{"id":307570,"date":"2026-10-16T00:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307570\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T00:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:16:07","slug":"savannah-bananas-returning-to-pittsburgh-next-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307570\/","title":{"rendered":"Savannah Bananas returning to Pittsburgh next summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With labor strife hanging over the head of Major League Baseball, there\u2019s no guarantee the Pittsburgh Pirates will play at PNC Park next summer.<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn\u2019t mean there won\u2019t be baseball at the ballpark.<\/p>\n<p>The Savannah Bananas announced Thursday that they will return to Pittsburgh for games against the Indianapolis Clowns on Aug. 6-7 next summer.<\/p>\n<p>Specific ticket information has not yet been released, but the team is encouraging fans to sign up for a ticket lottery on its website, <a href=\"https:\/\/bananaball.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bananaball.com<\/a>, before Oct. 31.<\/p>\n<p>The barnstorming Bananas played a pair of sold-out games against the Texas Tailgaters at PNC Park in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Bananas play a crowd-pleasing brand of baseball that includes dance routines and comedy sketches, rewards trick plays, eliminates walks, records an out if a fan catches a foul pop and conforms to a two-hour time limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With labor strife hanging over the head of Major League Baseball, there\u2019s no guarantee the Pittsburgh Pirates will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-307570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307570","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=307570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}