“Keep it fun, keep it quick”: The barnstorming Bananas brought 42,000 to Nationals Park on Saturday night.
The Savannah Bananas’ Dakota Albritton, who plays on stilts, hustles into first base Saturday night at Nationals Park. Just before 2 p.m. Saturday, Princess Potassia — wearing her signature bright yellow dress, white gloves and a sparkling gold tiara — serenaded the crowd gathered outside the center field gate at Nationals Park with a baseball-inspired take on “Be Our Guest” from “Beauty and the Beast.
The Bananas, a former summer collegiate team in the Coastal Plain League that went out on its own in 2022, play by their own set of rules, which were helpfully explained for any first-timers before Saturday’s 4-3 win over the Firefighters, another exhibition team owned by Bananas founder Jesse Cole. Bunting, walks, mound visits and stepping out of the batter’s box are prohibited, and foul balls caught by fans in the stands count as outs.
Arnoto brought in a homemade sign for Bananas left fielder and former Nationals signee RobertAnthony Cruz, known as Coach RAC to his large number of fans on social media, where he posts baseball coaching videos. Before his second at-bat, the viral video Cruz posted to TikTok after he surprised his dad, Ron,played on the scoreboard. Cruz saluted the crowd before making his way to home plate, where his dad greeted him with a hug.
“I hadn’t seen the Bananas until last week when we were watching ESPN and they were on,” said Hedlund, who has never been to a Nationals game. “I didn’t know they were that big.” Myersville, Md., resident Jim Assurian and his family, who have attended a half-dozen Bananas games since first seeing the team in Savannah in 2021, worked Saturday’s game as ticket scanners.
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