The Savannah Bananas’ Coors Field sellout was a much-needed change from the lowly Rockies

The Savannah Bananas brought a much-needed change to baseball fans in the Mile High City after they've spent the last few seasons watching the boring Rockies lose

BY TRENT FINNEGAN

Aug 11, 2025, 9:33 AM

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The Savannah Bananas came to Denver this weekend and sold out Coors Field on back-to-back days thanks to their electrifying antics, fan competitions and fun style of baseball, better known as Banana Ball. The two-day outing showed that baseball can be fun for fans in the Mile High City when they’re not rooting for the Rockies.

To be clear, the Bananas experience was an awesome sight to see. McGregor Square in Denver was packed to the brim with yellow as fans mulled around and showed what the city could look like on a nightly basis if the MLB team that played there knew what winning was.

Coors Field became the biggest MLB stadium that the team has played in throughout their “Banana Ball World Tour” in 2025. Their highest attendance mark came back in April when 81,000 people watched them play at Clemson’s Memorial Stadium.

Denver, you did not disappoint💛 We had former Rockies, Ubaldo Jiménez and Vinny Castilla, join us for a game as well as country artist, Chris Lane!

You all brought the energy a mile high up in the sky for our dances, scoring celebrations, and for when Ryan Cox's between the… pic.twitter.com/fCOf40ku0y

— Savannah Bananas (@TheSavBananas) August 11, 2025

For the people who go to the ballpark to put the radio broadcast in their ear and keep score on paper, the Bananas aren’t necessarily your speed. However, for all the families who like baseball throughout America, Banana Ball is right up their alley, and was a great change of pace from watching the Rockies get shelled night in and night out en route to becoming the worst team in baseball’s modern era. There was a lot of music and there was almost too much going on at certain points of the game, but that’s why so many people love this version of baseball, because changes America’s Pastime into something much more engaging.

The club even brought out two Rockies legends in Ubaldo Jimenez and Vinny Castilla to ignite the Coors Field crowd. While other ex-stars such as Troy Tulowitzki want nothing to do with the Rockies and their stadium, the appearance from both of these players on Saturday night were well-received.

Vinny Castilla just took an at bat with @TheSavBananas!!

It turned into a double trick play ground out! pic.twitter.com/cVAoObbVKc

— Banana Breakdown (@BreakdownBanana) August 10, 2025

Ubaldo Jiménez back on the mound at Coors. @TheSavBananas #Rockies pic.twitter.com/btrQWNUf3E

— Guerilla Sports (@guerillasports_) August 10, 2025

The Bananas also made sure to throw some Denver ties into their performance over the weekend, including a race with the ‘Blucifer’ horse outside of Denver International Airport and a small South Park reference with Eric Cartman’s rendition of Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” as opposed to the regular version. Fans appreciate that kind of stuff, especially when the team they usually travel to Coors Field to see gives them so little to grasp onto and appreciate.

While the Bananas were putting on a show in Denver, the Rockies were down in Arizona getting embarrassed by the Diamondbacks in a loss that saw the deficit blossom to as much as nine runs in the fifth inning. Not a soul in that stadium on Sunday was worried about what their so-called MLB team was up to down in the desert.

The weekend was fun for baseball fans in the Mile High City. Was it normal baseball? No. Would everyone enjoy watching Banana Ball? No, but seeing how packed Coors Field was, how a bunch of people were walking to the ballpark with their glove ready to potentially catch a foul ball, how the energy felt like no sporting event anyone has been to before, was a phenomenal switch from Dick Monfort’s same old boring Rockies.

There is something related to the Savannah Bananas to watch out for roughly 18 months from now. It seems that the MLB is headed for a nasty lockout in the 2027 season as the owners and commissioner Rob Manfred want a salary cap while the players don’t (Can you blame the players? They should go get every penny they can get.). Manfred’s recent interaction with Philadelphia Phillies star Bryce Harper showed exactly how far apart the players’ opinions are from the owners, and if there’s no Major League Baseball in 2027, Banana Ball could be the only form of baseball around. The “league” they’re playing in is slowly starting to expand, and could have a massive platform to take off from if the MLB holds a limited season in a couple years.