TNT Sports to Present Summer and Fall Savannah Bananas Games

TNT Sports’s networks and platforms will be ripe with Banana Ball this summer and fall as one of sport's fastest growing sensations returns to truTV.

truTV will serve up a bunch of Banana Ball action presented by Tropical Smoothie Cafe starting Saturday, August 16 from Rate Field — home of the Chicago White Sox — as The Savannah Bananas continue their World Tour of popular MLB stadiums throughout the season. All of TNT Sports’ coverage of Banana Ball will also be simulcast on HBO Max for all U.S. subscribers.

Eight consecutive weekends of TNT Sports’ exclusive Banana Ball coverage will also include stops at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Petco Park in San Diego, Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, T-Mobile Park in Seattle, and Daikin Park in Houston, along with a weekend series from Grayson Stadium, the Savannah Bananas’ home stadium.

This season will wrap up with the first-ever Tour Championship in early October. TNT Sports’ coverage of the multi-day tournament will feature all four teams vying for the inaugural Banana Ball title, with seeding decided by World Tour game results. The winner will be decided in the title game on Saturday, October 11.

Banana Ball’s brand of baseball includes choreographed team dances, over-the-top walk-ups by batters, epic scoring celebrations and more wacky moments that have taken social media by storm. All Banana Ball games feature The Savannah Bananas taking on The Party Animals, The Firefighters or The Texas Tailgaters. More information about Banana Ball can be found here.

Banana Ball joins truTV’s expanding offering of primetime sports programming, which centers on live games and event coverage of MLB, the NHL, the NCAA, the Big 12 and the BIG EAST, U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Soccer, Unrivaled, NASCAR, Roland-Garros, and more. The network also presents an assortment of culturally relevant and entertaining sports content throughout the year, including unscripted competitive shows such as Wipeout, featured sports movies and documentaries, scripted series (including the network premiere of Ballers this week), classic matches from HBO Boxing, among others.