{"id":262717,"date":"2026-08-10T17:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262717\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T17:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:02:20","slug":"banana-ball-party-animals-players-visit-allentown-dunkin-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262717\/","title":{"rendered":"Banana Ball Party Animals players visit Allentown Dunkin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/08\/07\/plane-carrying-baseball-players-reportedly-hit-by-lightning-near-lehigh-valley-airport\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One day after lightning struck their plane as it was approaching Lehigh Valley International Airport,<\/a> players from the Party Animals exhibition baseball team, part of the Banana Ball Championship League, stopped by an Allentown Dunkin\u2019 to meet with fans.<\/p>\n<p>Dunkin\u2019 also earlier visited Lehigh Valley Reilly Children\u2019s Hospital to raise the spirits of a young patient before the game.<\/p>\n<p>To help kick off Banana Ball weekend at Coca-Cola Park, Dunkin\u2019 surprised Mas\u00f3n Jim\u00e9nez, an 8-year-old patient, with 10 tickets to the sold-out Banana Ball games, Dunkin\u2019 officials said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Dunkin at 3111 Lehigh St. is holding a fan meet-and-greet from 9 a.m.. to 11 a.m. Saturday. Players are behind the counter serving orders and engaging with fans for photos and autographs.<\/p>\n<p>On July 28, Dunkin\u2019 presented Jim\u00e9nez with oversized game tickets, doughnuts, appearances by Dunkin\u2019s mascot, Sprinkles, and other special surprises to create an unforgettable experience for him, his family and his care team at the hospital, part of Jefferson Health, according to Dunkin\u2019 and a Jefferson Health spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Mas\u00f3n a Lehigh Valley resident, is currently being treated for Leukemia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe surprise celebrates his strength and resilience while giving Mas\u00f3n and his family the opportunity to enjoy one of the summer\u2019s most anticipated sporting events and create lasting memories together,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One day after lightning struck their plane as it was approaching Lehigh Valley International Airport, players from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,182,139,726],"class_list":["post-262717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}