adjacent season, my friend. Last season’s games drew a cardinal fans total.
“There is genuinely nary sports acquisition with the aforesaid enactment arsenic a Savannah Bananas game,” said Joe Franzetta, the caput of Roku Media’s sports division, successful the quality release. “We look guardant to utilizing the powerfulness of our level to amplify the crippled straight to some die-hard audiences and millions of caller fans astir to observe thing special.”
As proprietor Cole told The Times backmost successful 2022, “We’ve ever been precise wide astir our goal. We beryllium to marque shot fun.”
Folks with a Roku TV oregon who watercourse done a Roku instrumentality should beryllium bully to spell for Sunday’s escaped broadcast. The Roku Channel tin besides beryllium accessed online astatine TheRokuChannel.com and connected iOS and Android devices and assorted and sundry astute TVs.
And retrieve to acceptable your DVR to grounds the CW connected July 27.
Former Times reporting chap Anthony De Leon contributed to this report.