Banana Ball will return to Huntington Park next summer. Banana Ball’s 2027 schedule lists two Columbus games, on August 6th and 7th. Game times haven’t been announced yet.
The lottery at BananaBall.com closes at 11:59 p.m. Eastern on October 31st. There’s no general on-sale. The lottery is the only official way to get tickets from the team. The help desk does say a host venue may hold back a few premium seats, such as suites and club seats, and sell those itself outside the lottery.
The Columbus dates are a two-night run between the Party Animals and the Texas Tailgaters, ABC6 reported. The Savannah Bananas themselves aren’t on the Huntington Park card, but they have two Ohio stops next year. They play the Loco Beach Coconuts at Cleveland’s Huntington Bank Field on June 5th and 6th, per Cleveland 19, and the Party Animals at Cincinnati’s Great American Ball Park on July 23rd and 24th, per the Reds’ announcement on MLB.com. Dayton’s Day Air Ballpark gets Banana Ball the same weekend as Columbus.
The Bananas made their Columbus debut at Huntington Park in May 2024 with a three-day stand. NBC4 reported those tickets sold out within hours of going on sale. Columbus Navigator previewed that first visit in 2023.
The lottery opened October 15th. Entries go through the official form at BananaBall.com. You’ll need a phone number that can receive texts and an email address.
Each person gets one valid entry, for one city. Submitting a second form doesn’t add a second city. The help desk says the team may ask you to confirm your preferred city and email, and if you don’t pick, only the first submission counts. Checking the box for “Special Events” interest doesn’t use up your one city. Family members can each enter and pick different cities, each with their own contact info. The team says it’ll only consider group tickets for people who joined the lottery list before October 31st and checked the box for group hospitality interest.
After you submit, the site shows a confirmation screen and sends a confirmation email, which the team says can take up to 24 hours. The team says to save your lottery submission ID, since you may need it later. The same email has a link for changing your city. Lottery status updates come this winter, the team says.
A random drawing will give winners the opportunity to purchase tickets. If your name is drawn, you can buy up to five. If you’re not lucky, the fallback is the Fans First Marketplace, the fan-to-fan resale side of the team’s Fans First Tickets platform, where other fans sell at face value closer to the game date.
The Bananas report that standard tickets start at $35 at its smaller venues. At MLB and larger stadiums they start at $40 and go up to $125. The help desk also says the listed price is the full price, with no fees added at checkout.
The lottery and Fans First Tickets, the team’s own ticketing platform, are the only official sellers. The team warns that listings on StubHub and Vivid Seats are often fraudulent and won’t be accepted at the event. The same goes for Ticketmaster. It also says the overwhelming majority of ticket offers on social media are scams.
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