White Sox Legends Relive Glory Days With Savannah Bananas: ‘This Is Awesome For Baseball’
The Savannah Bananas’ wacky take on baseball brought Mark Buehrle and A.J. Pierzynski back to Sox Park. Special guest Chance The Rapper performed, babies raced and fans loved every second.
CHICAGO — They backflipped. They boogied. They walked on stilts. They got the crowd to do jumping-jacks.
And then the Savannah Bananas let 2005 White Sox World Series champion Mark Buehrle pitch at Sox Park one more time.
“I won’t be able to wipe my ass with my arm for a week and a half,” said Buehrle, 46, recovering with a cold can of Coors Light in the dugout after the game.
Buehrle — who said he only plays first base these days in a softball beer league — gave up a hit but got the Bananas a key out on the way to a 3-2 win in front of a sold-out crowd Friday night of 40,000-plus fans, many who joined the Sox legend in wearing bright yellow, shamelessly, from head-to-toe.
“Not my color,” said Sox champion catcher A.J. Pierzynski, who caught for Buehrle in the World Series and now two decades later, in Banana Ball. “But this is awesome for baseball…the kids love it.”
